Countryside sunset outside of Bengal symbolizes the value of clean air and clean environment for good business.[/caption]Asim Boral----Winter is coming and the dead leavess are falling, and the atmosphere is changing to a cityjungle in India . The city is clogged with a cloud of poisonous gas in the morning which remains until noon. The sun is invisible. A huge army of vehicles is seen jammed in narrow roads. It is a day of city life, a day unkind to its residents and a place where negativity reigns.
The environment is toxic, and that toxicity is everywhere. LARRYWALAS(street sellers) sell their daily products to save their lives for another day. A huge number of cars are parked on the roads making it look like there is no road to commute. People cannot walk on a footpath covered by millions of migrants coming from the villages and taking shelter in the open sky. Babies born on the streets cry for milk on the footpath. It is not a place where humans can live without harm.
The worst thing about the city, the kind I describe here in India, is when you encounter someone with a convoluted mind, swaggering and grumbling because of the living conditions. The city is that proverbial concrete jungle, a negative environment.
The cities need transformation. Life should be easy going with the gentle wave of spring, mountains that criss-cross the countryside and the plains, making a beautiful green village with the enchanting beauty of flora and fauna, and of course the mind of a pure soul who cares for you and others selflessly, simply and humbly.
In the city, each person can do his/her part to make a new city village and an example for others. Plant at least four to five pots of green trees on a balcony and on the roof tops. It's a start in the right direction. People have to want to change, and the concrete jungle can be changed to a place of peace.
No corporate manager thinks of shifting office in rural India and expect to have the facilities it needs. With the Internet revolution, corporations prefer to remain in cities, but these cities are often dead in many ways and need redefinition as a result.
What would that redefinition look like in India. As a writer and concerned advocate, if I were to be given the job to redefine cities, I would develop 5000 villages in India with the kind of facilities for industries that can be shifted to villages and that would include a farming model in such villages as well. The developed villages would have new technology, clean, man-made roads, good schools and a college that includes a technical institute. Food would be first class and healthy, with the type of eatery that would almost allow food to be catered.
The problem of growing vegetables and other food needs could be solved with solar energy and rain water harvesting. That would solve energy and water needs.
50000 developed villages can generate more employment in many areas to include inclusive farming and eateries alone apart from other employment in IT Industries as well . Having recently been to Chennai, I have seen the huge pool of taxi runs to feed employees and the traffic james that result. By turning to a rural0type of model, a village of cleanness of environment and purpose, air pollution can be avoided and technology can flourish. Business with more than 20 lakh employment can boost more than 200 billion dollar if shifted to developed villages rather than cities.
It may be a dream in this man's mind, but it is a dream that if turned into reality could make a difference in India and potentially other countries where pollution has overcome human function and the core of living. It is possible if we but work toward a different model for India and other congested places, that might make a difference in the growth of technology and the welfare of others.
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