‘Developing
and Establishing Holistic Self-Reliance from Within’
Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and
skills.
Life intelligence is this
ability to generate a pleasant and self-reliant individual, productive community, which is
sustained from ‘within’ with the talent to create a purposeful and respectable
existence while promoting encompassing holistic well-being.
Project Host : aimyoga
Project Location :
Bodhvilas, Kamdipada, Kasara(E), Thane
Maharashtra, India
Contact
wisehamletindia@gmail.com
+91-7057499519 /
+91-9867379694
Introduction
Intelligent
Village is Project to develop rural area of India not just to make it modern,
but to develop from within by its own strength by purposeful use of
environment, natural resources and its lifestyle.
To
be self-reliant village is requires a holistic approach toward its lifestyle.
Hence
this project undertakes 8 major activities not just requiring investment from
outside for development, but create sustainable profit from within by itself.
Background of Project
1. Location for Pilot Project
-
Maharashtra, Thane district, Kasara, Next to National reserved
forests
=> 100km from Mumbai, 60 from Nashik and Thane City, 20km
from Igatpuri famous for Dhammapda Vipasana Meditation
Center, Mahindra & Mahindra Automobile Factory located 60km
from Trambakeshwara Temple
2. Characteristic of the Village Region
- 9 month of
Dry and sunny consisting of all sub continental
seasons with 3 months of heavy
Monsoon
- Kasara has
very low productivity in agriculture,
- Lands
consist of Murram but rich soils with stones usual to
Deccan Plateaus
- Lack of
water harvesting facility hence difficult environment
for agriculture
- Strong sun
light with high luminescence and heat
3. Conversation with Project Host
- Our Family of city dwellers with a metropolitan life style has
come to inherit a sizeable tract of land in an aboriginal hamlet.
This hamlet happens to be
only a couple of hours from the metropolis of Mumbai.
Over the past 3 decades of
enjoying these green lush scenic surrounding, with almost perennial streams we
came to become inhabitants of this rural setup over last few years.
4. View from Within
Assessment
from within is quite different than the view from outside especially a city.
The aborigines or Adivasis (aborigines)
were initially a different lot, quite unaware of the movements of the urbanized
modern society.
Living happily with the thick
forests of the Sahayadri Range, sufficient water and not directly affected by
the urban movements.
Once, quite self-sufficient
through agriculture and forest produce for their livelihood, the folks were easy
and smiling in a world of seasonal cyclic life not knowing the concept of 9 to
5 existence.
But since we have become
inhabitants, we came about some realizations and discoveries of the situations,
upheavals and Shifting Paradigm.
Important Observations for Project
1. Major
observation
- Lifestyle
of village
- Education of children & parents
- Livelihood
- Environment & Climates
- Natural resources
2. Breaches
and Chasms
- Most distinct, the perennial water sources have now trickled
down and the lush surrounding have become patchy and bald.
- Agriculture is not so prosperous and the only occupation
available to this rather multi-talented lot is one of ‘manual labor only”.
- Women folk labor hard to make ends meet accompanied with water
woes and lack of facilities including a road.
- Even primary Healthcare is expensive and unreliable, available
far from the hamlet.
- The children are struggling with literacy, education and
certified skillsets as demanded by the suburbanization.
- The youth has become aware and enamored by the Television screening
modern amenities. With no means of steady occupation and employment, these gaps
in possibilities often lead to anti-social patterns.
- Lack of education and development has left
them with large tracts of land, unproductive, with nine months of sun including
a scorching summer.
The aborigines are now a despondent lot.
Lack of guidance, direction and education robs them of the all possibilities,
whether modern or of their own unique natural neighborhood and its inherent
strengths.
3. Opportunity
‘Necessity
is the mother of all Inventions’
Development is advancement through maturity with intrinsic
understanding of oneself, the community and the environment. Progress or Growth
for the sake of growth is the philosophy of cancer, more than often leading to
skewed development.
Intelligent Village is a community inspired by self-reliance and self-sustenance,
within or promoting a ‘Clean Development Mechanism’. The village instead of
being completely reliant on outside support for its very existence and being disheartened
can transform itself into one of self reliance with the ability to contribute
to a healthy citizen, society and nation at large.
Vision :
To
establish a Integrated Intelligent Village or a Wise Hamlet
The quality of life we choose to exist is an
inside job, one of contemplation and inspiration from within and the surroundings.
The intelligent village appreciates this wholesomeness of life and its various
promoting factors and facets. Astuteness is complete nourishment of these
various facets whether it is food, water, health and education, complemented
with an enabling occupation etc. It perceives the possibilities and advantage
of being itself, ‘one-off, unique’. Our location, situations its residents are
all unique, so are the problems, possibilities and their solutions.
“Excellence is an Attitude, an Inside Job”
This village can appreciates the individual, community,
culture, motherland and the environment. Wisdom sees the common link in their
mutual well-being and existence. The vision of wholesome development is being
encompassing and enduring.
After studying and enlisting the current and
community related issue we see the areas of thrust are
Greetings and Regards .......
We welcome your comments and suggestion to further improve our insights and implementation.
We welcome your participation with us in the project in various capacities as philanthropists, engineers, doctors, social engineering, architects, educationist and what you may believe will support the cause of the rural development and emancipation.
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