I found a particularly interesting question on Quora
"How much money should i have to adopt a village and develop it?"
to which I answered this
"First you need money to lobby every government bureaucrat of the village to get licenses, no objection certificate, consent ruling party & opposition party of Panchayat, majority, minority, etc. When you finished with that and if you got left with any money, you can go for development. Please note now you only got Permission to do development.
Now get ready for the Real game of development. Where you decide on which aspect you need development, you have to go for formalities all over again with of course lobbying.And by the time you finished doing this, you have no money to even feed your self.
Congratulations! You lost all money and done nothing but fed bureaucrats. This is India you cannot adopt a village with only money. If you want to do some good Educate the people of your village the development will follow on its own. Spend all of your money on educating them. Making roads, hospitals and drinking water is all secondary. If you don't have money educate them yourself that would do some people good."
Now get ready for the Real game of development. Where you decide on which aspect you need development, you have to go for formalities all over again with of course lobbying.And by the time you finished doing this, you have no money to even feed your self.
Congratulations! You lost all money and done nothing but fed bureaucrats. This is India you cannot adopt a village with only money. If you want to do some good Educate the people of your village the development will follow on its own. Spend all of your money on educating them. Making roads, hospitals and drinking water is all secondary. If you don't have money educate them yourself that would do some people good."
I mean when talking about development why do everyone only sees infrastructure, which makes the lives easy and why don't everyone concentrates on Education. An Educated Citizenry can bring out development on their own. If you arrange states on the basis of literacy rate, you will find that there is always more sustainable uniform level of development where the literacy rates are higher. I am not talking about metro cities like Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore etc but talking about overall development of the state or the country not just a particular area or city.
A sustainable development is the only thing that matters because it does not deteriorates with time but it increase as the people living in it becomes more educated. The education lays the foundation of development and not the infrastructure. And it is the lowest cost for development to be paid because educated citizenry will be more productive and more inclined towards social values.
Enjoy reading and be open to the things that world has to offer.
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