Introduction
More than 60 years of independence has passed by yet the dream of equitable
growth evades us. Measures have been taken and implemented to achieve this
dream. Government, Corporates, Social Organisation everybody has contributed
its share in realising the equitable growth. Still there exists a huge gap between
rural and urban India. In this paper we aim to identify the major areas where
development is to be done to fill this gap and in effect removing the division.
Here we also try to find out what innovations Information Technology can use
in these areas and achieve the growth objective.
Reasons for “The Gap”
In this modern age Information has become a powerful tool. Access to
information and its proper usage contributes significantly to growth. Urban
India has access to information. It is connected with the outside world and thus
can use the knowledge available for its growth whereas rural India does not
have proper access to the information. Lack of proper education has
incapacitated them to understand the power of information. So they are
underutilising this powerful tool and hence the gap exists. Also the geographic
and social fragmentation presents hindrance to commercial access of various ITenabled
services.
Factors for Development
To reduce the gap between rural and urban India growth of rural people is
needed and the most important component of this growth is infrastructure
development. India being a predominantly agricultural economy requires
strongest protection and development of its agricultural resources. So
infrastructure development centring agriculture will play a crucial role in the
development of India. The impediments which are to be removed by
infrastructure d ...