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Smart Village is a concept adopted by national, state and local governments of India, as an initiative focused on holistic rural development, derived from Mahatma Gandhi's vision of Adarsh Gram  (Ideal Village) and Swaraj (Self Reliance). Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi launched Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) ) or(SAANJHI) on October 11, 2014, Gandhi's Birthday, in addition to "Smart Cities" and "Digital India ", as a development program for India. The Parliamentarian's Model Village Scheme main goal is for each Member of Parliament (MP) and Minister (MLA) to adopt a rural village and develop it into a model by 2019 under the SAGY guidelines.  The vision of SAGY is a integrated village development plan, encompassing Personal, Human, Social, and Economic dimensions.

Historical Reference
Smart Village India gets its foundation from Mahatma Gandhi's vision of Adarsh Gram (model village) and Gram Swaraj (Village self-rule/independence). Gandhi in two texts, Hind Swaraj and Gram (Village) Swaraj, promotes the concept of integrated rural development to impact majority of the population, as the primary initiative after India Independence in 1947. Mahatma Gandhi outlines his complete vision for model village in the following passage :

''[https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.freshdesk.com/data/helpdesk/attachments/production/6000599015/original/Chapter-1-Mahatma_gandhi-vision-of-a-model-village.pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAJ2JSYZ7O3I4JO6DA%2F20161205%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20161205T154203Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=1291a9ab8ba6a609c950de795ab8f4972430a9ad2eb83fe84cc09391be400160&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=Host&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf "An ideal Indian village will be so constructed as to lend itself to perfect sanitation. It will have cottages with sufficient light and ventilation built of a material obtainable within a radius of five miles of it………………..The village lanes and streets will be free of all avoidable dust. It will have wells according to its needs and accessible to all. It will have houses of worship for all; also a common meeting place, a village common for grazing its cattle, a co-operative dairy, primary and secondary schools in which industrial education will be the central fact, and it will have panchayats for settling disputes. It will produce its own grains, vegetables and fruit, and its own khadi. This is roughly my idea of a model village." (Harijan, 9-1-1937; Vol. 64#: Pg. 217-18.) "That village may be regarded as reformed…where the largest possible number of village industries are flourishing, in which nobody is illiterate, where the roads are clean, there is a fixed place for evacuation, the wells are clean, there is harmony among the different communities, and untouchability is completely absent, in which everybody gets cow’s milk, ghee etc., in moderate quantities, in which nobody is without work, and which is free from quarrels and thefts…"'' (Letter to Munnalal Shah, 4-4-1941; Vol. 73#: Pg. 421) “My idea of village swaraj is that it is acomplete republic, independent of its neighbours for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others in which dependence is a necessity. Thus every village’s first concern will be to grow its own food crops and cotton for its cloth. It should have a reserve for its cattle, recreation and playground for adults and children. Then if there is more land available, it will grow useful money crops, thus excluding ganja, tobacco, opium and the like. The village will maintain a village theatre, school and public hall. It will have its own waterworks, ensuring clean water supply. This can be done through controlled wells or tanks. Education will be compulsory up to the final basic course. As far as possible every activity will be conducted on the cooperative basis. There will be no castes such as we have today with their graded untouchability". (Harijan, 26-7-1942; Vol. 76#: Pg. 308-9.) "The task before every lover of the country is how to .. reconstruct the villages of India so that it may be as easy for any-one to live in them as it is supposed to be in the cities." (Harijan, 7–3–1936)'']

Values
Far beyond mere infrastructure development, SAGY aims at instilling certain values in the villages and their people so that they get transformed into models for others. These values include:


 * Adopting people’s participation as an end in itself – ensuring the involvement of all sections of society in all aspects related to the life of a village, especially in decision-making related to governance.
 * Adhering to Antyodaya – enabling the “poorest and the weakest person” in the village to achieve well-being.
 * Affirming gender equality and ensuring respect for women.
 * Guaranteeing social justice.
 * Instilling dignity of labour and the spirit of community service and voluntarism.
 * Promoting a culture of cleanliness.
 * Living in consonance with nature –ensuring a balance between development and ecology.
 * Preserving and promoting local cultural heritage ix.Inculcating mutual cooperation, self-help, and self-reliance.
 * Fostering peace and harmony in the village community.
 * Bringing about transparency, accountability, and probity in public life.
 * Nurturing local self-governance.
 * Adhering to the values enshrined in the Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Duties of the Indian Constitution.

Objectives
The main objectives of SAGY are:


 * To trigger processes which lead to holistic development of the identified Gram Panchayats.


 * To substantially improve the standard of living and quality of life of all sections of the population through:
 * 1) a.	improved basic amenities
 * 2) b.	higher productivity
 * 3) c.	enhanced human development
 * 4) d.	better livelihood opportunities
 * 5) e.	reduced disparities
 * 6) f.	access to rights and entitlements
 * 7) g.	wider social mobilization
 * 8) h.	enriched social capital


 * To generate models of local level development and effective local governance which can motivate and inspire neighbouring Gram Panchayats to learn and adapt.


 * To nurture the identified Adarsh Grams as schools of local development to train other Gram Panchayats.

Vision
Holistic development of a model village encompassing the following key dimensions:

Personal development

 * Inculcating hygienic behaviour and practices.
 * Fostering healthy habits including daily exercise and games.
 * Reducing risk behaviour- alcoholism, smoking, substance abuse, etc.

Human Development

 * Universal access to basic health facilities consisting of health card, medical examination.
 * Total immunization.
 * Balancing the sex-ratio.
 * 100% institutional delivery.
 * Improving nutrition status for all, with special focus on children, adolescent girls, pregnant women, and lactating mothers.
 * Strong focus on the special needs of Persons With Disability (PWD), especially children and women.
 * Universal access to education facilities up to Class X and retention.
 * Conversion of schools into ‘smart schools’. Smart schools will have IT enabled classrooms, e-libraries, web based teaching and will make all students e-literate required for providing quality education.
 * Adult literacy
 * E-literacy
 * Village libraries including e-libraries

Social development

 * Activities for promotion of voluntarism like Bharat Nirman Volunteers.
 * Building the capacity of the people to fully participate and contribute to local development.
 * Activities for honouring village elders, local role models especially women, freedom fighters and martyrs.
 * Activities for violence and crime free villages such as:
 * Setting up Citizen Committees
 * Sensitization, especially of youth
 * Village sports and folk arts festivals
 * Having a village song to instill a sense of pride among the people.
 * Celebrating ‘Village Day’
 * Proactive steps for inclusion and integration of socially excluded groups, especially Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

Economic Development
-Organic farming
 * Promoting diversified agricultural and allied livelihoods, including livestock and horticulture, through:

-Soil health cards

-Crop intensification such as SRI

-Setting up of seed banks

-Collection and value addition to Non Timber Forest Produce, Livestock development including Gobar Bank, cattle hostel

-Livestock development including Gobar Bank, cattle hostel

-Micro-irrigation -Agro-service centres

-Post-harvest technology applications
 * Rural industrialization like:

-Micro-enterprises

-Dairy development and processing

-Food processing

-Traditional Industries


 * Skill Development of all eligible youth for self-employment and placement
 * Village Tourism including eco-tourisme.

Environmental Development
-Providing toilets in each household and in all public institutions and ensuring their proper use
 * Activities for a clean and green village consisting of:

-Appropriate solid and liquid waste management
 * Roadside plantations
 * Tree plantation in accordance with local preferences in homesteads, schools and public institutions – including green walkways
 * Social forestry
 * Watershed management especially renovation and revival of traditional water bodies
 * Rainwater harvesting- rooftop as well as others
 * Reducing local pollution of air, water and land

Infrastructure -Basic amenities and services

 * Pucca houses for all houseless poor/poor living in kutcha houses
 * Drinking water, preferably treated piped water with household taps
 * Internal all weather roads with covered drains
 * All weather road connectivity to the main road-network
 * Electricity connection to all households and street-lights including from alternative sources of energy, especially solar
 * Pucca infrastructure for public institutions- Anganwadis, schools, health institutions, Gram Panchayat Office and libraries
 * Civic infrastructure including community halls, buildings for SHG federations, playgrounds and burial grounds/crematoria
 * Village markets
 * Infrastructure for PDS outlets
 * Micro mini banks /post offices/ATMs
 * Broadband connectivity and Common Service Centres
 * Telecom connectivity
 * CCTVs in public places

Social Security

 * Pensions for all eligible families- old age, disability and widow
 * Insurance schemes like Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana
 * Health insurance- RSBY
 * PDS- universal access to all eligible households

Good Governance

 * Strengthening of local democracy through strong and accountable Gram Panchayats and active Gram Sabhas
 * E-Governance resulting in better service delivery
 * Provision of UIDAI cards to all
 * Ensuring regular and punctual attendance of government and panchayat staff
 * Time bound service delivery in line with Department’s Citizens Charter
 * Holding of Mahila Gram Sabhas before every Gram Sabha
 * Holding of a Gram Sabha at least 4 times a year
 * Holding of Bal Sabhas every quarter
 * Proactive disclosure of all information pertaining to the implementation of the programme in the public domain and through wall-writing, notice boards in the local language. This should necessarily include the list of beneficiaries, item-wise budgets and expenditure.
 * Gram Panchayat acting as an information facilitation centre
 * Timely redressal of grievances filed by people, such that:
 * 1) Grievances of all nature to be submitted to the Gram Panchayat /Charge Officer and dated receipt to be given
 * 2) Grievances to be redressed within three weeks along with written reply
 * 3) Institutionalization of regular open platforms for airing of grievances and their redressal, coordinated by the Gram Panchayat

Implementation by States
State implementation and success stories are available at saanjhi.in. Please post any Smart Village accomplishments for the following participating States of India:
 * 1) ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS
 * 2) ANDHRA PRADESH
 * 3) ARUNACHAL PRADESH
 * 4) ASSAM
 * 5) BIHAR
 * 6) CHANDIGARH
 * 7) CHHATTISGARH
 * 8) DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI
 * 9) DAMAN AND DIU
 * 10) DELHI
 * 11) GOA
 * 12) GUJARAT
 * 13) HARYANA
 * 14) HIMACHAL PRADESH
 * 15) JAMMU AND KASHMIR
 * 16) JHARKHAND
 * 17) KARNATAKA
 * 18) KERALA
 * 19) LAKSHADWEEP
 * 20) MADHYA PRADESH
 * 21) MAHARASHTRA
 * 22) MANIPUR
 * 23) MEGHALAYA
 * 24) MIZORAM
 * 25) NAGALAND
 * 26) NOMINATED
 * 27) ODISHA
 * 28) PUDUCHERRY
 * 29) PUNJAB
 * 30) RAJASTHAN
 * 31) SIKKIM
 * 32) TAMIL NADU
 * 33) TELANGANA
 * 34) TRIPURA
 * 35) UTTAR PRADESH
 * 36) UTTARAKHAND
 * 37) WEST BENGAL

Resources
http://support.saanjhi.in/

Websites
saanjhi.gov

digitalindia.gov

smart.ap.gov.in

smartvillagesforum.com

mkgandhi.org