PURA Providing Urbanamenities in Rural Areas

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PURAProviding Urban-amenities in Rural Areas

• Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
• The President of India

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A Rural Development Program

• Announced by The President on the eve of 54th
  Republic day of India
• Aims at providing amenities similar to urban
  areas to the rural people
• Cluster based approach to achieve uniform
  development for rural
• PURA is to be implemented in 4,130 rural clusters
  across the country in the next five years

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PURA

• Identification of village clusters with growth
  potential
• Creating following types of connectivity within
  them
• Road, Transport and Power
• Electronic (IT, Telecom)
• Knowledge( Educational Training Institutes)
• Market Connectivity

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Road, Power Connectivity

• Fast movement for rural to fetch services
• Better transportation implies efficient
  transaction with outside market and processing
  centers
• Power enables improvement in input and output of
  their livelihood

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Electronic Connectivity

• Source of IT services e-commerce for marketing
  their goods for rural
• Can help reduce a lot of time-wastage due to
  bureaucracy
• IIT Roorkee coordinating with government agencies
  to develop e-connectivity

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Knowledge Connectivity

• Good education for children
• Trainings for farmers
• Agro based Industries
• Improve literacy

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Market Connectivity

• Together with previous factors, kisaans can get
  best price for their crop by better access to
  markets
• Enables other artisans and craftsmen too to
  improve their business

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Involvement of other organizations

• IIT Roorkee is taking keen interest in this
  project
• Post Offices are viewed as potential hubs for
  providing these four connectivity
• Call for emerging entrepreneurs

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Comparison of RISC and PURA

• Similar cluster based approach by both models
• PURA calls for an economic model to become viable
  which RISC provides
• RISC gives importance to geographical location to
  cover more people while PURA looks for centers
  with growth potential