The Need for Designing And Building Smart Rural Markets and Villeges In Rohtas District of Bihar: A Geographycal Study

Abstract

Smart city is a new concept in India originated by our PM Narendra Modi. He has anticipated that cities of our country need to the smarts in which people residing in smart cities must avail

• Adequate water supply,
• Assured electricity supply,
• Sanitation, including solid waste management,
• Efficient urban mobility and public transport,
• Affordable housing, especially for the poor,
• Robust IT connectivity and digitalization,
• Good governance, especially e-Governance and citizen participation,
• Sustainable environment,
• Safety and security of citizens, particularly women, children and the elderly, and
• Health and education.

For this he has declare to provide 500crores to each smart cities for 5 years. It is a very positive & progressive approach for the development of our country but authors of this research paper are of opinion that cities are already concentrated for a lot of people. The development of smart cities will tend to accumulate more and more people which would create much larger cities. Such development of cities would provide more urban problems. Hence there is a need for designing and building smart rural market and villages in our country. Therefore the main purpose of the paper is to suggest the benefits of the building smart rural markets and villages. For this Rohtas district has been taken as a case study where 2082 villages and 121 rural markets are available.