Going Forward | Rural 2025 | India Rural Colloquy
Aug 1, 2021 05:30 PM
About TRIF
India, in the near term, will continue to be overwhelmingly rural and the ground realities on education, healthcare, and governance are unlikely to change without urgent, concerted efforts. Accelerating inter-generational mobility in villages is critically linked to India’s growth aspiration and building a just and equitable society. Accelerated social mobility is also an unrequited aspiration in villages. A combination of mutually inter-linked and reinforcing actions related to ascent (education, job), preventing descent (health shocks), improving growth and equity (economic development, gender equality, nutrition), and strengthening governance and public service delivery is required to transform opportunities in rural India. Challenges in rural and transition zones became most poignantly visible in the returning migrant crisis. The pandemic revealed the vulnerability of rural economy — broken agricultural supply chains, lack of local jobs as also existing social mechanisms of resilience — capacity of communities and economy to withstand shocks. Covid-19, as a once-in-a-lifetime black swan moment, has laid bare existing vulnerabilities, brought new risks, broken dreams and also new pathways of growth and transformation.
Going Forward | Rural 2025 | India Rural Colloquy
Soumitra brings together sector and thought leaders to help us visualize Rural India in 2025 land how changes in larger glocal society, economy, technology are going to influence opportunities in villages. The deliberations will also build on pathways required to meet the aspirations of rural communities and ensure that villages are places of equal opportunity where their residents can lead a life of dignity.
