Science-Society-Setu for #AatmaNirbharBharat

Q3 Rural tourism can be planned near handicraft hubs. Few days back, Textile Department announced development of some places as handicraft villages. There tourists can not only enjoy the village life but they can buy locally produced handicraft items also. It can help in reaching out to person sitting at last strata through revival of rural economy and local artisans. Village tourism will generate employment locally and make villages #AatmaNirbharBharat by strengthening social infrastructure

Q3 Growing trend in Rural Tourism can bring the changes in villages. CBOs in villages can coordinate with tour operators. Tourists can be taken in groups to villages where they shall stay in huts and are served with local food delicacies. They can be entertained by village singers and dancers. Tourists can also take part in these cultural activities. Tourists can be taken to local sightseeing tours also. But it shall not be commercialized to an extent that the villages loose their identity.

Q3 to extend benefits of technological development to man sitting at last strata, new technologies shall be made affordable while making it more user friendly. It is found that when a new product is launched, its cost is increased while including features which may not be useful to everyone. But as there is no option available, people are supposed to buy costly products with unnecessary features. For example many features of mobiles are not used even once by most users in entire life cycle

Q3 Hon'ble PM during Mann Ki Baat talked about efforts of Mr Patidar from MP who has made community based organisation to connect about 4000 farmers to empower them. PM not just appreciated individual but gave a message to people that individual efforts also can change lives of thousands. It is amazing to know about such individual efforts. We have several success stories around us. हमें यह नहीं सोचना होगा कि मैं अकेला क्या कर सकता हूं। बल्कि यह विश्वास करना होगा कि मैं अकेला क्या नहीं कर सकता।

Q3 समाज के अंतिम छोर पर बैठे व्यक्ति तक सुविधाएं पहुंचने में भ्रष्टाचार बहुत बड़ी बाधा है। जिन विभागों पर भ्रष्टाचार दूर करने की जिम्मेदारी है वहां भी भ्रष्टाचार है। जो नागरिक भ्रष्टाचार दूर करने का प्रयास करता है वह खुद किसी ना किसी केस में लपेट दिया जाता है। समस्या का निकट भविष्य में समाधान मुश्किल है। लेकिन हर बुराई का अंत होता है। इसमें भी Science ही Society के बीच Setu बनेगा और उम्मीद है कि भ्रष्टाचार का भी एक दिन अवश्य अंत होगा।

Q3 Our society has developed Political Temper than Scientific Temper. It is because all TV channels discuss politics only all days 24X7. There centre of discussions is politics. Whatever government does, they look it with political lense. Government shall come with a guideline that makes it mandatory for every TV channels to show science related debates and programs at primetime for at least 1 hour daily. This shall help in advancing Science & Technology capacity of community-based organisations

Q3 सरकार बहुत सारी योजनाएं किसानों के लिए चला रही है। बहुत योजनाओं का तो किसानों को पता ही नहीं चलता। किस सरकारी योजनाओं का लाभ कैसे लिया जाए इस जागरूकता को लाने का काम community based organisations कर सकते हैं। CBOs को नयी तकनीकों का और उनसे होने वाले फायदों की जानकारी भी दी जानी चाहिए ताकि वह किसानों को सही जानकारी साझा कर सकें और उसका प्रशिक्षण दे सकें।

Q2 Our aim is to increase yield to make India #AatmaNirbharBharat in agricultural products and make farming profitable for farmers. For this farmers can use new technology to grow unseasonal vegetables and fruits by controlling temperature, moisture and soil conditions. There is good demand of unseasonal fruits and vegetables in India and they can fetch good returns to farmers

Q2 किसानों को आधुनिक तकनीकों का प्रयोग कर ज्यादा फसल पैदा करने के साथ आमदनी बढ़ाने के लिए दूध डेयरी या मुर्गी पालन जैसे कार्य करने होंगे। नहीं तो छोटे होते खेतों से परिवार की जरूरतों को पूरा करना मुश्किल होगा। तटीय इलाकों के किसान PMMSY मत्स्य संवर्धन योजना का लाभ उठा कर मछली पालन भी कर सकते हैं।

Q2 As the farm size reduces with division in family, any level of productivity increase may not suffice to get an output which alone can meet the family requirements of farmers. PM has several times mentioned this aspect and advised the farmers to start dairy and poultry farming to generate additional income. The role of emerging technologies would be to reduce the time which farmers spend on conventional farming so that farmers can get time for these activities.