Multi-function Community Centers in Rural Areas

In the absence of basic facilities in our rural areas, we need to create them with the lowest possible cost, maximum possible utilization, highest possible accessibility and widest possible involvement.

The functions should include,

1. Literacy for all, ranging from infants to adults, both genders, housed in the same building but on time sharing basis, employing paid and voluntary teachers residing in the neighborhood,
2. Arts and crafts training, creation, and performing,
3. Primary health care, provided on subscription basis, with a combination of resident and visiting staff,
4. Communication by mobile and land lines, cyber cafes,
5. Ware housing and trading for local products and produces, their inputs like seeds, fertilizers, raw materials, implements,
6. Banking and finance, including self-help and micro-finance,
7. Information like, population, education level, health and immunization data, accessibility and transport, local produces, incomes, climate data, soil and water quality, land utilization, drinking water quality, current level of private and public sanitation, a minimal library and reading room with audio-visual facilities,
   
8. Sports,
   
9. Transport, and
10. Energy supply

Networks of such community centers should be wide spread in the rural areas of all the States the country, such that one of them is accessible to the entire rural population.

To be completed