Spectacular Villages Of India
Villages cover a major part of India. The beautiful landscape of India, the green fields and the clean air can be experienced in the villages of India. It is wrong to think of villages to be left behind after their having a great variety of things to provide. The thought about poverty and lack of education has been waved off by these spectacular villages of India.
The village of Hiware Bazar is known as the village of millionaires. Located in one the drought prone area, in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, Hiware Bazar is an Indian village that has transformed its history by being possibly the richest village in India, with the record of 60 millionaires in the village and barely any poor. Located 90 km away from Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, Mawlynnong was declared as the Asia’s cleanest village in 2003 by Discover India Magazine.
The village with all the urban facilities, The Punsari village, located in Gujarat, is providing its villagers much more than what even some urbanites can hope for. This village provides 24-hour Wi-Fi connectivity, CCTV cameras in the primary school, solar powered lamps, an independent bus service and clean drinking water at a nominal cost of Rs4 for a 20-litre drinking water can and much more.
Pothanikkad village, situated in Kerala is the first in the Indian village to achieve 100% literacy rate. St. Mary’s High School is the oldest high school in the village, from where many prominent people in the society have been educated.
Dharnai – The solar powered village of India is a village in Bihar, which is one of the poorest states in India, has developed its own solar-powered system for electricity, beating 30 years of darkness. – Chappar is an Indian village that distributes sweets when a girl is born. This village in the state of Haryana has a woman sarpanch – Neelam. This woman sarpanch of Chappar village has made it her life’s mission to change the attitude of the villagers towards women and she succeeded.
Ballia is a village in Uttar Pradesh. This Indian village had a terrible problem. The drinking water that the villagers were drinking contained arsenic, which was the cause of serious skin problems and even many physical deformations. This village has been successful to beat the problem of arsenic poisoning.
The problem of India being considered as unsafe has been proved wrong by the village of Shani Shingnapur. Located in Maharashtra, a village that defies every newspaper report ever read. Touted as the safest village in India, this place is known for its lack of doors to houses. Not just that, there is no police station in the village.
These villages have changed the way how the villages were looked at. The untidiness, illiteracy, misconceptions, and all such things no more exist, making India a better place to live.