The Rurban Mission aims to develop 300 clusters across India over 3 years to drive economic, social and infrastructure development in rural areas. These clusters, called Rurban clusters, will be developed by providing economic opportunities, skills training, entrepreneurship development and basic infrastructure. The clusters will have populations between 5,000-50,000 people and will be selected using an objective analysis of demography, economy, transportation and other factors. The mission aims to balance rural-urban development by creating smart villages with urban amenities while retaining rural character. It seeks to curb migration to cities by improving opportunities and quality of life in rural areas.
Development of a cluster of villages that preserve and nurture the essence of rural community life with focus on equity and inclusiveness without compromising with the facilities perceived to be essentially urban in nature, thus creating a cluster of "Rurban villages".
Large parts of rural areas in India are not stand-alone settlements but part of a cluster of settlements, which are relatively proximate to each other. These clusters typically illustrate potential for growth, have economic drivers and derive locational and competitive advantages. Hence, making a case for concerted policy directives for such clusters. These clusters once developed can then be classified as 'Rurban'. Hence taking cognizance of this, the Government of India, has proposed the Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission (SPMRM), aimed at developing such rural areas by provisioning of economic, social and physical infrastructure facilities.
The Shyama Prasad Mukherji RURBAN (Rural Urban) Mission is the latest social sector programme of approximate 5000 Cr has been launched by GOI to bridge the gap between the cities and the villages on infrastructure” while preserving the ethos of the villages”.
India is a developing country. As the population grows rapidly, the development of cities is imminent. Urbanisation as an outcome of this development is being addressed here. Two case studies of medium towns are done underlining the factors of growth determining the structure of development. The objective is to learn from these experiences and make generalisations that could be helpful for the future development of many other similar towns and for developing a framework for balanced urban development in India.
Development of a cluster of villages that preserve and nurture the essence of rural community life with focus on equity and inclusiveness without compromising with the facilities perceived to be essentially urban in nature, thus creating a cluster of "Rurban villages".
Large parts of rural areas in India are not stand-alone settlements but part of a cluster of settlements, which are relatively proximate to each other. These clusters typically illustrate potential for growth, have economic drivers and derive locational and competitive advantages. Hence, making a case for concerted policy directives for such clusters. These clusters once developed can then be classified as 'Rurban'. Hence taking cognizance of this, the Government of India, has proposed the Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission (SPMRM), aimed at developing such rural areas by provisioning of economic, social and physical infrastructure facilities.
The Shyama Prasad Mukherji RURBAN (Rural Urban) Mission is the latest social sector programme of approximate 5000 Cr has been launched by GOI to bridge the gap between the cities and the villages on infrastructure” while preserving the ethos of the villages”.
India is a developing country. As the population grows rapidly, the development of cities is imminent. Urbanisation as an outcome of this development is being addressed here. Two case studies of medium towns are done underlining the factors of growth determining the structure of development. The objective is to learn from these experiences and make generalisations that could be helpful for the future development of many other similar towns and for developing a framework for balanced urban development in India.
Rurban- Redefining Rural Architecture,
What is Rurban, why we need rurrban, National Rurban Misssion, its categories, Selection criteria, rurban clusters, interventions, role of architects.
Citywide slum upgrading towards the implementation of the SDG 11.1 - Ms. Kerstin Sommer (Slum Upgrading Unit Leader Programme Manager PSUP) - Third Expert Meeting of the Regional Slum Upgrading Working Group (RSUWG) - 29th. of November to the 1st. of December 2015 in Laleh International Hotel, Tehran, I.R. of Iran
Presentation makes an attempt to brief about the genesis, brief of preparing master plan for an urban settlement to rationalise the growth and development of any urban centre
The policies of urban development and housing in India have come a long way since 1950s. The pressure of urban population and lack of housing and basic services were very much evident in the early 1950s. In some cities this was compounded by migration of people from Pakistan. However, the general perception of the policy makers was that India is pre-dominantly an agricultural and rural economy and that there are potent dangers of over urbanisation which will lead to the drain of resources from the countryside to feed the cities.
National Slum Development Program (NSDP) Sumit Ranjan
National Slum Development Program (NSDP)
Housing, 8th sem, B. Arch.
amount, beneficiaries, constraints and recommendations, discription, drawbacks, facilities, financial, funding, government, housing, introduction, managerial, nature, objectives, slums, technical
Rurban- Redefining Rural Architecture,
What is Rurban, why we need rurrban, National Rurban Misssion, its categories, Selection criteria, rurban clusters, interventions, role of architects.
Citywide slum upgrading towards the implementation of the SDG 11.1 - Ms. Kerstin Sommer (Slum Upgrading Unit Leader Programme Manager PSUP) - Third Expert Meeting of the Regional Slum Upgrading Working Group (RSUWG) - 29th. of November to the 1st. of December 2015 in Laleh International Hotel, Tehran, I.R. of Iran
Presentation makes an attempt to brief about the genesis, brief of preparing master plan for an urban settlement to rationalise the growth and development of any urban centre
The policies of urban development and housing in India have come a long way since 1950s. The pressure of urban population and lack of housing and basic services were very much evident in the early 1950s. In some cities this was compounded by migration of people from Pakistan. However, the general perception of the policy makers was that India is pre-dominantly an agricultural and rural economy and that there are potent dangers of over urbanisation which will lead to the drain of resources from the countryside to feed the cities.
National Slum Development Program (NSDP) Sumit Ranjan
National Slum Development Program (NSDP)
Housing, 8th sem, B. Arch.
amount, beneficiaries, constraints and recommendations, discription, drawbacks, facilities, financial, funding, government, housing, introduction, managerial, nature, objectives, slums, technical
26 May 2014 Narendra Modi was sworn in as the Prime Minister of India, who acquired the general elections with a massive mandate, right earnestly started working tirelessly to correct economic slowdown, containing inflation, getting rid of corruption and introducing financial inclusion program and so on,
Yet 67 years of misrule made people numb, and were entirely disconnected with the government, were at the clemency of the politicians taking the freebies they had at the time of elections.For votes the minorities were pampered with quotas and reservations. The oppressed remained in the same posture, turned into voting machines.
Modi’s interaction with the masses is something, which the people never experienced earlier, and made them understand that they are the principal constituents of the country and the government and the political leaders are there solely to accomplish their welfare.
Modi set the government, with clear-cut instructions to the ministers, and bureaucracy to hold along the developmental programs. Modi embarked on his international expedition to strengthen ties with countries for trade facilitations and significant issues like terrorism, climate change and so on. His activities in the international arena yielded substantial results and ignited new hope for sustained partnership in the development.
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lacked adequate planning and management due to
poor coordination between multiple funding streams
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priority and viewed in isolation from the need for
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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation is an agency of the Government of India responsible for urban poverty, housing, and employment programs. It is involved in national policy decisions and coordinates with Indian central ministries, state governments, and central sponsor programs. The Ministry was created in 2004 after splitting it from the Ministry of Urban Development. The government, in 2017, merged the urban development and housing and urban poverty alleviation ministries as the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA). The Government of India has launched various programs since its independence, such as some of the five year plans, to alleviate poverty and address the widening income gap, both, amongst the upper and lower classes of society, and amongst the rural and urban parts of the country. For instance, the "Eighth Plan policy guidelines envisages integrated approach to alleviation of urban poverty and servicing the urban poor with basic facilities so that their quality of life improves. The scheme could not help in preventing growth of new slums.
While newly launched programs like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Food Security Act, Mid-day Meals and Bharat Nirman Yojana have demonstrated success in the initial stages, their performance over the long-run still remains to be seen. The shortsightedness of the Indian government often leads it to launch populist programs that may not necessarily work well. Low-hanging fruit like increasing worker's minimum wage can go a long way in achieving the goal of poverty alleviation, but are yet to be taken up in spite of reminders from leading economists.
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This study provides the information of the government projects and schemes for rural development and also helps to know the government initiatives to develop the rural areas.
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Leaders are often faced with ethical conundrums(a confusing and difficult problem or question). So how can they determine when they’re inching toward dangerous territory? There are three main psychological dynamics that lead to crossing moral lines.
There’s omnipotence: when someone feels so aggrandized and entitled that they believe the rules of decent behavior don’t apply to them.
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An incompetent person is someone who is
Functionally inadequate or
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Mindset is a mental attitude that determines how we interpret and respond to situations.
Dweck has found that it is your mindset that plays a significant role in determining achievement and success.
A mindset refers to whether you believe qualities such as intelligence and talent are fixed or changeable traits.
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Story of Katalin Karikó, a researcher who won the Nobel prize for medicine for her work on modifying the RNA molecule to avoid triggering a harmful immune response is a classical example of mindset.
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A theory is a based upon a hypothesis and backed by evidence.
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Personality theorists should study normal individuals
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1- Personality is an abstraction formulated by a theorist.
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” Emotions are complex psychological states involving three distinct components: a subjective experience, a physiological response, and a behavioral or expressive response”
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In 1972, psychologist Paul Ekman suggested that there are six basic emotions that are universal throughout human cultures: fear, disgust, anger, surprise, joy, and sadness.
In the 1980s, Robert Plutchik introduced another emotion classification system known as the wheel of emotions. This model demonstrated how different emotions can be combined or mixed together, much like the way an artist mixes primary colors to create other colors.
Plutchik proposed eight primary emotional dimensions: joy vs. sadness, anger vs. fear, trust vs. disgust, and surprise vs. anticipation.
These emotions can then be combined to create others, such as happiness + anticipation = excitement.
In 1999, Ekman expanded his list to include a number of other basic emotions, including embarrassment, excitement, contempt, shame, pride, satisfaction, and amusement
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Something has gone wrong or
Someone has wronged you.
It is typically characterized by feelings of
Stress,
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Irritation.
Anger is a perfectly normal response to frustrating or difficult situations.
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Anger can range in intensity, from a slight annoyance to rage.
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Negative or irrational patterns of thinking.
Simply ways that Impostor Syndrome convinces us to believe things that aren’t really true.
Inaccurate thought patterns that
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Is created due to a cycle of abuse and positive reinforcement
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Manipulate .
To be abusive there must be a consistent pattern of abusive words and bullying behaviours that Wear down a person’s Self-esteem and Undermine Their mental health.
Most common in married relationships,
Mental or emotional abuse can occur in any relationship—including among
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Family members and
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There seems to be an association between a person’s attachment characteristics early in life and in adulthood, but the correlations are far from perfect.
Many adults feel secure in their relationships and comfortable depending on others (echoing “secure” attachment in children).
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Borderline personality disorder, characterized by a longing for intimacy and a hypersensitivity to rejection, have shown a high prevalence and severity of insecure attachment.
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Secure
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Angry,
Aggressive,
Argumentative, and
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It is a diagnosable mental health condition that is characterized by patterns of violating
Societal norms and
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It's estimated that around 3% of school-aged children have conduct disorder and require professional treatment .
It is more common in boys than in girls.
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ODD is more than just normal childhood tantrums
Frequency and severity of ODD causes difficulty at home and at school.
Children with ODD also struggle with learning problems related to their behavior.
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Childhood-onset ODD:
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More likely to survive to adulthood.
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Rurban- 2
1. RURBUN-2
Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission to drive economic, social and infrastructure
development in rural areas
In an ambitious bid to transform rural areas to economically, socially and physically
sustainable spaces, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today
approved the Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission (SPMRM) with an outlay of Rs. 5142.08
crores.
The Mission aims at development of rural growth clusters which have latent potential for
growth, in all States and UTs, which would trigger overall development in the region. These
clusters would be developed by provisioning of economic activities, developing skills & local
entrepreneurship and providing infrastructure amenities. The Rurban Mission will thus
develop a cluster of Smart Villages.
These clusters would be well delineated areas with planned layouts prepared following
the planning norms (as laid down in the State Town and Country Planning Acts/similar Central
or State statutes as may be applicable), which would be duly notified by the State/UTs. These
plans would be finally integrated with the District Plans/Master Plans as the case may be.
The State Governments would identify the clusters in accordance with the Framework for
Implementation prepared by the Ministry of Rural Development. The clusters will be
geographically contiguous Gram Panchayats with a population of about 25000 to 50000 in plain
and coastal areas and a population of 5000 to 15000 in desert, hilly or tribal areas. There would
be a separate approach for selection of clusters in Tribal and Non-Tribal Districts. As far as
practicable, clusters of village would follow administrative convergence units of Gram
Panchayats.
For the selection of clusters, the Ministry of Rural Development is adopting a scientific
process of cluster selection which involves an objective analysis at the District, Sub District and
Village level, of the demography, economy, tourism and pilgrimage significance and
2. transportation corridor impact. While the Ministry, following this analysis, would provide a
suggestive list of sub districts to the State, the State Governments would then select the clusters
following a set of indicated principles included in the Framework for Implementation.
The mission aims to create 300 such Rurban growth clusters over the next 3 years, across
the country. The funding for Rurban Clusters will be through various schemes of the
Government converged into the cluster. The SPMRM will provide an additional funding support
of upto 30 percent of the project cost per cluster as Critical Gap Funding (CGF) as Central Share
to enable development of such Rurban clusters.
To ensure an optimum level of development, fourteen components have been suggested
as desirable for the cluster, which would include; Skill development training linked to economic
activities, Agro Processing/Agri Services/Storage and Warehousing, Digital Literacy, Sanitation,
Provision of piped water supply, Solid and liquid waste management, Village streets and drains,
Street lights, Fully equipped mobile health unit, Upgrading school /higher education facilities,
Inter-village road connectivity, Citizen Service Centres- for electronic delivery of citizen centric
services/e-gram connectivity, Public transport., LPG gas connections.
The States would prepare Integrated Cluster Action Plans for Rurban Clusters, which
would be comprehensive plan documents detailing out the strategy for the cluster, desired
outcomes for the cluster under the mission, along with the resources to be converged under
various Central Sector, Centrally Sponsored and State Sector schemes, and the Critical Gap
Funding (CGF) required for the cluster.
In addition to the Critical Gap Funding, proactive steps have been taken to ensure the
success of the mission with adequate budget provisions for supporting the State Government
towards project development, capacity building and other institutional arrangements at the state
level.
The Mission envisages institutional arrangements both at the State and Center to ensure
smooth implementation of the Mission. The Mission also has an Innovation budget towards
facilitating research, development and capacity building.
3. The scheme through development of rurban growth clusters aimed at catalyzing overall
regional growth, would thus simultaneously benefit the rural as well as urban areas of the
country, by achieving twin objectives of strengthening rural areas and de burdening the urban
areas hence leading to balanced regional development and growth of the country.
LAUNCHING
On 21 Feb 2016 Prime Minister Narendra Modi
launched the ambitious 'Rurban Mission' for developing 300 villages across the country as urban
growth centres amid his assertion that his government is for the poor, dalits and other oppressed
sections of the society.
Noting that the mission was aimed at curbing migration of youth from villages to cities, he
targeted the previous dispensations, saying nobody had thought about planning and providing
facilities even as urban areas continued to expand and slum clusters continued to come up
because of migration.
While launching the ambitious scheme in this remote tribal area of Chhattisgarh, PM Modi said a
"huge country" like India cannot have proper economic development unless even the remotest
places are developed as growth centres and provided with urban facilities and "good life" like
education, healthcare and internet while retaining the "rural spirit".
"This government is for the poor, dalits, adhivasis, oppressed and deprived sections of the
society. It is for the person standing in the last row," he said.
Listing out various schemes including Swacch Bharat and Rurban Mission, PM Modi said these
are all aimed at bringing positive changes in the lives of the poor people. "This is the only way
that will benefit the country and we have started marching on this path," he said.
Under the 'Rurban Mission', he said 300 rural centres, catering to at least four adjoining villages
each, will be developed as urban clusters with modern facilities.
100 such centres are targeted to be developed this year itself, the Prime Minister said at the event
which was also attended by Chief Minister Raman Singh and Union Rural Development Minister
Birendra Singh among others.
4. "There will be big change in quality of life. Pressure on cities will reduce and new cities will be
developed, which will be planned and have good economic activity. I am sure crores and crores
of people will benefit from this," he said.
"People in villages have been sending their children to cities for good life, education, hospitals,
internet. But in the cities, jhuggi jhompris have been coming up as people continued to migrate
from villages. Nobody thought about planning, providing facilities...So even going to cities
became difficult.
"Should we then leave such people to their fate? Should we compel people to live in jhuggi
jhompris? We cannot. That is why we came up with this 'Rurban Mission'," the Prime Minister
said.
He said if such a programme had been launched earlier, so many years would not have been
wasted in developing the tribal belts of the country.
"There are small villages where even the doctor does not go," PM Modi said, adding the Rurban
Mission will at least help ensure that urban level healthcare reaches the adjoining villages of
such rural areas.
On the occasion, he also launched a 'Jan Aushadi Bandaar' campaign for providing cheap
medication to people.
Explaining why he decided to launch such major programmes in a "remote area", the Prime
Minister said it was part of his endeavour of taking governance out of Delhi to the midst of
people and villages.
In this context, he took a dig at his predecessors, saying "earlier, the governments had the habit
of doing such programmes in Delhi's Vigyan Bhavan and used to get 24-hour publicity from
media because of friendship."
He said his endeavour of taking government to the people had ensured a new direction to
development and "with the blessings of the public, development will touch new heights".
PM Modi felicitated some villagers for extraordinary work in Swachh Bharat campaign,
including a 104-year-old woman Kunwar Bai who had sold her goats to build a toilet, and said
such activities needed to be highlighted prominently.
"I tell the national media also, if you don't show my speeches, it is ok but you should tell the
nation about people like Ma Kunwar Bai," he said.