A case study of students’ skill development through the project carried out for sustainable development of rural area for transformation to urbanization

Abstract

Vishwakarma Yojana is one of the Gujarat government's initiative designated as a pilot project to facilitate rural people with required infrastructure as good as urban people. The world is growing rapidly nowadays, accordingly the living standards of the society are improving which leads to the development of multidisciplinary sectors. This case study is carried out at village Ambardi located in Jasdan tehsil in Rajkot district of Gujarat state, India. It is located approximately 80km towards east from district headquarters Rajkot city. The detailed development plan has been proposed for the village by providing different facilities in unlike categories such as physical infrastructure (Water tank, Roads and other), Social Infrastructure (Health, Community Hall and other) and Sustainable Infrastructure (Biogas plant, solar street and other) which leads the urban people get attracted with the rural people. Generally, the people living in the villages are working as a farmer in major, so their living standards are not leveled to the rural progress. Providing such amenities in the village, retention ratio can be improved and eventually control the migration. It also helps in increasing the livelihood and lifestyle of the people living in the village, which is the ultimate aim of this study. Through such Project, industries can also be developed nearby rural area, which will increase the jobs of the villagers itself and the surrounding area, and this is the successful way to increase the prosperity of Village and ultimately increase GDP of the country. Significant improvement in students’ interpersonal skills and employability is observed after taking feedback from students after completing task. Keywords— Rurbanization, Vishwakarma Yojana, Village Development, problem identification, Skill Development