Abstract
Purpose: Villages are the backbone of the nation and a smart village means such a village that can provide various services needed in day-to-day life to the villagers effectively and efficiently. The overall objective of this research is to assess the practicability of the smart village in the hilly region of Nepal with the case of a Sandakpur Rural Municipality (SRM). Design/Methodology/Approach: The study covered the area within Maipokhari and Sulubung village of Sandakpur Rural Municipality. Ontology and Epistemology philosophy of research was used as positivism. This research was intended to propose the model of smart village examined through a scheduled questionnaire in village sample of SRM, literature reviews related to smart village, and smart rural. This research proposed the smart village with the characteristics as Smart Utilization of Resources, Smart Living, Smart Governance, Smart Village Services, Smart Technology, Smart Tourism, and Gender Equity and Women Equity which can comply with some of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Five points Likert scale was used on ranking smart village feature and Chi-Square test is done to determine the significance of respondent’s opinions for the variables from the collected data. After the analysis of data with the Five-Point Likert Scale, ratings on smart features were given as Fair (2.82), Fair (3.02), Fair (2.93), Fair (3.17), Fair (3.2), Good (2.42), and Poor (3.46) respectively. Findings/Result: The chi-square test showed that the majority of respondents supported the perspective toward Smart Village features as fair. Smart villages can only be possible with long-term planning, strategy and investment. With the adoption of features of the smart village, the study area can be converted into a smart village but it may take time to incorporate these features completely The Smart village model is expected to be applied to villages in other regions by adjusting the characteristics of each region as every village has their own characteristics. Originality/Value: It is action research to analyze the practicability of smart village development. It will be a method universal acceptable for assessing the feasibility of smart cities. The new concept will be fruitful for policymakers, Professionals, and nations for systematic development. Paper Type: Ex-Post Facto Research.
Highlights
Nepal is a country with diverse geographic environments, including Terai, Hill, and Mountain, but in all these areas, the urbanization style is fast and uneven
During KII it was found that the lifestyle of the people must be changed and the village lacks most of the facilities like health, better educational institutes, sanitation, well-managed roads, etc. which are the basic requirements for smart living
The village services which are needed for the day-to-day life were found to lack well-equipped infrastructures and services provided by them were below the average
Summary
Nepal is a country with diverse geographic environments, including Terai (plain area), Hill, and Mountain, but in all these areas, the urbanization style is fast and uneven. The result is that most of the massive cities are failing to cope with the demand of infrastructure offerings and job possibilities are more and more dazzling beneath the penalties of the haphazard urbanization. In these large cities environmental degradation, congestion, city poverty, scattered settlements, unemployment and lagging provisions of infrastructure offerings have emerged as an increasingly more seen phenomenon (Mishra and Shah, 2018) [1]. A smart village is an allencompassing and comprehensive methodology for country advanced change towards accomplishing the SDGs in far-off and underserved communities where: (a) Rural inhabitants approach organize foundation using associated gadgets and services. That is why the research is conducted with a view to analyze the international practice suitable in the Nepalese context and to assess the practicability of developing smart villages
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