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creative, interactive, self-learning formal and informal education with focus on values, merit and quality. The workers, instead of being skilled or semi-skilled, will be knowledgeable, self-empowered and flexibly skilled. The type of work, instead of being structured and hardware driven, will be less structured and software driven. The management style will emphasize more on delegation rather than giving command. Impact on environment and ecology will be strikingly less compared to industrial economy. Finally, the economy will mostly be driven by knowledge and knowledgedriven industry.
Using the knowledge society as a base, we have to realize societal transformation by creating 7,000 PURA (Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas) covering 600,000 villages in different parts of India.
PURA MISSION
PURA envisages economic empowerment of a cluster of villages through the provision of physical connectivity, electronic connectivity and knowledge connectivity leading to economic connectivity. Based on the terrain and climatic conditions, there could be four types of PURA in our countryplain terrain, hill, coastal and desert. The population in the plain terrain and coastal region PURA may be around 20,000 to 100,000 in a cluster of 20 to 30 villages, whereas in the hill or desert PURA, the population may be 7,500 to 15,000 in a cluster of 30 to 50 villages.
TYPICAL WORKING PURAS It is possible to get an insight of PURA by studying a few of the operational PURAs in different parts of the country, in Periyar, Loni, Chitrakoot and Byrraju. Let us highlight some of the operational PURAS.
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