RISC

Came across this paper called RISC by Atanu Dey and Vinod Khosla. These are my initial opinions (haven't given much thought and also I dont think I am sufficiently equipped w.r.t to understand it deeply and it's consequences).
What it proposes:-

• To develop the rural population the rural area should be transformed into a collection of cities some 5000 of them called RISC centers.
• Instead of providing all the infrastructure and services to every village provide them at these RISC centers as this is only economically viable. the cost or providing the services will be less because the services are being offered to a large no. of people (each RISC center caters to around 100 villages, which means around 1,00,000 people)
  

According to it these are going to be results:-

• stop the rural-to-urban migration (due to creation of employment oppurtunities and availability of the services that are now available only in the urban area.)
• increase in per-capita income of the rural people
  
• all this happens at a lesser cost and it is a catalytic cycle, which will continue once started.
  

It seems very convincing, but my only worry at present is that the rural landscape will get polluted because of this urbanization.

Date (24/07/2006)