Terming the Central government’s flagship Smart City project “insufficient and inadequate” for ensuring overall progress of the country, Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh stressed the on need to make villages smart.
“Villages rather than cities need to be made smart for the overall progress and development of the country,” Singh said yesterday at the 6th convocation of Rajasthan Technical University (RTU) in Kota.
Mr. Singh argued the real nation dwells in the villages and hence the country cannot develop and progress by making only the cities smart.
“Without making the villages smart, nation cannot become developed and progressive,” he said.
Mr. Singh, who was earlier with the BJP, said he himself belongs to a village and still laments the poor infrastructure and absence of essential amenities like drinking water, electricity, and roads there.
The Governor said he had recently asked the State Chief Secretary to take the developmental projects and government schemes to the villages to turn them smart.
He appreciated the girl students of the RTU for bagging maximum number of medals and degrees and asked the boys to study hard to improve their performance. - PTI
