Ghost Villages and Sleeping Towns

With the advent of the IT and the ITES companies the metros are becoming bigger and wider in very short period of time. People from the second rung cities and the smaller towns and villages have moved to the metros in search of high paying jobs. Seventy-five percent of the Engineering graduates every year leave their home towns to the IT hubs like Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad. The rate at which these metros are expanding the mini metros in these states are shrinking. As people move out, more family businesses are shutting shop. No one in the next genaration is intrested in running the business.The average age of these towns and villages keep increasing. Not many want to try their hand at new ventures.They think the chances of these ventures biting or burning the fingers are very steep.

In case of other professionals like Doctors, Chartered Accountants and Lawyers fifty percent move over to the metros but the rest stay in their home towns. Journalists, Accountants, Bankers, Designers, Artists do not stick to a particular place at all. It is the Institutions that matter. But these towns do have small scale Industries. These Industrial owners believe that their breed will die out if Multi-nationals come into their town. But with the majority of the talent moving to the metros will these small scale industries be able to grow?

There is the attractiveness of higher pay packet and improved standard of living but should we allow these small towns and villages to die? If the villages die there are higher chances of the productive land to come down. Are we initiating the slow death of Agriculture? In this hi-fi world are we forgetting the natural elements of the earth?