Transformation of Rural Village in to a Rurban Village

Abstract

Vishwakarma Yojana is one of the initiatives towards Rurbanization by Government of Gujarat, which was allotted as a real time situation type project provide to GTU. The students and Faculty Members meet all the citizen of a village, survey the existing facilities. Then they re-imagine and design the whole of the infrastructure of the village. The students use their engineering skills to prepare detailed project reports for the infra-structure as a part of their final year project work. By this project Students are experience a real work and able apply own technical knowledge on any real problem. This entails hard work, many students’ visits to the village and do survey on his particular village. Our aim is to design new infrastructure facilities or improve the existing ones. We will be proposing design of basic physical, social or sustainable infrastructure such as biogas plant, sewerage, public library, hospital, irrigation facilities, improving road conditions, etc. and road networks and redesign the housing conditions as per requirement.