B'luru rain wreaks havoc in M'luru veggie markets
What we need is 'Pashchima Vahini' to grow vegetables locally instead of importing vegetables. I have already posted that to decrease traffic across westernghats, hence to curb ever increasing need for expanding roads or railways, we have to reduce requirements of transportation. There are a few ways to do this. Let me summarize them again.
- Local production - Grow vegetables and grains locally. Manufacture FMCG goods locally from locally available resources. And more & more use of local agricultural products and manufactured goods.
- Distributed administration - Karnataka has identified need for more districts & taluks. But the country has not identified need for more states. The traffic to the state's capital city can be reduced by creating more capitals. with this more stress & encouragement to federal administration will even reduce the burden on country's capital.
- Digitization can help in reducing need to travel to the capital city.
- Reverse migration - Imagine we create enough job opportunities to the people migrated (15 lakhs approximately as per my guestimation - considering not only IT industry but others like film/entertainment, banking, hospitality etc) from the coastal region to the parched city and encourage them to come back. That will reduce the need for travel to meet relatives. But a side effect may be reduced air travel which may be considered as bad by economists but environmentalists don't have objections.
Tulu outfit set to observe Black Day on November 1
Apart from economical and ecological sustainability smaller states can contribute a lot towards sustainability of local culture & linguistic diversity.