I Was Born and Educated in India and Have Now Been in the U.s. For the Past Ten Years. I Find That People in India Do Not Have a Sense of Ownership About Their Cities, There is No Pride. How Can We Get More Civic Participation?

Q.
I Was Born and Educated in India and Have Now Been in the U.s. For the Past Ten Years. I Find That People in India Do Not Have a Sense of Ownership About Their Cities, There is No Pride. How Can We Get More Civic Participation?

Name: Sanjay Verma

Age: Not Available

Institution: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

City: USA

A.
I agree. Recently I visited a village in South India by the name of Keerapalayam, where the village panchayat (you call them county) has given the people the sense of responsibility about their surroundings, their village. Civic sense has to be injected by civic bodies. Education at the primary level has to make people proud of their surroundings.

By A.P.J.Abdul Kalam