Purbanchal University

Post- Development, democracy and the Village Telephone

This

Term paper is submitted to Mr. Madan Malla

In the partial fulfillment of the requirement for the

Practical of BBA

In English

By

Anjali Tharu

Shreenagar Integrated College

Kapilvastu, 2-Gangauli

June 21, 2023

 Development, Democracy, and the Village Telephone

Abstract
Sam Pitroda gives a detailed description of why telecommunications are important to
third-world countries and how giving telecommunications to third-world countries
can be achieved. After completed his graduation in US, later he worked on digital
telephone switches and he came back to his homeland, India, which he wanted to help
by improving telephone service. He believes that it is important for third-world
countries to have an advanced telephone system because it not only helps the
economy, but also helps for personal development. He talks about three things. First,
we need advanced technology for development activities. Second, modern
telecommunications and electronic information systems are appropriate technologies
in every region of the world and third, information technology can end cultural
barriers and bring human beings on an equal footing. Community telephone is the
best instrument for social change and fundamental to the process of democratization.
It makes human life easier and faster.
Table of content
 Introduction
 Body
 Result
 Discussion
 References
Introduction
Engineer, businessman, and adviser to the Indian government Satyan Pitroda was
born and educated in India. He did graduate studies in the United States, where he
later worked on digital telephone switches. After much success, he turned his eye to
his homeland, India, which he wanted to help by improving telephone service.
Although cell phones are a common feature in India's large cities, the majority of
Indians live in rural villages, the vast part of the country outside of the urban areas. In
this article, Pitroda discusses the role of technology in developing countries of the
Third World. He gives us his view of appropriate technology, technology which is
suitable for the level of development of a country. In rural India, two examples of
appropriate technology would be the water screw, a simple device to move water from
 a river to irrigate a field, and the inclined plane, a cable railroad to help trains climb
steep mountain slopes (Smalzer 2015).
Body
Pitroda was born in 1942 and raised in a poor village in one of the poorest areas of
rural India, a place with kerosene lamps and no running water. In 1980, at 38, he
became a U.S. citizen and a self-made telecommunications millionaire. By 1990, he
was 47 years old and nearing the end of nearly a decade back in India as leader of a
controversial but largely successful effort to build an Indian information industry and
begin the immense task of extending digital telecommunications to every corner of
my native country, even to villagers like the one where he was born.
Pitroda's method of developing technology remained controversial. The controversy
has entered on the efficacy and logic of bringing information technology to people
who are in global terms the poorest of the poor. The argument against him was that
the Third-World farming villages need water, hygiene, health, and power, more than
telecommunication. It seemed to him that the ignored technology's profound social
implications (https://www.merofuture.com).
i. The writer argues that advanced technology helps in water sourcing, sanitation,
construction, agriculture, and other development activities.
ii. Modern telecommunication and electronic advanced information systems are
appropriate technologies in every region of the world that still lacks water, food
and power. The reason is simply that modern telecommunication helps to fulfill
the needs and demands of the people.
iii. Information technology (IT) can end the cultural barriers overcome economic
inequalities and even compensate for intellectual disparities or high technology
can put equal human beings on equal footing and helps for comprehensive
democracy (https://www.merospark.com).
For instance, telephone services brought both economic and social benefits in
Karnataka state. With this service, it was possible for a truck owner to chase his
drivers, line up goods and labor by telephone, and monitor the movement of his
vehicles. Local farmers could call nearby cities and get real prices for their produce.
Artisans could speak to customers, machine operators could arrange for service and
repairs, shopkeepers could order goods- all by phone and in real time. In this six
months after the introduction of service, total bank deposits in the town rose by an
impressive 80%.
Pitroda argues that by the turn of the century or very shortly after, almost all of India's
600,000 villages will have telephone an instrument of social change, fundamental to
the process of democratization (https://www.merofuture.com).
Result
It is concluded that it has actually institutionalized its methods and culture to align
itself with the market modifications and consumer habits, which has actually
eventually permitted it to sustain its market share. It is advised that the business
should focus on the rural area in terms of developing commitment awareness, and
equity, such can be done by developing a specific brand name allocation technique
through trade marketing strategies that draw clear distinction in between
Development, Democracy and the village telephone.
Discussion
Through the group discussion, it is conclude that – telecommunications helps the
country to increase in economic sector and build social benefits. Community
telephone is the best instrument for social change and fundamental to the process of
democratization. It makes people life easier and faster in their work. When we are
sick we can easily call a doctor. It also brings countries closer together and helps to
establish a good relationship between the countries.
 Reference

Chaudhary. (2017, December 1). Development, Democracy and the Vilage Telephone.
Retrieved from merofuture.com: https://www.merofuture.com

Development, Democracy and the Village Telephone. (n.d.). Retrieved from

merospark.com: https://www.merospark.com

Smalzer. (2014). Development, Democracy and the Village Telephone. Cambridge

University press.