Our Vision and Mission for universities in India, including Setting up Indian Rural Universities for Rural Community Development, for Promoting Holistic Development in India

A higher education domain that needs considerable attention and development in India is the importance of academically comprehensive, research intensive, and community contributing universities, to address community, regional, and national needs. It is our vision and mission to further develop the universities in India, to initiate a renaissance in India in all realms of public life and people’s living, by 1. Developing the Central universities, State universities, and IITs to become prime research & development universities, contributing to sustainable community development. 2. Having all IITs to have Medical Colleges, because biomedical engineering is woven into medicine, for development of precision medicine and patient-tailored surgical procedures. 3. Set up a new batch of Indian Rural Universities (IRUs), to promote holistic rural development. 4. Transforming Private Universities to be research and community-engaged universities. To thereby (i) promote urban and rural developments, smart governance for community development, healthcare delivery, and industrial development, and (ii) Herald a new era of shared prosperity, peace, and progress. Rural University education is an effective tool for bringing about social change in rural regions through rural community development. Herein, we are providing a visionary concept of what a rural university should be, to address the multi-dimensional needs of rural regions in India. The rural community development programs can comprise: • Agriculture, animal husbandry, rural industries. • Rural infrastructure engineering: water supply, sanitation, roads, buildings, electrical power supply. • Primary to tertiary health care development and services. • Family welfare, women welfare, and childcare. • University education, including adult education, social education and literacy for the adult population. • Community organization and sustainable community development. For all these developments, we require the setting up of Indian Rural Universities This Paper comprises of these two sections: Section I. Our Grand Vision and Mission for Holistic Development in India Section II. Rural University Education, for Rural Community Development in India.