The Wings of Money

India… A country… rather a journey for us to understand, learn and experience its vividness. It is said that Indian Economy is govern mainly by the agriculture sector or rural India in a more panoptic sense. But how the rural economy works is the major question?

I am traveling a lot of villages these days as a part of an initiative of our company to go rural. This had given me an opportunity to observe closely and get a first hand experience of the rural part of our country.

For any economy to function, there need to be a market for the purpose of giving runniness to money. The Rural Indian does understand it better. Hence every village of country is having a system of weekly bazaar. This weekly bazaar generally is organized in the Gram Panchayat head quarter village. Every Gram Panchayat is covering approximately a population of 5k. The number of villages ranges from 2 to 10 in every Gram Panchayat area. These weekly bazaar sells every thing which would be helpful to run a rural life and includes household items to the agricultural products, fertilizers, pesticides, vegetables, clothes etc. On the day of bazaar, you go to any shop and they would hardly give you time to talk. They are so busy with the fundamentals of rotating the money that they would tell you to talk to them some other day, if you are not there to be the part of their economics process. This is the day of the week when the money from the household moves to the sellers and makes them suddenly rich person for atleast a week time.

But how they are using this liquid money further? This is the question which sometimes enamors me the most considering a huge amount of money which flows from one hand to other in these weekly bazaars.

I was traveling through one of the village called “Kanharpur” in the Churia Tehsil of Rajnandgaon District of Chattisgadh. It was 11 O’clock in the morning when we reached this village. The entire village was looking abandoned at that time. I asked some people sitting below the trunk of one of the huge tree at the entrance of the village about this. They said that yesterday was the bazaar day in their village and every body are tired enough that they are resting in their house.
Of course handling huge money as per the rural standard definitely brings a kind of strain in the muscles of the people. The mental muscles.
But another question was what next they are going to do with that money? Are they going to invest it in their agriculture or land or they are going to save this money in their bank?
That person answered, “Why don’t you go to some house of this village? You will get answer of all your questions”.

That sounds good. I went to one of the window kiosk kind of shop located inside the village. There a kid was sitting in the shop. I asked that kid to call his father or any other elder member of the family. He went inside the house and called his father. A middle aged person came to the window. He joined both his hand and said in chattisgadhi language, “Sir, I am a bit high and I would not be able to talk to you right now. Kindly forgive me” and went inside the house. I asked my driver, who belongs to Chattisgadh, about what that person has said. The driver told us to get into the car and said that you will find entire village drunk today. Also, every house today makes best of the best food as per their standard. This is because of the fact that they have made good money yesterday due to the weekly bazaar and this is the best way they can celebrate the money. Eventually these people makes money every week to celebrate one day.

“Strange. But what will they do after that? How would they operate their regular life once they fall short of the money?”

“Sir they would wait till next bazaar to make money again. This is how rural life operates. They are not worried about their future or savings. They have very less expectations from their life. They actually live in the present moment rather than thinking for their future. And this attitude of these people are well being used by the zamindaars of the villages”. This is how money makes a complete cycle with creating a little productivity to those who actually had set the money to rotate and gives maximum benefits to those who are not directly involved in the movement of money. And in this order, keeps the villages and villagers of our country as it is, without making any significant change in their life. The hard earned money flows from one hand to other without generating any value to those who actually push it to flow and rotate.

Eventually this is the case with most of the villages of India, the actual driver of economy. The drunk driver.