Kerala model

Kerala is a state which is a model in many ways for the other states of India. One of them is the literacy rate. The next one is cleanliness. You can never see the road sides, made dirty with human or animal waste even in small lanes or even in villages.
They are malayalis first and then only they think of what ever religion or subsect they belong to.
You can see in Kerala that there is no big difference between a village and a town or a city. Through out Kerala you can see houses and school which ever place it is. while going to guruvayur you can see children waiting for the bus to go to school in neat school uniform. There is no vacant land which is barren and un occupied.
The main reason is the attachment they have for their 'nadu' their birth place. Keralites, even if they move out, for better prospect, 'return' to their native place after retirement. I have seen many of my keralite friends saying that they will go back to 'nadu' after retirement and they have gone back also. I have seen many mansions in small villages on our travels inside Kerala. It is all gulf money which they spend in building in village or small town instead of in the big cities where as other NRIs tend to build in big cities.
In tamilnadu lot of migration has taken place in the past 100 or more years. Our grand parents slowly moved to the cities in search of jobs and our parents continued to live in the city and that is why many of us have a broken down house in our native village/place and a broken down temple to which once a year or so we go ceremoniously.
I know today I can not go and live in my village as there is no basic facilities. While in Kerala since there are so many people living in small places, the basic amenities like electricity, school and medical facilities are available. They have comparitively good roads too.
Once people start living in small places, the facilities will follow as it is simple economics. For example, doctors can practice only when people are there who can pay them their fees.
Today tamil nadu villages especially the ones I saw are pathetic where they don't have even drinking water as all the wells are dry due to the indiscriminate use of the borewells.
At least if we can have some small establishment in the villages and go once or twice a year to spend some time and have solar panels for electricity, rain water harvesting for water, etc. we can make a beginning towards decongesting the already overloaded cities.
Once the cities and villages merge and the infrastructure and amenities come to the villages there will not be an exodus of people to cities and villages will also prosper just like Kerala.