What is the role of youth towards self-sustenance in rural India?

There are a couple of responses that could be made here. 
One could argue Status Quo, in that the youth really have no responsibility towards
self- sustenance of rural India.  It can be argued that this problem was not created by
the youth.  It was not the youth that decided to consciously not invest in technologies
to help the rural component of India, a vast majority of the nation.  It was not the
youth's problem that politicians and business people were able to manipulate government
policy to favor liberalized practices that favored commerce and urbanization under the
guise of "globalization." It could be argued that the youth's role is not one to have to
take the burden of self- sustenance of rural India.  It has been an argument that has
been manipulated into other ways.  Those who have chosen a path of economic self-
interest use this argument to preclude any discussion of responsibility towards Indian
enhancement at the cost of self- interested
pursuits.

However, the reality is that majority of India is
rural.  The cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, and Kolkata do not comprise most of
India.  India is a rural nation.  As long as those areas do not experience self-
sustenance, there will be a lag between what India can do and what is presently does. 
Self- sustenance for rural India is going to lie in new technologies and approaches
being taught,  adopted, and absorbed.  This is most likely going to lie in the young
people who are able to experience more education.  As the movement towards universal
education becomes an increasing reality in India, young people being exposed to more
ideas and greater innovation methods and techniques will be the source of where self-
sustenance of rural India lies.  It is here were change can happen and will
happen.

I think that the role of youth in this process
cannot be forced or mandated.  As said earlier, the condition of rural India in regards
to not being able to develop self- sustenance as well as the lag between rural and urban
India is not their fault.  If there is a role for youth in this process, it will lie in
the notion of sacrifice.  Young people will have to recognize a sense of sacrifice
within them that will enable them to place self- interest in its proper context and
offer back to the rural condition that is both a part of them and their land.  I think
that the example of Aravinda Pillalamarri and Ravi Kuchimanchi is representative of
this.  A young couple who went to America to make their money, they return to India in
order to develop electricity for rural schools that lacked it.  Inspirations for the
film Swades, this sense of sacrifice
is where the role of the youth lie in being able to develop the new technologies and
habits of mind and practice that will allow self- sustenance in rural India.  As Indians
progress with lightning speed towards a more globalized reality, at some point, there
will have to be a reckoning that what they do must benefit someone other than themselves
in order to see the rural section of India experience these
benefits.