Ambani Mega Dream City

Ambani has shown the path to millions since last few decades. Dhirubhai has changed the life of millions in the last century. Now Mukesh is showing a new world to millions. The concept of mega city has ensured that million of people from all across the world will have a chance to live a sophisticated life of 21st century, the humanity deserves in this era. I am forced to go little down the history lane to emphasis the importance and advantages. The life of future waits for those who dares.
The concept of house in civilization has changed drastically. Earlier, in villages, there were mostly kuchcha houses with few exceptions of brick houses. People were too social animal with very little requirements in and around the house. They were satisfied with the four wall concept where they could sit, relax, fight, sleep, produce and rear children, protect themselves from natural disasters and so on. Subsequently as civilization grew, there is drastic change in the housing condition. After approximately one hundred years of Le Car Busier, the biggest Architect of 20th century who is the architecture of planned city like Chandigarh (Punjab), the least effect has been observed on Indian continent because of many reasons including financial constraints and broad exposure. Good housing facilities could be limited to few elite who dared to drain for a good life style in spite of brain drain in the country. Most part of the civilization remained cut off from the basic facility of a good house because of the social, financial and cultural limitations. The housing condition has changed almost unimaginably. Today, when housing industries being opened to world market, Indian in particular and the people from all developing world will have to change their whole concept of housing. They will be forced to change the age old housing concept because of inherent compulsions. Today you visit any part of India or even in any other developing countries; there are two kinds of houses. One is a slum type and the other Apartment type.
The slum type houses people who have directly moved from villages to the cities or town. This type of housing has moved along the persisted security environment of the human civilization. People find themselves comfortable in slum houses as per their ancestral housing conditions. They feel safe on ground. They never see the volume of pollutions and other mind boggling scarcities of life. The life remains in beggarly conditions even though people have money to spend. They cannot have basic amenities in such houses. They do not have sanitation facilities. They do not have roads, playgrounds, greenery, and cleanliness; forget getting the modern connectivity that the people of the generation of 21st century deserve.
The apartment type houses all across the country and the world have their own advantages. A flat in a apartment matches the requirement of the modern life. Even if you have less money, you are privileged to have all the basic facilities, you need as a human. It is terrific pleasure to have the basics in our day to day life as a human being. The problem with civilization is that we do not realise the feeling till the time we live in that environment or situations. It is all human. The problem in the developing world is that there are few forward looking and educated person who take advantage of such changes. They have a comfortable life. Their basic amenities are available at a meager cost while the backward and conservative people are not in a position to enjoy the basic amenities of life. They always remain in scarcity. The requirement of modern life can be made available at very meager cost through these flats. This was clearly and amply researched by Le Car Busier in around 1900. The flat provides the kind of connectivity a family needs; the kind of basic facilities life demands, the kind of security a working family dreams, the kind of protection to their elder of the family the society wants. People have to get used to apartment type of houses very fast showing a change of not only one generation but many generations. These have to be done by every human to be desirous of having basic human privileges irrespective of their cast, creed, religion or region.

Today, when a graduate from a poor village gets a job at call center in NCR of Delhi or any other metros, for that matter, along with his wife, buys a flat on the 14th floor with their own income. The changes in house condition from a village to town is so drastic that any living relatives, of minor conservative thinking not major, may find it very uncomfortable to live in that house. People, who were used to live in the slum type of house on the ground, find it daring and adventurous to climb on the fourteenth floor. It appears to them that they have risen to a crazy drive. They find moving in corridors difficult. They find going to western toilet tough. They feel uncomfortable if they find tiles in the bathroom. They do not like neat and clean kitchen system. They find it uncomfortable as they do not observe dust around. Life on the fourteenth floor with all basic amenities appears to them like hell. Unless they get used to comfortable living, the comforts of life give them sleepless nights. They cannot digest much. They fight with their working members of the family. The working members of the family is away on whole day duties for 12-14 hours of the corporate culture in the developing world, they find it intolerable when they hear complaints from their relatives who are provided all comforts of life on fourteenth floor. If these relatives are stronger and working couple is shaky, the family is forced to sell the flat and move to ground floor house in a remote place of the town or cities. The working person may find tough to commute to their working places but the relatives find it comfortable on the ground with meager facilities. Thus life has not improved but has gone berserk with the development.

The society in the nineteenth century has moved from village to slum side or roadside. The citizens of the poor states with meager knowledge, little money and less risk taking abilities have left their villages for a better life. The better life is not available in even civilized urban or rural societies. They have either made slums in cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chenai or Bangalore etc or road side houses in poor states like Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa etc. In slums or road side houses, there are no basic amenities. There is no Government machinery who would be able to provide basic amenities of today’s human being to these wide spread civilization. The concepts of village, society, colony or even cities have to be restored so as to provide basic amenities and necessities of life. The human beings in the diverse or widespread geography will not be able to enjoy the fruit of growth of their offspring's or ancestors without making changes in the housing condition. The housing concept has to change with time. This has to be amended by each individual and family for the benefit of human civilization. Today, a person or families have to look into complete holistic requirements of life when they plan to build their house in order to make their life comfortable. Mukesh Ambani is showing the path to millions through his imaginative ideas and proposals. This is where the future lies!