Free sample essay on A Visit to a Village. When someone from a city visits a village, he finds everything different. In fact, some of the differences appear surprising. During the summer vacation, I visited my native village Besra in Orissa.
My father was born and brought up here. When at the age of 19 he joined the army, he left his home. Since then he only occasionally visited the village. This time we had gone there after five long years. But surprisingly, very little has changed in my village during those five years.
My village is backward. Despite great progress in other parts of the country, the pace of development is very slow in my village. My village is connected to the main road by non- metallic road. When I entered the village, I was welcomed by lush green fields. There were hills and hillocks scattered all around the village. The farmers were sowing the seeds in their fields. Their wives and children were also helping them. At a little distance there was a big field. A flock of children were grazing their cattle there. A stream was flowing nearby. The grazing cattle were drinking water in the stream. The greenery that I saw in the village is rare in a city. The life is laid back and calm. There is no hassle and moving there. Moving ahead, suddenly some stinking smell struck my nose. I covered my nose with my handkerchief. The smell was coming out of a big drain which was flowing nearby. The muddy passage was littered by the cowdungs.
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In the village I saw the primary school. I was surprised at the sight of school. It merely consisted of a two-room buildings. There were around thirty children sitting on coir mat. There were two teachers, each one teaching a group of fifteen, twenty children. The children were writing on the wooden plates called tektites. There was dullness and silence all around. I could hear no noise except the scream of children and the barking of dogs. However, there was occasional hoarse crying of vendors that one can hear in the village.
There were no shops, hospitals, cinema halls, post offices, banks in the village. People have to move two kilometers to buy things of day-to-day need. Due to lack of hospitals, some times the villagers have to meet untimely death. They cannot get immediate emergency treatment there. There is no cinema hall. It is only through the cable network that they can see a movie otherwise they have to travel six kilometers to have a show of movie. Power cut is an important feature of Indian village.
I stayed for two days in our village, the second day was very boring. So long I was among the relatives, I felt good. I returned to my city the third day. But while returning I took a resolve to work for the improvement in the life of the villagers, as I grow up.