Rural trade centre is a small initiative towards smart villages Rural trade centre is a platform that provides equal opportunities to the citizents of india (especially belonging to the rural background ) to access their bussiness in their respective fields( agriculture, dairy, poultry farming etc) and also share their ideas and views with each other. Rural trade centre further provides financial as well as institutional help for the same.

1. Rural trade centre
an initiative towards smart villages
By,
Kumar avinash
5th year
2011-16 batch
Sunderdeep college of
architecture, Ghaziabad,
Up, india

2. Thesis on
rural trade centre
• Project: rural trade centre
• Project type: semi urban- rural project
• Rural trade centre is a small initiative towards smart villages
• Rural trade centre is a platform that provides equal
opportunities to the citizents of india (especially belonging to the
rural background ) to access their bussiness in their respective
fields( agriculture, dairy, poultry farming etc) and also share
their ideas and views with each other.
• Rural trade centre further provides financial as well as
institutional help for the same.
• Following aspects comes under rural trade centre:
 Grain depot(silos)
 Rural/ gramin bank;
 Showrooms of agricultural
tools, equipments, & machenery
 Vegetable market
 Grain market
 R & d labs
 Plant nurseries
• destipte of all these factors farmers suicide rate is increasing
day by day ; bad crops , lack of storage, low rates are forcing
farmers to leave their occupations and move towards urban
settlements in search of better standards of living.
• Therefore its hard time now when
planners should start thinking about
smart villages also.
• Everyone in india is
talking about smart
cities , digital india but
within this race for
making urban life smart
we have forgotten that
still 55% of population
in india is employed on
agriculture, agriculture
adds nearly about 16%
to the gdp, also india is
among the top five
producers of
agriculture crops;

3.  Grain depot(silos)
 Rural/ gramin bank;
 Showrooms of agricultural
tools,equipments,&machenery
 Vegetable market
 Grain market
 R & d labs
 Plant nurseries
Rural trade centre is a space designed to incorporate all
the aspects of rural industry of india;such as
 Spice market
 Dairy
 Cattle / poultry market
 Workshops &seminar halls
 Craft market (haat)
 Store (regular &
cold storage)
 Guest houses
Rural trade centre is a platform that
combines all the aspects of the rural
industry of indian society and the
concept is inspired from nuclei that
combines all the atoms of a molecule
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 Provision for two separate sets of movement on the site
Pedesterian & vehicular(includes heavy trucks)
 Provide 24x7 servicibility
 The site is in manesar , that experiences almost 8 monthes
of high temperature along with harsh sun rays therefore
provision of shed for pedestrian movement
 Protection from dust storm
Weighing bridge plays a very essential role
in smoothing of any industry,it is a
platform used to calculate the net weight
of the goods coming in heavy vehicle
Location of weighing bridge to
provide servicibility to various
markets, storage & industries is yet
another challenges on site
Solution to this
challenge was
found by centrally
erecting a weighing
tower which is
accessible from
each zones of the
site
Thesis on
rural trade centre

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Thesis on
rural trade centre