Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana - MPs adopting villages & building them as exemplary ones. PM Modi has urged all MPs to use their resources to develop at least one model village by 2019. A model village is a type of mostly self-contained community, built from the late 18th century onwards by landowners and industrialists to house their workers. Although the villages are located close to the workplace, they are generally physically separated from them and often consist of relatively high quality housing, with integrated community amenities and attractive physical environments. "Model" is used in the sense of an ideal to which other developments could aspire.