Experts at the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) organized by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) which is ?being held from October 5-8, 2016 at the Habitat Centre, in New Delhi, India have ?identified rural roads infrastructural development as crucial in poverty alleviation in developing countries. This declaration was made on October 5, 2016 at a media colloquium ?with group journalists ?from India and ?five other countries, including Cameroon.

Addressing journalists from diverse media organs, Mr. Vijay Kumar former Director of Westland Institutes and former India bureaucrat, said it will be difficult for developing countries to alleviate poverty within the rural population without proper rural roads infrastructural development.

Mr. Vijay Kumar added that, development of good rural roads infrastructures will facilitate access to market and increased agricultural production of both food and cash crops in rural areas. Made provision of good health services easy and accessible, promote good health for rural population. This will also increased access to good education facilities by the population. The fact that people can move in and out of rural areas with good transportation means is by itself a strong development indicator for developing countries. This has work in India where in the last fifteen years government successfully built more than 400,000 km of rural roads, he explained. This affected the population living in these areas positively, this laudable initiative example by India government is worth emulating by other developing countries, Mr., Vijay opined.

He however advised that for those living in the rural areas to increased their income and standards of living, government must handle land governance management with care so that the people owned land. This will avoid land conflicts which at times affects production because of lack ownership rights. The scenario in certain developing countries where most of the land is owned by government, communities or big multi-national bodies is not the best because it slows growth, he concludes.

On his part Mr. Amit Kuman, Energy expert, most developed countries most worked hard to developed sustainable energy sources. This has a strong influence on development and growth in any nation in the world. He explains further that of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by United Nations Last September 2015, eight of them are directly link to energy. This implies in any nation does developed a sustainable energy system it will be practically impossible to attained these goals, he added. The daily livelihood of any population needs energy for various activities which leads to income generation and good living conditions. He equally advised that clear energy will help in the reduction of environmental degradations and other effects.