Why nobody talks about appropriate technology?

Way back in 1940s, Pandit Nehru advocated Appropriate Technology to battle innumerable issues that India was experiencing. Appropriate Technology is a synthesis of the foreign and the local, in order to suit the realities of our country, like abundant manpower, and natural resources etc. Visit the wikipedia to understand more about Appropriate Technology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology

There are so many ways if there is will to battle lots of issues that we are experiencing in India right now with technology. For example, in Tiurpathi, the city municipality initiated a project to procure household garbage for reasonable price to be used for energy and compost production. This helps preventing the cluttering of our neighborhoods with garbage and there by spreading of diseases and also it helps to generate energy at lower cost with appropriate technology. As a matter of fact, the huge garbage that we generate in our households can potentially create lot of wealth.

http://money.outlookindia.com/scripts/IIH021C1.asp?sectionid=10&categoryid=48&articleid=3093

There are so many other areas where we can use suitable technology such as Agriculture, Infrastructure, Health, education, and in all walks of life.

Now, why our leaders are not talking about technology to improve the lives of the people? Rather they are innovative in coming up with more and more populist schemes that will drain the coffers easily without any productive development?

What do we need to do?

1. More emphasis on appropriate technology in our education right from 6th class.
2. Seminars and conferences by Universities and schools to bring awareness and education.
3. Means to commercialize the technology
4. Government incentives to companies that adopt and produce Appropriate Technology.

What do you think?