AFRICA residing in India

Hello readers,

I was thinking for writing my new post and was not getting good topic. I would say, there was no topic as well as many topics. But the issue I wanted to discuss is poverty in India. In the newspaper the heading was the same as I gave to this post. Let's begin...

Poverty is the main and root evil of all evils for humanity and for a country. Economists have studied a lot for the benchmarks of poverty. Human development is basic for the development of world and that's why UNITED NATIONS publishes Human Development Index(HDI) every year. But the point is, the recent release of HDI is very shameful for India. It says, 8 states of India are worse than 26 worst states of AFRICA. 420 million people in Bihar, Chhatisgrah, Zarkhand, MP, Orrissa, Rajasthan, UP and Bengal are under poverty.

In last fiscal, India noted growth of 7.4% in GDP. My question is, while the country is making growth, why there is high percentage of poverty? government have millions of tons of food as a food security which is wasted being there and people die without food there. Are you getting me? I think so. computers are getting cheaper but food prises are raising like a rocket. What's going on?

When Swami Vivekananda after his historic trip to America, addressed the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1983 and said to youth: "You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Bhagavad Gita". Good health is the first strive for perfection. He said that Indians remained lazy because they were deprived of strength and energy. He explained our inability to work in terms of our physical weakness. He even painfully noted that the root cause of selfishness and disunity among Indians was our weakness menifested in fragile body and spirit.

Why I wrote that paragraph? Because the condition don't seem to be changed till now. If the the people are not able to get food to eat, what is the growth of 7.4% worth? and poverty is not even in low percentage. This clearly means that India is growing at 7.4% and next year it is expected to grow at 8.5%. But only the top 10% to 20% people are growing. still there are children who are suffering of malnutrition. Maoists are ultimately a result of poverty.

We are living in a country where mobile simcards are free but rice are rs.60-65 a kilo. a commercial complex is built in a year while government complex takes years. Pizza is delivered at home in 30 minutes but ambulance comes too late. However the 108 service in Gujarat is successful in its commitment. recent study told that 108 emergency service is faster than US emergency service - 911. Great achievement.

But gujarat is also not good. Recent study said that though there are not much people poor as the 8 states I have mentioned, but the slums in Gujarat are worst ever in not only India but over the world.

My sir says that he hates US. But here I love US for its government services. There may be problems also but at least their government service are far better than us. But the thing is, here I can not conclude saying I love US and India is worse. The conclusion is -What can be done about it? Government, here, should reduce the price of petrolium which will result in low food inflation. Why there no private players in selling petrol?

Many things can be done about the issue. But I have all the solutions which are subjective and blaming government. govt. should do this and govt. should do that... In this situation I am not in condition to contribute to it... but I will in one or the other way...

I think you also should...