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The progress made by India has many facets,which rampant commercialization has hidden from our view.The recent glorious achievements of India might have enabled ” nouveaux riches ” to spend in a mindless fashion but that’s not reflection of balanced progress.Just cast a glance around and eyes would certainly get fixed on ill-clad children,beggars,mentally-ill people roaming aimlessly on the streets.
Then there is an absolutely different world.In this world making money is the only mantra be it by repetitions of Janet Jackson famous slip by our models at various fashion shows or be it by mind-boggling corporate frauds.One cannot ignore the fact that this so-called progress is coupled with falling standards in morality level.
In fact,this buying power of certain elitist sections has only polarized the Indian society in a dangerous manner.The need of the hour is to go in for ideas,which allow all the classes to enjoy the benefits in equal manner, making way for their dignified existence as well .
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Compared with India’s 828 million people, or 75.6% of the population living below US$ 2 a day, sub-Saharan Africa, considered the world’s poorest region, ranks better with 72.2% of its population — about 551 million people — below the US$ 2 a day level.
India has 456 million people, or around 42% of its population living below the new international poverty line of $ 1.25 a day. The number of Indian poor constitutes 33% of the global poor — pegged at 1.4 billion people.
In other words, nearly five out of 10 Indians live below what the world’s poorest countries consider the poverty line.
http://infochangeindia.org/200808287305/Poverty/News/Five-out-of-10-Indians-live-on-less-than-Rs-55-a-day.html
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Thanks a lot for visiting the page.You have hit the nail on the head when you say that ”that a sizable portion of its resources are in the hands of few”.This so-called progress holds no meaning for people living below poverty line.
We boast of having a large number of youths.However,what we don’t realize is that high level of unemployment among this youth brigade is forcing them to reckon with wrong means of survival.
It’s difficult to imagine that socialism can make a comeback in our times.
Thanks for visiting the page.
We need to ensure a fair and equitable process of development!!
Emotion makes excuses for the state the world were in
The truth that most dizzy humans can’t understand is that no matter what system of governing humans on earth -there will always be huge disparities, because it is the cold hard truth of nature
I don’t like the way the conscious fewer have to go through their consciousness –earth is one mother awful place to be conscious—-no fairness
Unpredictability govern all countries !
We do need balanced progress but our leaders can’t see the “tadapta bharat”. For them India is shining
India is shinning only for privileged few.
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A LARGE proportion — 26 per cent or about 260 million (193 million in rural areas and 67 million in urban areas) — of Indians are still below the poverty line, according to India’s first Social Development Report released in New Delhi on Friday.
(From A report published in The Hindu
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Ironically, according to report published in Financial Express it has most number of billionaires.
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On the other hand, India also houses the most number of billionaires in Asia-36, ahead of economic powerhouse Japan, according to Forbes magazine. These billionaires together control a wealth of Rs 8,60,000 crore.
(Financial Express)
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