Can India afford to fall for such false praise and be complacent when an UN estimate released in April this year claimed that India now has 410 million people living below the U.N. estimated poverty line of $1.25 a day, 100 million more than was estimated earlier. One thing that has surely risen is the poor in India. The poverty rate has risen to 37.2 percent of the population from 27.5 percent in 2004.
As its population, the issues concerning India are humungous. We are lacking in even the basic human necessities like sanitation and quality drinking water. The economic disparity is widespread and increasing. In spite of 60 years of independence, literacy condition is still pathetic in some parts of the country. Agriculture is largely monsoon dependent in spite of being an agricultural economy. Infrastructure is abysmal and lacking severely when compared to emerging and developed economies. Corruption is rampant in government and elsewhere.
Yet India is emerging in various fields like Technology, Space and Nuclear sector. It gives an indication of the country's immense potential and obviously it also presents the long journey to unleash that potential. Despite increased wealth and a burgeoning urban middle class, the vast majority of India's rural population remains illiterate and impoverished
We have to stop being complacent by looking at the shining narrow top of the prism and look at broad base which is dirty and despair. If India has to emerge fully we need to make sure that the benefit of India's growth story reached everyone down under.
Yet India is emerging in various fields like Technology, Space and Nuclear sector. It gives an indication of the country's immense potential and obviously it also presents the long journey to unleash that potential. Despite increased wealth and a burgeoning urban middle class, the vast majority of India's rural population remains illiterate and impoverished
We have to stop being complacent by looking at the shining narrow top of the prism and look at broad base which is dirty and despair. If India has to emerge fully we need to make sure that the benefit of India's growth story reached everyone down under.
Has India Emerged?
November 9, 2010By Sumit Ganguly
Barack Obama might have been a little premature when he said that India has 'emerged'.
Has India really ‘risen’ or ‘emerged’? US President Barack Obama, on his first visit to India, regaled his Indian hosts with both these laudable terms. But despite the obvious delight at the characterizations, and although India’s economic growth is an extraordinary story, his comments may have been a bit premature.
November 9, 2010By Sumit Ganguly
Barack Obama might have been a little premature when he said that India has 'emerged'.
Has India really ‘risen’ or ‘emerged’? US President Barack Obama, on his first visit to India, regaled his Indian hosts with both these laudable terms. But despite the obvious delight at the characterizations, and although India’s economic growth is an extraordinary story, his comments may have been a bit premature.
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