where is shining India

Everyone was shouting from the roof top, "India economy is growing at the phenominal rate" and now every one is quiet. Dollar has reached almost at Rs 58, growth rate has come down considerably, inflation is killing poor people and middle class is grasping for the breath. This growth has taken place haphazardly, in the pockets of politicians, corrupt bureaucrats and shrewd businessmen. The average men were given lollipop of shining India.  This lollipop is prepared at the cost of  Air pollution, water pollution, garbage pollution and wildlife natural habitat pollution. Go to any city of India you will find filth spread all over the city and this filth is in from the wrappers of potato chips, plastic bags, gutka pouchs etc etc, air is heavily polluted, forests depleted.

Our great politicians have not taken care of the Indian culture and Indian mentality while planning the growth path for the india, they just copied the western pattern and filled their pockets and balloned their swiss bank accounts for next 20 generations to eat without considering will their 20 generation will see this planet habitable ?.

The problem of sanitation in India

           Lack of proper sanitation is a major concern for India. Statistics conducted by UNICEF have shown that only 31% of India’s population is using improved sanitation facilities as of 2008.It is estimated that one in every ten deaths in India is linked to poor sanitation and hygiene. Diarrhoea is the single largest killer and accounts for one in every twenty deaths. Around 450,000 deaths were linked to diarrhoea alone in 2006, of which 88% were deaths of children below five. Studies by UNICEF have also shown that diseases resulting from poor sanitation affects children in their cognitive development.
Without proper sanitation facilities in India, people defecate in the open or rivers. One gram of faeces could potentially contain 10 million viruses, one million bacteria, 1000 parasite cysts and 100 worm eggs. The Ganges river in India has a stunning 1.1 million litres of raw sewage being disposed into it every minute.The high level of contamination of the river by human waste allow diseases like cholera to spread easily, resulting in many deaths, especially among children who are more susceptible to such viruses.
A lack of adequate sanitation also leads to significant economic losses for the country. A Water and sanitation Program (WSP) study The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Sanitation in India (2010) showed that inadequate sanitation caused India considerable economic losses, equivalent to 6.4 per cent of India’s GDP in 2006 at US$53.8 billion (Rs.2.4 trillion).In addition, the poorest 20% of households living in urban areas bore the highest per capita economic impacts of inadequate sanitation. (Source wikipedia)

Terrorism in India

Insurgency and terrorism are not new to India. Threats are manifold and come from divergent militant outfits. Their demands include greater regional autonomy, independence, the overthrow of the “bourgeoisie”, and dismantling the democratic structure of the Indian polity. The cluster’s research efforts are focused on insurgencies in the Northeast, Maoist (Naxalism) violence, management of India’s borders, coastal security and trends in global terrorism.
Major security problems faced by India can be broadly categorized under following head :

• “Naxalite Movement
• India-Pakistan Conflict
• Challenges of Border Management with Pakistan and China
• Illegal Migration in the Northeast
• Student Islamic Movement of India

All the topics will be covered under separate headings in future blogs

The Poor India

India is one of the poorest countries in the world. The poverty in India isn't just psycological poverty. The poverty in India isn't just emotional poverty. The poverty in India isn't just social poverty . The poverty in India is an absolute poverty. The poverty in India involves poverty in every aspect of life.

Poverty in India is widespread, with the nation estimated to have a third of the world's poor. According to a 2012 world bank estimate, 37% of the total Indian population falls below the international Poverty line of US$ 1.5 a day (, in nominal terms 21.6 a day in urban areas and 14.3 in rural areas).
According to 2010 data from the UNDP, an estimated 37.2% of Indians live below the country's national poverty line. A 2010 report by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) states that 8 Indian states have more poor than 26 poorest African nations combined which totals to more than 410 million poor in the poorest African countries.

The latest UNICEF data shows that one in three malnourished children worldwide are found In India, whilst 42 percent of the nation's children under five years of age are underweight. It also shows that a total of 58 percent of children under five surveyed were stunted.

The International Labor organization in its report global employment trends 2010 recorded a rise in vulnerable employment in South Asia through 2009 from 76.9% of total employment in 2008 to 78.6% by the third quarter of 2009. In India informal employment is much higher than that in other equally poor countries; it is growing as a proportion of total employment.
According to ILO vulnerable population is often characterized by inadequate earnings, low productivity and difficult conditions of work that undermine workers fundamental rights.
By Indian standards the size of the informal sector is even greater. Defining the unorganized sector as including all unincorporated private enterprises employing less than 10 people, the National Commission for Enterprises in the unorganized sector found that 93% of employment in India as of 1999-2000 was unorganized and that it had grown as a proportion of total employment from the early 90s on.
India’s agriculture industry employing 238 million in 2006-07 is almost 100% informal in employment according to NCEUS report. Manufacturing sector employs the largest share of women unorganized workers. Even India’s service sector is also informal. According to the 63rd round of the National sample survey the average number of workers per service sector enterprise in the country was 2.03% as of 2006-07.just over 1% maintained books of accounts.

Is there any thing new about corruption ? come on donot bore me

Does it not look strange that national emblem of India has "Satyamev Jayate" inscribed on it, where as hardly anyone feels about it. After seeing the thriving politicians and bureaucrats one gets a feeling that it not truth which prevails in the end. 

It is truth that corruption in the Indian society has prevailed from time immemorial in one form or the other. The basic inception of corruption started with our opportunistic leaders who have already done greater damage to our nation. People who work on right principles are unrecognized and considered to be foolish in the modern society. Corruption in India is a result of the connection between bureaucrats, politicians and criminals. Earlier, bribes were paid for getting wrong things done, but now bribe is paid for getting right things done at right time. Further, corruption has become something respectable in India, because respectable people are involved in it. Social corruption like less weighing of products, adulteration in edible items, and bribery has become acceptable things and no one cares about it now,even scams of the tune of lakhs of crores does not invoke anger in Indian society. Strange part is that every one is thinking how they can take their part from this booty .

Major Factors Responsible For Corruption:

1. The most important factor is the nature of the human being. People in general, have a great thirst for luxuries and comforts and as a result of which they get themselves involved in all unscrupulous activities that result in monetary or material benefits.
2. Moral and spiritual values are not given utmost importance in educational system, which is highly responsible for the deterioration of the society.
3. The salary paid to employees is very less and as a result of which they are forced to earn money by illegal ways.
4. The punishments imposed on the criminals are inadequate.
   1. The political leaders have spoiled the society completely. They lead a luxurious life and do not even care about the society.
   2. People of India are not awakened and enlightened. They fear to raise their voice against anti-social elements prevailing in the society. 
    

Status of HIV / AIDS in India

 
In 2006 UNAIDS estimated that there were 5.6 million people living with HIV in India, which indicated that there were more people with HIV in India than in any other country in the world. In 2007, following the first survey of HIV among the general population, UNAIDS and NACO agreed on a new estimate – between 2 million and 3.1 million people living with HIV. In 2008 the figure was estimated to be 2.31 million. In 2009 it was estimated that 2.4 million people were living with HIV in India, which equates to a prevalence of 0.3%. While this may seem low, because India's population is so large, it is third in the world in terms of greatest number of people living with HIV. With a population of around a billion, a mere 0.1% increase in HIV prevalence would increase the estimated number of people living with HIV by over half a million.

Still Births in India

New Delhi: Nearly one-fourth of all stillborn babies worldwide are from India, the highest for any nation, and more than half of them could be saved by better maternal and obstetric care.
A study to be published in The Lancet medical journal has found that an average of 2.6 million stillbirths occurred every year between 1995 and 2009, 23.2% of which were from India. This means an average of 1,680 babies were born dead every day in the country in that time.
This paints a dismal picture in the backdrop of emerging Census 2011 data, which points to a bias against girl children. The sex of stillborn babies was not specified in the peer-reviewed study, but it seems that deficient prenatal care is further queering the pitch for India’s women.
Although the World Health Organization (WHO) has previously pointed to the country’s exceptionally high infant and maternal mortality rate, the Lancet study, according to the writers, is the first to track regional trends over a long period.
“Unfortunately, still births don’t count in data-collating efforts for the millennium development goals. So this is a kind of first attempt at trying to capture a true picture of the problem,” said Joy E. Lawn, lead author of the research series. “Over time, we expect better numbers and data based on standard numbers to come out.”

India on Global Hunger Index

Hunger can be defined as an uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food; craving appetite. Also the exhausted condition caused by want of food, the want or scarcity of food in a country. World hunger refers to the aggregated to the world level. The target set at the 1996 World Food Summit was to halve the number of undernourished people by 2015 from their number in 1990-92.The estimated number of undernourished people in developing countries was 824 million in 1990-92.In 2009 the number had climbed to 1.02 billion.
According to the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Global Hunger Index 2011 India’s food security continues to be alarming. It ranks 67 of the 81 countries of the world with the worst food security status. This means that there are only 14 countries in the world whose citizens have worst nutritional status.
The GHI is based on 3 indicators – the proportion of the population that is undernourished, the proportion of children who are under weight and under five child mortality.
India’s GHI for 2011 was 23.7 lower than it was 15 years ago giving it a rank of 67.Pakistan,Nepal,Rwanda and Sudan did better than India while Bangladesh, Haiti and Democratic Republic of Congo were countries which are worse than India.
India is being among the countries with the least improvement in last 10 years. It has however moved from having an extremely alarming food security situation to alarming.China, Brazil and India are among the countries that have more than halved their GHI scores over the last decade.

Dirty Indian Cities

 Do not you think it's time for some introspection? Forbes has rated Delhi as the 24th dirtiest city in the world with the filthy waters of the Yamuna and its unhealthy surrounding being cited as one of the chief factors. But outside Delhi too, have we done enough to keep our cities clean? Is it the way we groom our children to pull down the glasses and throw the wrappers out of the car? Or is it the so called democracy where every one has the right to throw garbage anywhere and everywhere? Or worst still, it could be the indifference of the municipal authorities. But the bigger reason, obviously, is the lack of well planned garbage and sewerage disposal systems that could go a long way in containing the mess. o get More than all this we need to educate the masses.

corpse floating in holy river , Ganges

This is a picture of corpse floating in holy river, Ganges. Government has spent billions of Indian rupees for cleaning the river but with no visible results. It has some thing to do with religious faith in India and people need to be educated on this. It was OK when the population of India was less and corpse were eaten by fish. Now due large population pollution has also increased which has resulted in depletion of fishes in river, now we find dead bodies of animals and human floating in River.


Solution:  First and foremost is education of the general public. World is driven by two forces fear and greed. Fear of god is cause of all the religions and it is prime responsibility of religious teachers to educate the general public ( Govt Just don't want to do it because this leads to erosion in vote bank).

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