I had put up this photo few days back in the photo gallery so my friends could at least see the plight of this country, where a poor family is “living” beside the dustbins in Mumbai. After you see such things, let us reflect the way in which this country is leading itself to ruins!
- With the largest population, the state of Uttar Pradesh is one of the poorest state of the country. Currently it houses 60 million people who are spending their days in extreme poverty. (Check this for more information) Based on an estimate by World Bank, about 8% of world’s poor lived in UP as 1994-2004 estimate.
- For the seond most populous state, West Bengal – As of 2004, 31.9% of this state’s people are under the BPL Catagory! On the basis of the NSS, 61st Round Survey in 2004, “The percentage of rural household not getting enough food every day in some months of the year was the highest in West Bengal (10.6 per cent).”
- Coming to one of the states that has the commercial capital of the country – Maharashtra, it is the richest state in India on the basis of per capita income, but it is grappling with farmers’ suicides, which are the highest in the country. Something more – Maharashtra is the third state according to the number of people in BPL categories after UP and Bihar!
- For our capital city, New Delhi, see this picture :
With this being the state of our country, it’s obvious that even after 50yrs of independence, India still remains the land of the poor; with its leaders busy in ‘mass-struggle’ among themselves, what else can be expected?
Is this the country which has events like the IPL every year with crores of dollars spent on buying teams and sponsors? This is the country whose cricket team’s players earn as high as 14 crores on a single advertisement….this is the country whose actors demand 8 crores for 8 hours of acting in a commercial!
Wonder what takes them to spend lakhs on a single dinner at the largest 5-star Restaurants of the country!! Ask them for some significant charity, they will never run out of excuses to help you to “minding your own business”.
The reason I keep on blaming the “big names” of our country for the country’s plight is simple – we normal people cannot bring about the funding that could significantly change this country, we need bigger sources, but the question is, when the entire wealth of a country is accumulated in the hands of these hooligans, where do we get these sources to deliver from?
Keep reflecting while someone else dies on the streets suffering from hunger/illness and “poverty”.