if we indians think that the outside world is waking up to us...blah blah, you are wrong. nobody really cares about which country is what. that too india. India has many problems with 25% of the population have great difficulty in getting a meal a day....and this guy is more interested in knowing what the outside world thinks about it.
the only reason why this article is being criticized is because of the figures being postd by other users...but the true meaning of this article is to say that we are growing fast...the numbers will change and are becoming better than ever before. Therefore we should stop cribbing about people getting poor..and instead work towards the future when india will truly return to its golden era
RE:look ahead
by ashish on Feb 23, 2007 11:20 PM Permalink
when did india ever have a golden era ,if India is growing so fast why are so many people runing away from this so called GROWING INDIA
It is good to know the largest venture capitalist is from india.He studied in Delhi university.His name is ekhlaque.He lives in USA.He loves funding indian corporation.
The article refers to financial market. agreed it's a backbone but look at India in totality. economy should be measured by health and education primarily. GDP will get adjusted automatically.
--> Do we have the data of what is the literacy rate in our country --> Do we know how far we have eradicated unemployement and corruption --> Still high number of malnourished children are present in India
If above three factors were set right I would say India is Shining.
Currently the working population of India is high and hence GDP is growing a a good - consistent rate. Remember after 40 years this working population will enter old age and have to be fed through then working population. What will be the structure at that time.
RE:illusion or reality
by Karikolraj Kasirajan on Feb 18, 2007 08:29 PM Permalink
Agreed my friend. For all your questions raised by you, We need EDUCATED politicians to answer you.
RE:illusion or reality
by Kaustubh Kumar on Feb 18, 2007 07:48 PM Permalink
india has the majority of its population at the young age who are not working..so 40 years from now i think there will be far more workers therefore our structure looks pretty bright..i have thought about it
Yes why not Half the people go to bed hugry, Polio is again spread and we are facing danger in northeast, and in north. Rich are getting richer and we are improving. Way to go
India will wape up by changing Government offices to private. Change the government offices to private and drive the people away. Thats how u can improve India. Few people in the government sector are ruining the country
What is that crap written down there by Mr hello about the way you treated in first world countries in an emergency and the way you treated in India ,have you seen the government hospitals for the poor its more like a grave yard and why about going abroad on a visit visa without insurance ,why should tax payers pay for your bills if you fall ill there? The benefits are for their citizens not for outsiders.Please get your facts right before making silly comparisons.
47 percent of Indian children under the age of five are either malnourished or stunted. The adult literacy rate is 61 percent (behind Rwanda and barely ahead of Sudan). Even this is probably overstated, as in India, people are deemed literate who can do little more than sign their name. The enrollment of six-to-15-year-olds in school has actually declined in the last year. About 40 million children who are supposed to be in school are not. About a fifth of the population is chronically hungry; about half of the world's hungry live in India. More than a quarter of the India population lives on less than a dollar a day. India has more people with HIV than any other country in the world The 2006 UN Human Development Report, which ranks countries according to a variety of measures of human health and welfare, placed India 126th out of 177 countries, behind such not-about-to-be-superpowers as Equatorial Guinea (120), and Tajikistan (122). Only 10 percent of the entire Indian labor force works in the formal economy; of these fewer than half are in the private sector. There are 7 million Indians working in the formal manufacturing sector in India - and 100 million in China. The 1 million Indians working in IT account for less than one-half of one percent of the entire working population. In India, about a third of teachers fail to show up in schools on any given day (and, of course, are unsackable)
