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 people are deemed literate who can do little more than sign their name. Only 10 percent of the entire Indian labor force works in the formal economy; of these fewer than half are in the private sector. 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.
(Sources: UNDP, Unicef, World Food Program; Edward Luce)
You get the idea.
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. India was only a few places ahead of rival Pakistan (134th) and hapless Cambodia (129) and behind such not-about-to-be-superpowers as Equatorial Guinea (120), and Tajikistan (122).
JUST LOOKING AT THE STOCK MARKET AND MUMBAI AND IT COS AND ALL THE BIG CITIES, YOU CANT SAY INDIA IS SUPERPOWER.
Right now I am in US, but I am from a very small town in India. I am 32 now and the town where I am from is just the way it was as far back as I can remember.In fact things are getting worse .. more posercuts, more bad road and worst of all more population ..
