Because Urban India pays taxes, rural India does not, but rural India sees the brunt share of it in wasteful populist schemes like Guaranteed employment, subsidies and so forth. Agriculture is not sustainable in a nation with one billion people, where each father divides land among his songs, keeps dividing it until there is nothing left. Tens of millions of people will be moving to cities and towns from the villages by even 2010. Yet, the central, state and city governments are so poorly prepared for the deluge of people. New slums are bound to pop up, water, energy, transportation are pathetic. India's cities are heading for chaos as this migrations takes place. Unfortunately, the beauracracy could care less as long as they reap the short-term benefits.
