And BTW, its worse than the 60-40 figure you quote
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And BTW, its worse than the 60-40 figure you quote
see it takes time for all round development....now that a part of India is developed, it is the duty of the developed India to help the needy and help govt in changing the situation.......
cinefan, if social inequalities r the reason for crimes then y r there r so many school-shootout cases in US( ideal country according to u guys)???everybody and everything cannot be perfect okkkk??? if u can find 1 fault with India i can find 2-3 within other countries........
prosperity will prevail within few years so give this country a few more time....see, i'm not that typical vehement guy refusing to accept ur opinions but actally we r saying the same thing.....u guys r saying the glass is half empty and i'm saying glass is half full....
Excuse me,Quote:
Originally Posted by MADDY
When did I ever tell US is my idea of a perfect country :o
Re-read my posts again,I repepatedly stress that there is no need to compare ourselves with any other country.We are intelligent enough to understand our problems,it's just that we seem to lack the will&unity to tackle them.
Rite again Cinefan! :wink: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Cinefan
Its true tat the middle class today- leave alone the upper class- seldom spares a thot to wat life means to the ppl. living below the BPL (Below Poverty Line).
Also for eg. when the media reports tat no. of ppl. below BPL has been reduced to around 35%, the govt. reports insist tat its only 29% comp'd to the 60% in the mid '50s.......the fact is tat their no. is decreasing very slowly indeed! :(
Whether we see such ppl. in reality in our daily lives or on sum foreign documentary on TV, most of us tend to feel ashamed......or even abashed at the thot tat many of those foreigners from Nat. Geo/ Discovery channel etc. wud see us as citizens of the same country as these wretched ppl.......we usually forget whoz really responsible for them being like this......
From wat I read in the book "The great Indian dream" by Arindam Chaudhry, 50 million tonnes of food grain is said to be locked up & rotting in the warehouses of Food Corpn. of India! enuff to feed all the 350 mil. below BPL for the next 2-3 years.......!
Also stated tat if, in fact, all the food grain sacks lying unused in our warehouses were to be packed one after another , they wud be enuff to make a path to the moon & back! :shock:
Yet we face so many mils. of starving Indians in our country.......!
cinefan, by referrring "u guys", i mean all those who think India is doing bad not just u....okkk :D
Lord, even i have read that book, infact it is a very shameful situation but hope after having good PM's for 10 yrs(A.B.Vajpayee & Manmohan Singh), such things wont happen again in India.......okkk guys i'll jot down the problems that i feel India is currently facing......pls reply with ur comments and points that u feel is sinking India.......if there is any economist/HR graduate here, then he can provide a mock-solution for them...
1.Ill-literacy & child labour
2.Population ( which i think is a by-product of ill-literacy)
3.Lop sidedness of economy (ex: compare ambani and the beggar on the street...this shuld go)
4.Goverenment officials
wat say guys???
Hey MADDY welcome to the "willing to accept" gang :lol: just joking.Quote:
Originally Posted by MADDY
Yup you have put the major problems we r facing today beautifully in a nutshell.
But I do think that all are problems are mainly due to population.
Its bcoz of our population ,that there are people below the poverty line..due to which there is illiteracy which in turn gives rise to child labour,job scarcity,etc
Its also due to the population that there is so much competition ,which in turn gives rise to corruption etc etc.
If we manage to reduce our population rate then I am sure we will bring down our other problems too.What do you guys think?
wow!!!!!!!!
ssanjinika found a way to please everybody and get away from the problem.
Yeah, let us blame it on the population for everything as ss' says!
BTW, what is the population density in Japan?! They seem to have quite a lot of people in few small islands. Are they better or worse than us? :roll:
Why blame population for everything? Isn't it good to have more human resources, after all ? Some countries are worried about their declining human resources. I am not saying we shouldn't control population. Why not just make use of the highly availble "man/woman power" and stop complaning about the "existing population"?
Yup, tick mark for all of em..... :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by MADDY
The last 2 esp. r the most harrowing problems we r currently facing......when I was studying my Dip. in biz. admin. in Sing., there was this lecturer of mine, a half-Chinese half-Indian, who was apparently very proud of the fact tat in Sing. the social gap between rich & poor isn't tat wide.......(and yea I've seen even beggars/vagabonds there looking fully clad & like they can eat atleast a square meal a day)......he always took delight in scoffing at India, Indonesia etc. in this regard....... :evil:
IMO, this lop-sidedness exists partly bcos of increasing popularity of privatisation/free market system where individual gains connected w/ this system r more.....therefore those who r intimately associated w/ this sytem r likely to gain more in less time........plus increasing consumerism where its become a rat-race to keep up w/ those who can afford a certain sumthin.......unlike b4 where the main emphasis was on basic necessities......
IMHO, another reason I mentioned earlier- ppl. in certain professions like IT & MBAs can end up w/ well-paying jobs (& thus seem to be the get-rich-quick types) whereas ppl. in various other professions like Arts etc. cannot hope for decent-paying jobs- if at all they can get jobs! even if they take up such subjects purely out of their own interest.........so today the word 'IT prof.' or 'MBA' has become a synonym for a successful, capable and respectable person in society! They r the guys who r picked by girls' fathers for marriage alliances.....!
So, I repeat tat this syndrome has to go........'cos every person has a right to get a decent job in watever field he/she in int'd in.......all shudn't be forced to study only IT/software or MBA jus bcos hi-paid jobs r available in those......hence a successful economy is only where ppl. of ne & every profession can afford to get jobs/respect in society........it is so in most of the developed countries......y can't it happen in ours??
Unftly a high populn. doesn't nec. promise a high availability of quality manpower.......only a certain no. can be fit to serve as human resource.....not to mention tat our country is one of those suffering from the largest amount of 'brain-drain', i.e, losing many skilled workers to countries tat r already developed.........eg. (again quoted from the book I mentioned) while we hav one Indian doctor for every 2400 Indians we hav 1 Ind. doctor serving 1325 Americans in the US! And the list has today extended to not just doctors or IT ppl. but even school teachers! :evil:Quote:
Originally Posted by ganesh79
Therefore I strongly feel tat to make use of our potential human resources, we must first think of ways to stop the brain-drain......
I needn't mention tat r various hurdles created by the gov.t as well as individuals in employment, viz. reservations, job availability based on influence/bribery etc. which need to go.......these r the actual hurdles even more than the high populn. as even in our high populn., 30% r still illeterate......so once a way is paved for equal employment oppurtunities, even the cut-throat competition level wud come down, thus ensuring the 70% of educated ppl. fair oppurtunities.......
Also ensure better technologies tat wud tempt the highly skilled profs. to stay back in India........esp. in Medical field.......while the state of Govt. hospitals is nowhere upto matching current day medical standards, private hospitals offer better treatment/facilites only at hi-rates tat r not reachable to the avg. masses.......so the Govt. shud not hesitate to spend on developing the infrastructure of Govt. hospitals......such tat most if not all Ind. docs. shud be encouraged to serve in them rather than looking for greener pastures in the UK etc........!