Friday, January 14, 2011

Urbanised and rich India..but rural and gareeb bharat..

I read a report on Urbanising India today-published by Mckinsey. The facts and figures provided were quite astounding but it was a reality of the new vibrant and developing India...By 2030,590 million of Indian hoi polloi(people).. will be living in cities...twice that of poulation of USA...and one of Indian states to show this trait will be our own Punjab..where more people will be migrating from their villages or in desi language..their pinds to cities...Its very nice and lofty in way to think about that future..considering yourself as part of many Indian Urbanites...but as conditions are today...do add more chaos and mayhems to your urbanite dreams because its going to be a harsh relaity rather then a fantastic truth...

Indians are not fit, character wise to live like people in US or China or Europe..or name any beautiful landscape you think off...Corruption, over population,price rise, lack of infrastructure, health problems have already marred India...and by next decade, these problems will be infecting our roots..our next generation will be cursing us....Lets start with the data below

India just spends 0.2 % of its GDP on health and that too 78% of the health budget has to be borne by us privately...20% of rural population never care to go to a doctor....there is just 1 hospital bed for 1000 people...what you can expect now in 2030 ??it will be nice for us to start saving now for your health or buy a health insurance!!

Infrastructure is lacking like anything...though we have not so world class cities today and take pride in Delhi's roads, its metro...n in our Mumbai-city of dreams..but the cities have already reached to their peaks....and living there is just like filling an over-flowing pot..we have our IT hubs today like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune. Gurgaon to name few...some of them are already developed n some of them are developing..but at such a slow pace...that you will find yourself in queue on the very first day of their use...may never get a chance to use the infrastructire...beacuse high density of people depending on it...

Problem of Price rise viz. of vegetables, milk and other FMCGs...things that are of daily use and vital necessaity for a common Indian has put a burden on our pockets...the problem has attained such a horrendous shape..that even govt. is feeling helpless now on to how control this menace...Food inflation is at its peak since last 2 years....same with petrol prices....these things are becoming as precious as gold today.....Montek Singh Ahluwalia says that price rise is a symbol of India's prosperity in terms of our spending power.....but he does n't see the fact that spending is increasing because everything is priced at such astronomical numbers that even one month's salary will fall short to compensate the spending...

Corruption to the tune of Rs 20 lakh crores has led to our free-fall to bottom of Global Corruption Index..today we are compared with the likes of those poorest of poor African countries where people fight or bribe officials for 2 meals of day.....Everyday..one scam or the other takes our notice....and we start cursing our polity and bureaucrats...Such money if spent on development of infrastructure, providing relief to poor could have done wonders till now but its all doing wonders in the coffers of those babus who have sucked up this money like highly starved termites...

Everyday, every common Indian..in someway or the other....faces these problems....gets harrased...and then after just cursing the bad people..we sleep to again get harassed the next day...those whom we take as responsible, show their chalta hai attitude and leave the people in unending misery...

Its all our responsiblity....to take things in our hands now...and eradicate these problems...promote those people to administrative posts who owe their responsibilty to us to change our lives and make them livable...who can earn our daily praise instead of curses of daily harrassment....A massive change in our chalta hai character has to be infused form inside all of us...to be more practical and stop being ingenuous..about our surroundings.....If we can walk the path of this change with strictist possible adherence to the rules...we can definitely have a comfortable future for our kids...for ourselves..for everyone..

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