There cannot be two INDIAS !( THE UGLY TRUTH -2 )

This is the second article in the series in which i believe that the real INDIA is not developing. In the last article i wrote about how stark difference is there in the literacy as shown according to the government and still there are more than 50 percent people in some states which cant even read and write and this is the state of the country which is supposed to be the next superpower and is considered with the biggest army in terms of doctors and engineers.


The definition of below poverty line as per the Government of India, poverty line for the urban areas is Rs. 296 per month and for rural areas Rs. 276 per month, i.e. people in India who earn less than Rs. 10 per day. As per GOI, this amount will buy food equivalent to 2200 calories per day, medically enough, to prevent death. and according to The World Bank's definition of the poverty line, for under developed countries, like India, is US$ 1/day/person or US $365 per year. As per this definition, more than 75% of all Indians are, probably, below the poverty line!


According to an excerpt from an article dated 9 September 2010 "There's an expectation of bumper crop production, the immediate worry remains where to store the grains. India, the world's second-largest rice grower, may reap a bumper harvest of 100 million metric tons in 2010-11, up 10% from a year earlier thanks to more plantings in productive regions and better adoption of high-yielding seeds. Summer rice planting until Sept. 2 rose 6.6% to 31.87 million hectares thanks to normal monsoon rains, official data showed. " 


Generally we read these kinds of articles . Ours is a country in which a government can lost its power because of the price hike in onions and most of the year we claim that the production has been very good this year and what not . But the ugly truth is still in our very own country kids are dying of malnutrition.


The World Bank estimates that India is ranked 2^nd in the world of the number of children suffering from malnutrition, after Bangladesh (in 1998), where 47% of the children exhibit a degree of malnutrition. 
The prevalence of underweight children in India is among the highest in the world, and is nearly double that of Sub-Saharan Africa with dire consequences for mobility, mortality, productivity and economic growth.


Under-nutrition is more prevalent in rural areas, again mainly due to low socio-economic status. Anemia for both men and women is only slightly higher in rural areas than in urban areas. For example, in 2005, 40% of women in rural areas, and 36% of women in urban areas were found to have mild anemia.


According to statistics 36%  of people are below poverty line and the concern is the state governments contradicts and feels this figure is less than the actual one. According to an program it is decided the food grains are first kept for below poverty line people and then are allocated to APL people. But the matter of fact is it is just on papers.


We say we had a bumper crop but the people are hungry. Kids are dying due to malnutrition who are considered the backbone of the country. Still the next superpower cant provide its people with two square-meals . Is this the INDIA for which the freedom fighters lost their lives that even after 64 years of Independence people of this country go hungry to their bed. These are just questions and we have the answers. We don't need one Anna hazare we need thousands of them working in different fields.

THE UGLY TRUTH

Here i would love to talk with statistics and figures and please don't mind if you feel its irritating and if you think its worth sharing and worth thinking about please just think for a minute or two and at least do something or start supporting which is something worth it . INDIA considered as the next god damn superpower in almost all the articles we read ..we feel proud after reading these kind of things and kind of wait for the 2020 to come and after an hour or so not even bother to think and care about. We the people are just laid back douche-bags at times nothing more than that.
We say India will be the superpower by the year 2020 or some say by 2030 but right now it seems just a dream for me. Personally i don't think we are doing enough or even the government is doing enough to fulfill the dream.


Lets talk about literacy in India we say 72% of our population is literate according to 2011 census and according to constitution literacy is defined for a person if he is able to read and write and that is fair enough..While these figures are just fair enough , the picture gets worse when one counts the real literacy attainment of people classifies as literate.

“A study by ORG-CSR (2003) conducted in rural villages across five states—Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, and Gujarat—confirms the low skill attainment levels of many literates in India. To share some key findings on reading, print awareness, writing, and functional aspects of ability with the written word in Hindi: 68.2% perceived themselves to be literate.

1. Based on their reading of an extremely simple paragraph from textbooks at 2nd to 3rd grade level, the field surveyors classified the sample as: 12% who can read with ease, 36.3% who made mistakes or read with a range of reading difficulties, and 51.7% who could not read at all.
2. Faced with a square block of Hindi text printed centered on a square piece of paper with no other graphical indicators of beginning, ending, or page orientation, 37.4% could not hold the printed matter in the proper orientation for reading. After this was shown (or known), 42.5% could not point to the end of text. Half the sample could not move their finger to delineate the left to right direction of print and a nearly equal proportion could not move from the end of one line to the beginning
   of the next line immediately below.
3. Only 37.5% could write their full name correctly, 15.1% could write it partially or with mistakes, and 47.4% could not write it at all.
4. Reading the bus board, one of the most common encounters with print in village life, was, by their own admission, not possible for 51.9%. Self-reports on other functional aspects inform us that 56% could not read a newspaper, 54.8% could not read le tters, and 56.7% could not write a letter themselves.

This is the state of the literacy in India and i will keep on posting issues in a series....believe it or not the fact is only the cities are growing and its just made up things that India is developing.