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here is our first topic - " helping hands are better than praying lips"
" Helping hands are better than praying lips" - said by Mother Teresa may at first seems like a simple quote, but on thinking about it more keenly, it simply defines the purpose of Humanity and also the purpose the saint lived for her whole life.
We are living in a society where people die more of hunger and disease than by natural calamities. Deccan Herald termed India as hunger capital pf the world with approximately a fourth of its population undernourished. India also ranks 66 out of 88 countries in Global hunger index, a report released by International food policy research institute , washington. And what are we doing, we are praying every morning before going to offices and schools and every evening for the next day. Factually speaking if prayers really helped , India would have been world power in 1920 itself, we are too engrossed in ourselves to look around us and see pain of others and even if we do , we hardly do anything to alleviate that pain. Instead of donating 1000 crores of rupees to temples , churches , Mosques, why don't we give it to his sons who are dying of hunger everyday, may be he will bless us more for this. Actions will have to be taken done at grass root level, we as individuals will have to take initiatives for helping others for we cannot leave everything in the hands of the government . Providing free education will play a major role in this field, each of us can contribute by atleast educating poor people living around our places, these small contributions will together bring about a major change in the country . Creating employment will also be an important task , self dependency can only remove the poverty. When , though education people will become aware of the employment oppurtunities available to them, it will become eaiser to find a suitable job for the living. But till that time comes, we the priviliged ones have the responsibility of helping the needy ones around us and make sure than no more lives are taken by the devils called hunger and poverty.
If we really want our country to change , we will have to understand the importance of helping others , this will not only make lives better but also give us sense of purpose to our lives which has been lost in the deep dungeons of the corporate companies and public offices.
today's topic-
India is the second most populated country of this world. It has its own pros and cons. You need to express your own views over 'Family Planning in India'.
India is the second most populated country of this world. It has its own pros and cons. You need to express your own views over 'Family Planning in India'.
The population of a country is the number of people inhabiting it. Currently India with its 1.27 billion people is the second most populous country in the world second only to China. A big population such as India has its own set of merits and demerits. A bigger population may prove to be a boon for an economy however the same might prove to be a bane if there aren't enough resources to provide services to teeming population.
A bigger population means more consumers, more workers to work in factories and software technology parks and more soldiers to fight a war on the borders. Due to this fact a big population can be an added advantage to the economy in terms of a larger potential market and easier availability of workforce. This was an advantage for the Indian economy booming in 2009-10.
However, an increasing population living on the same land is causing increased drain on fixed natural resources the country has. More and more Indians are living below the poverty line. More than 70% of Indian people live in the countryside, in smaller villages and towns. As the rural population is becoming poorer more and more people are moving to the big cities where they live in overcrowded slums with no electricity or clean water. As a result, cities like Mumbai, Calcutta and New Delhi are exploding with people. Many have no jobs or are working on lower wages. Crowding, congestion, traffic are the by-products of the same. Worryingly this is the case with most part of out country and needs to be checked.
Some of the reasons for India's rapidly growing population are poverty, illiteracy, high fertility rate, rapid decline in death rates or mortality rates and immigration from Bangladesh and Nepal. Alarmed by its swelling population, India started taking measures to stem the growth rate quite early. In fact India by launching the National Family Planning program in 1952 became the first country in the world to have a population policy.
The family planning program yielded some noticeable results, bringing down significantly the country's fertility rate. In 1965-2009, the contraceptive usage more than tripled and the fertility rate more than halved. The efforts did produce positive results, however, failed to achieve the ultimate goal and the population of India since getting independence from Britain in 1947 increased almost three times.
Whereas India has missed almost all its targets to bring the rate of population growth under control, China's 'One Child Policy' in 1978, has brought tremendous results for the latter. The policy claims to have prevented between 250 and 300 million births from 1978 to 2000 and 400 million births from 1979 to 2010. I feel a strong family planning policy on the same lines and widespread awareness among people specially the rural through the ASHA workers can help us achieve positive results in this regard.
Topic for today :
The Indian economy and issues relating to India's national income and its composition; per capita income etc.
The Indian economy and issues relating to India's national income and its composition; per capita income etc.
William Shakespeare wrote in his playwright king Lear “So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.”
Do the economic indicators like 10th in terms of nominal GDP with $1.824 trillion and 141st with a per capita GDP of $1491 reflect the true picture of Indian economy? Or does 21.9 % of our population living below the poverty line do?
The economic indicators like GNP as a measure of National income has limitations as it excludes poverty, literacy, public health, gender equity and other measures of human prosperity. Even if the Indian economy grows faster than the BRICS countries and G6, the benefits of the growth would not be evenly distributed throughout the nation.
India's regional development has been particularly uneven, even by developing country standards. Since the 1960s, India's regional growth performance has been polarized, characterized by a high-income club and a low-income club. The rich club constitutes states such as Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab and Haryana, with the more recent additions of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The low-income club includes Orissa, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, amongst others. Worryingly, the composition of these clubs has remained largely unchanged over the last four decades.Attempts to understand this uneven growth performance have occupied a large socio-economic literature, with explanations varying from the nature of the state to planning and development, fiscal federalism, the tax system, investment, education and infrastructure, to name a few.
This scenario has worrying implications for India's economic growth and regional development. While India has experienced unprecedentedly high GDP growth rates in recent times, growth seems to have been fuelled from a few sectors of the Indian economy, and even worse, only a few states. India's growth hubs are not connected with each other—either geographically or via a particular engine of growth. With only a handful of growth hubs with no spillover effects, the distribution of employment across the states is highly skewed, leaving pockets of poverty in the poorer states.
Though the objective of establishing a socialistic society was adopted in second five year plan but truly speaking it has not yet achieved its objective.
The twelfth five year plan requires new approaches to produce the desired results. We need to enhance the capacity for growth with more mobilization of investment resources; higher investment in infrastructure through both public and PPP routes. Today India's economic growth is not generating enough jobs or livelihood opportunities. To address this we need to improve our education and training systems; create efficient and accessible labor markets for all skill categories; and encourage the faster growth of small and medium enterprises. Faster and more inclusive growth will require a rapid increase in energy consumption. Our inadequate transport infrastructure results in lower efficiency and productivity; higher transaction costs; and insufficient access to our large national market. Our health indicators are not improving as fast as other socio-economic indicators. Good healthcare is perceived to be either unavailable or unaffordable. We need to improve healthcare conditions, both curative and preventive, especially relating to women and children.
Several schemes like SWARAN JAYANTI GRAM SWAROZGAR YOJANA (SGSY), PRADHAN MANTRI GRAM SADAK YOJANA (PMGSY) , MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME (NREGS) & the most recent ROSHINI (Skill development scheme for tribal youth) started by the GOI for poverty alleviation and employment generation have not fetched satisfactory results due to insufficient resources and lack of proper implementation, active participation of poor, proper identification of poor and infrastructure.
India is now experiencing the unfortunate collateral damage of the global financial crisis and economic slowdown. It is crucial for the Indian government to use this opportunity to use expansionary fiscal policy and redirect both public and private investments towards the creation of infrastructure and the provision of basic needs. It is only with such a determined effort that any future growth will actually deliver poverty reduction. Merely increasing the income level of individual, household or group cannot claim economic growth when sections of the people are marginalized to the periphery of the society. The rapid economic growth process should accelerate the access to services like education and health services for all, especially the marginalized citizens.
Topic: The Indian economy and issues relating to India's national income and its composition; per capita income etc.
William Shakespeare wrote in his playwright king Lear “So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.”
Do the economic indicators like 10th in terms of nominal GDP with $1.824 trillion and 141st with a per capita GDP of $1491 reflect the true picture of Indian economy? Or does 21.9 % of our population living below the poverty line do?
The economic indicators like GNP as a measure of National income has limitations as it excludes poverty, literacy, public health, gender equity and other measures of human prosperity. Even if the Indian economy grows faster than the BRICS countries and G6, the benefits of the growth would not be evenly distributed throughout the nation.
India's regional development has been particularly uneven, even by developing country standards. Since the 1960s, India's regional growth performance has been polarized, characterized by a high-income club and a low-income club. The rich club constitutes states such as Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab and Haryana, with the more recent additions of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The low-income club includes Orissa, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, amongst others. Worryingly, the composition of these clubs has remained largely unchanged over the last four decades.Attempts to understand this uneven growth performance have occupied a large socio-economic literature, with explanations varying from the nature of the state to planning and development, fiscal federalism, the tax system, investment, education and infrastructure, to name a few.
This scenario has worrying implications for India's economic growth and regional development. While India has experienced unprecedentedly high GDP growth rates in recent times, growth seems to have been fuelled from a few sectors of the Indian economy, and even worse, only a few states. India's growth hubs are not connected with each other—either geographically or via a particular engine of growth. With only a handful of growth hubs with no spillover effects, the distribution of employment across the states is highly skewed, leaving pockets of poverty in the poorer states.
Though the objective of establishing a socialistic society was adopted in second five year plan but truly speaking it has not yet achieved its objective. High degree of disparity in income /wealth distribution is found in India.
The twelfth five year plan requires new approaches to produce the desired results. We need to enhance the capacity for growth with more mobilization of investment resources; higher investment in infrastructure through both public and PPP routes. Today India's economic growth is not generating enough jobs or livelihood opportunities. To address this we need to improve our education and training systems; create efficient and accessible labor markets for all skill categories; and encourage the faster growth of small and medium enterprises. Faster and more inclusive growth will require a rapid increase in energy consumption. Our inadequate transport infrastructure results in lower efficiency and productivity; higher transaction costs; and insufficient access to our large national market. Our health indicators are not improving as fast as other socio-economic indicators. Good healthcare is perceived to be either unavailable or unaffordable. We need to improve healthcare conditions, both curative and preventive, especially relating to women and children.
Several schemes like SWARAN JAYANTI GRAM SWAROZGAR YOJANA (SGSY), PRADHAN MANTRI GRAM SADAK YOJANA (PMGSY) , MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME (NREGS) & the most recent ROSHINI (Skill development scheme for tribal youth) started by the GOI for poverty alleviation and employment generation have not fetched satisfactory results due to insufficient resources and lack of proper implementation, active participation of poor, proper identification of poor and infrastructure.
India is now experiencing the unfortunate collateral damage of the global financial crisis and economic slowdown. It is crucial for the Indian government to use this opportunity to use expansionary fiscal policy and redirect both public and private investments towards the creation of infrastructure and the provision of basic needs. It is only with such a determined effort that any future growth will actually deliver poverty reduction. Merely increasing the income level of individual, household or group cannot claim economic growth when sections of the people are marginalized to the periphery of the society. The rapid economic growth process should accelerate the access to services like education and health services for all, especially the marginalized citizens
Essay : Comparison of China and India's economy.
Asia seems to be at the forefront of the world's economic growth today.It all started with the miracle story of Japan and continued with the rise of the Five Asian tigers.The last two decades has seen the emergence of China and India as major global powers.This rise has a lot to do with their impressive economic growth even in the face of global recession.
China is the fastest growing major economy in the world.Clocking impressive growth rates of over 8% in the last decade,the Middle kingdom has raced ahead of all competition .It is the second largest economy in the world (both nominal GDP and PPP) and is the largest exporter.China's large manufacturing base has fuelled this growth.Strict government control has reduced red tape to a minimum with faster clearance of major projects .China opened its doors to foreign investment in the 70's and has since then never looked back.But the picture is not all rosy.The govt's one child policy has created a aging workforce.This is a major concern as it is the young population which drives growth.Also despite the impressive economic growth,there is growing discontent among the people because of the govt's dictatorial policies .
Compared to China's rabbit,India has been a tortoise.The country after a period of sluggish growth in the 70's and the 80's opened up its economy in 1991.Impressive economic growth followed clocking 7% in the mid 2000s.The last few years has seen a slowdown with groth rates around 4-5%.Nevertheless,the economy seems steady.The main drivers behind this growth has been the services sector which contributes to two-thirds of the economy.The young ,English educated population has been at the forefront of this growth.India is currently the youngest country in the world which is a major advantage.There are major stumbling blocks though.Corruption has caused major losses with multitude of scams hitting the news in the last decade.The govt's credibility has taken a beating.The widening current account deficit is another cause for concern.India is still a net importer and its exports are woefully short.The Rupee is one of the most weakest currencies in the world.
Apart from the above points,both the Asian giants face some common issues. Income inequality is rampant in both the countries. China's economic growth is limited to its East and centre.The western provinces of Xinjiang and Tibet are woefully poor.In India too ,the BIMARU states of North and Central have seen virtually no growth.There is a huge divide in urban and rural incomes in both the nations.China's per capita income is a low 9000$ while India is even worse at 3000$.
Nevertheless,there are silver linings to both the clouds.China's govt has relaxed its 'one child policy' .The general elections in India this year could prove to be a watershed.Major credit agencies like S&P;'s and Moody's have predicted that India's gdp rate would increase.China's growth seems to be robust.Both these great civilizations have their fare share of problems.But both these great nations have the ability to rise above all shortcomings.
With a change of guard in both these nations happening,economic growth could well witness its second spring.The world is watching with bated breath because a prosperous 'Chindia' means a prosperous World!!
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