Women in ancient India were held in high respect. With the course of time, the status of woman got lowered. Muscle and money power started dominating the societies. And as men fought the wars and ran the ventures of industrial production, they started considering themselves superior to woman.
After the development of science and technology, the practice of female foeticide on a large scale also started. This eventually led to a slump in the female sex ratio. According to the census of 2001, the sex ratio in India is 927 females to 1,000 males. Dowry has become widespread and the birth of a girl child became inauspicious. In several parts of India, women are seen as an economic liability, even with the contribution of women in numerous ways to our economy and society. Early marriages, rape, molestation, sexual harassment, forced prostitution, eve teasing, etc are a common issue today. The crime rate against women is mounting at a startling rate.
This essay depicts how women are being exploited and how their needs are being repressed in our primarily orthodox society. It also shows how it can avoided, so that women can live freely, walk freely and talk freely.
Women & Education:
Education is one of the powerful tools in the liberation and the empowerment of women. It is the single utmost factor which can amazingly improve the position of women in any society.
The 2001 Census report shows that the literacy rate among Indian women is only 54 percent. It is almost demoralizing to observe that the literacy rate of Indian women is even much poorer to the national average of 65.38. The expansion of education for women in rural areas is very sluggish. This clearly means that still large number of women of our country is illiterate, backward, weak and exploited. In addition education is also not available to all equally which can be seen by the Gender inequality in education. The literacy rate for the women is just 54% against 76% of men according to the 2001 Census.
The phenomenon involving Women education is multi dimensional. Not one factor or cause can be held accountable for the low literacy rate of Indian women. It is related with the combination of many factors including social, economic, demographic, administrative, cultural, educational, political, etc.
Some of the important factors that can be credited for the current situation are:
- Female age at marriage: There is high connection of the female literacy rate with that of the female age during her marriage. The female age at marriage of 18 (lately 21 years) as approved by various legislations are not at all followed in India. It is very much neglected by the parents with low literacy background. This intolerable practice dejects the female children to continue their education, as they go into family life at an early age.
- Lower Enrolment in Schools: The low enrolment of girls in schools is one of the fundamental factors that stand as the tentative block for empowerment of Indian women. According to the latest statistics, two out of every ten girls in the 6 to 11 age group are yet to be enrolled in schools.
- High dropout rate of girls from schools: The occurrences of dropouts among girls mainly in slums, rural, and tribal areas are quite high. According to the latest statistics, occurrence of dropout among the girls is almost twice as that of the boys in India.
- Poor School Environment for girls: Broadly, the school environment for girls in India is really not encouraging. There are still hundreds of schools with poor essential amenities such as drinking water, improper building and inadequate number of teachers particularly the female teachers who are preferred by many parents for the safety of their girl children.
- Poverty, Bonded Labour and Child Labour Practices: This is a very discouraging factor that stands as barrier for girl’s education in rural areas and also for the underprivileged families consisting of the washer men, the agricultural labour, the tribes and the scheduled caste people. According to UN, India, with more than 50 million child labourers, is the most child labour populous nation in the globe. In most cases girl children are favored for high productivity and low cost.
- Poor Political Will and Passion: Government officers, policy makers, and politicians of our country have neither political will nor passion for the empowerment of women.
- Dowry as barrier: In many families, particularly the poor think that if their daughters are educated more, then they have to gather more property to offer as dowry at the time of marriage, so they favor to stop their children with average education.
Trafficking and Commercial sexual exploitation:
India is a source, destination and transit country for women being trafficked for the use of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Women are being held in debt bondage and are very vulnerable to forced labor working in rice mills, brick kilns, and agriculture and in embroidery factories. Girls and women are trafficked inside the country for the purpose of forced marriage and commercial sexual exploitation. They are also being used as armed combatants by some terrorist groups.
India is also a destination for women and girls from Nepal and Bangladesh trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, while the Indian women are being trafficked to the Middle East for the same purpose.
Government and NGO reports approximates that there are some hundreds of thousands to millions of women and girls being prostituted in India, most of whom are victims of trafficking. The bulk of the women being prostituted and trafficked within India are from lower (scheduled) castes and are brought into the sex trade as young as 13 years.
Exploitation of women through media:
The exploitation of women in the media has become so familiar, particularly in advertising, which most people fail to even notice it or get annoyed anymore. Women’s body is continually used to sell cars, cigarettes, liquors, male perfume and other male recognized products, as well as newspapers, magazines and television programs. In today’s society, people come across television ads such as Slice featuring Katrina Kaif, in which women are being offered in provocative manner. The camera will habitually zoom in on body parts. Society is still very much dominated by men who manage what people see. As a consequence, women are increasingly shown as sex symbols, so the media company can turn to profit. The Internet also has grown to be one of the biggest exploiters of women.
Trading on the female body - Exploitation of women for egg:
Poor women from around the globe are being seriously recruited to donate their eggs to fertility clinics and also for the cloning research. Miserably, egg donation has less to do with self-sacrifice and more to do with the exploitation of women, mainly young women and poor women who usually face large debts. Egg donation puts women’s health and her safety at risk. Trade in human egg cells is ultimately an assault on the pride of women.
Avoiding the exploitation of women:
Today modern women are so smart and self-sufficient that they can be easily called superwomen, as she copes with many fronts single handedly. Women are now intensely motivated and are showing their worth not only in the home, but also in their personal careers, and education in the society. In order to improve their status, women themselves should come forward and unite. They should draw encouragement from women like Indira Gandhi, the first woman Prime Minister of India, Kiran Bedi, India's first woman IPS officer; Pratibha patil, the first woman President of India and many others.
Adding onto that, as the social evils like dowry, child marriage, caste system and other practices deprive rights of education for children belonging to poor and underprivileged families, they should be abolished through well designed packages of mass awareness programs and social welfare measures with full support of political parties, NGOs, government agencies and public.
Indian Government should also address the fundamental issue of gender inequality and the structure that allows those most marginalized in society, mainly lower caste women and girls to be exploited for commercial sex. GoI should put programs in place to provide practical alternatives to prostitution and provide micro financing, so that they have other options to provide for themselves and their families.
A nation's progress and prosperity can be evaluated by the way it treats its women. Men must recognize and admit the fact that women are equal partners in life.
Globalization-it's a term used to actually allude to the integration of national economies into global ones through various agents like FDI,FII,capital flows, spread of technology and knowhow, or even migration. But, isn't it better to confine globalization within the realms of economic integration alone? However, on the contrary, things have turned out to be different, for, it has also started transforming individual cultures and has begun to dash out hopes of sustaining a regional identity. As the West has been the most proactive in spreading the fangs of globalization, Westernization has begun to knock on the doors of various nations which otherwise had individual national identities of their own. Citing an example, today, Indian youths are for no apparent reason attracted towards MacDonalds,KFCs or CCDs even though Indian restaurant menus could have more delicious dishes. That's just due to the lure of clinging on to something Western. Isn't this a real threat to the sustenance of nationalism of developing nations like India? Is this justified?
Nationalism is not about being over - protective towards your culture and not welcoming any change or new traits to it. Sure, you got to be proud of your heritage, because that happens to be Your identity no matter where you go in the world, but that doesn't disallow you to borrow western concepts. You see, being "westernized" doesn't mean that u r lacking in "Indianness" in any way. In fact, if you go way back in history, you'd see that the cultures belonging to the various great civilizations were "morphed", in the sense that there was nothing uniquely singular in them. The characterizations of the different civilizations were "built up" over time, through the influx and exchange of ideas from many different cultures.
It appears that hobnobbing with Western enterprises has become a favorite pastime for Indians, not because Western goods are really superb in quality but because simply, they are western. Same goes for Western music or western food habits. Is anything typically Indian left in Indian society now? It doesn't actually appear that Indian society is absorbing a hybrid culture as you opine. Rather, absolute westernization has become typically synonymous with Indian standards of living. That has at least really insulted if not threatened our national identity as a whole. The barring of free foreign trade and investments prior to Narasimha Rao depicted an orthodox India but this present situation depicts a brazen India not conscious of its losing identity.
I would say that "the flow of capital, the influx of the latest technology and knowhow, and even migration" are more significant than, say, a teenager sporting spikes and Levis Jeans! Besides, speaking practically, it isn’t feasible to "filter" globalization as such. Globalization is the right way forward, and it shouldn't raise unnecessary fears about any individual rationalistic culture being hijacked. If our heritage is rich enough, as I'm sure it is, it should and would hold it's own amidst any foreign trend that might be the "in-thing" of the day. Which is why, specifically, you still see gorgeous sarees amongst a plethora of tops-and-jeans, and which is why Irish-mach is still a mouthwatering delicacy amongst all Bengalis, no matter how many Pizza huts and Mc Donald spring up.
There are lots of ways to filter globalization. One major way, as already stated, is to limit it to economic confines alone. I mean, people should understand that it's there in the first place to upgrade developing nations but not to alter their lifestyles and cultures. Secondly, foreign organizations should always try to cater to the local market tastes to as much extent as possible while setting up their business activities in developing nations. This will not only expand their customer base but would also lead to a direct splurge in global economic activities. So, the KFCs,Wal-Marts or Carrefour would have to rethink their marketing strategies in countries like India to expand their popularity. Indirectly, this would also prevent globalization from plundering individual cultures and national identities. Even the weakest heritage shouldn't be hijacked of its attributes, for it's after all an identity.
There are those negative outcomes of globalization too which can't be just ignored, for, globalization is not a temporary local phenomenon but a permanent transformation taking place across the globe. It appears that individual identity as well as freedom have nowadays been put on the backburner as more priority is being paid to getting nations more globalized. Then, also, more attention is being paid to the metrics like GDP as promulgated by the World Bank and not upon measures like Global Happiness Index. In a fierce bid to outnumber GDP growths, many countries have indeed sacrificed their individual all-round human developments and even civil liberties, typical example of which is China. Just witness the drama of hosting the Olympics 2008 in China, for which the Chinese government has resorted to throttling citizens' individual freedoms of speech and expressions and even the right to hold individual properties and lands. It has even blocked free Internet access and the media. China's FDI has touched nearly $150 billions and is to outnumber Germany by world economic globalization standards. But would this sort of a nation be truly reflecting the spirit of a developed nation, where human rights issues have for long been sacrificed? The country is earning huge forex reserves, per capita incomes of people have risen tenfold, but people aren't earning the fruits of the globalization there,rather,they are being muzzled and strangulated.
The issue of human rights, which you brought to light, surely doesn't lie within the expanse of globalization! Even the developed European and American states have numerous Asian products, ranging from food, entertainment, etc prevailing in their markets (which can, again, be attributed to globalization). But there, you don't see this massive "shift" of cultural trends, nor any monopoly by some particular brand. This proves that globalization, viewed in the right perspective, certainly doesn’t play any role in "hijacking" regionalist entities. The fact that a certain portion of the Indian masses tend to go overboard with western ideas and products, made available to them due to increasing globalization, indicates various flaws in the way we "percept" all things foreign. In a bid to "rectify" this, the answer lies not in banning or discouraging the use of western concepts or to stem the rate of globalization, instead efforts must be made from within to uphold our own culture and heritage to make us value and cherish them, and not undermine them when tantalized by the sights, sounds, tastes and feel of foreign made products.
That very massive shift in cultural trends isn't appreciable in developed nations because there, people know that they are born in a superior nation state. The particular trend of marauding of individual cultures is prominent in developing nations and that's mostly because these nations are getting subservient to the globalization ideals. People here tend to be more culturally insecure as they are obfuscated about the presence of economic prosperity on one hand and presence of an individual identity on the other. The education system in our country has been designed to make people grill themselves up and imbibe academic or professional skills to circumvent others but no attention is paid to educate young vulnerable minds about nationalistic ideals. This major flaw has brought about the bitter outcome.
Also, globalization has dissolved an individual nation's decision making prowess for its own upgradation in international arena, for, it has become synonymous with Americanization. India had to forgo the Iraq pipeline in order to embrace the US nuclear deal. A better eventuality would have been if India could embrace both the deals of its own accord, but current circumstances in the lexicon of globalization don't warrant this. Somehow, the "superpower" concept appears to be still prevalent due to which nationalism is under further threat. This needs to be changed as well. Americanization is a fact of modern day scenario and you got to live with it, globalization, or not. Every culture is wholesome in it and vastly vary. Therefore the thought that the culture prevalent in a developed nation is "superior" to that in a developing nation is wrong. Hence the question of "insecurity" and the consequent marauding of cultures, as you stated, doesn’t arise.
I aver that globalization's all-round merits are not being realized today due to the presence of these barricades like Americanization. The failure of the WTO talks recently further elaborates the aspect of how the Western World dominance prevailing today has degraded the actual globalization scenario all have been dreaming of, wherein nationalism as well as free trade could have coexisted simultaneously. That's not the fault of this golden keyword, but, rather the established system that has come to be associated with it. But, in fear of economic boycott or being segregated from the globalization chain, the developing nations don't possess the grit to challenge this system either. As for instance, India is unable to challenge China's claim over its lands in fear of hurting its trade with this communist regime.
The real problem lies not in "globalization" itself, but rather in the faulty way people percept it, courtesy the Americanization induced inferiority complex. To rectify this, efforts could be made to education people on their nationalistic ideals so that they are well equipped to deal with issues when confronted with a plethora of globalization - impregnated ideals. At least, this should be the right approach in India's bid to maintain it's regionalist individuality. Instead, you claim that the "golden keyword" itself needs to be distorted and curbed. Besides, from a practical point of view, if measures are taken to bar, or even reduce the infiltration of foreign goods, it would likewise result in a similar backlash in foreign countries which would hit India's economy in the foreign sector pretty bad. That is not to mention the end of numerous livelihoods of people who are employed in India by various multinational firms.
But, like I said, "preserving national identity" by banning foreign goods and brands is not the right way forward, as that would amount to "curbing" globalization, besides igniting a similar backlash in foreign countries regarding Indian goods, thus affecting a major chunk of our economy in the foreign sector. Also, as I mentioned, it would cost lakhs of jobs of people working with these foreign brands in India, which would be disastrous. All these would affect the annual GDPs and the Happiness Index, of which you lay so much stress. So definitely, instead of tinkering with the norms and limitations of globalization, the government should deal with this gradual loss of national identity through internal measures, from a grassroots level.
We don’t have to invoke any type of 'conspiracy theory' in order to attack 'globalization.It can be and has been confronted with much more sophisticated and informed debates that recognizes the huge asymmetry in bargaining powers between players today, taking part in globalization. The west maintaining its competitiveness in agriculture via huge subsidies and on the other hand arm-twisting developing countries to do the contrary is just an example in this regard and this asymmetry is what that has to be addressed. But given the global order at present it is easier said 'needs reform ' than done!
The "REFORMS" in globalization
We are always blaming others for our own debacle, but who’s fault is it that even after almost 60 years of independence, we are still not standing on our own feet, whereas other countries - both giants like CHINA or minnows like SINGAPORE have left us long back in the race. there is no denying the materialistic inclinations and entrepreneurship of Indians, but somewhere down the line - all of that gets fizzled down, simply due to the fact that the government is not supportive. Look at Europe, how can any sane person admit that it is only arm twisting policies that has kept them ahead of us, have u gone and seen what goes on there? Ok nowadays even they are facing problems, but look at their infrastructure - let's say INLAND SHIPPING. The whole of Europe is connected via canals, and it straightaway reduces the costs at least two folds! such is the power of shipping, but we - on the other hand, being a "COUNTRY OF RIVERS" still don’t have even a namesake system like that and it's their fault that they are ahead of us!?! Mr. Charles Darwin once had propagated the theory of "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST"- I guess in this modern world of ours, no other theory holds good in so many facets of our lives. You go global or don't go - if you r fit, you will survive, and continue to multiply, otherwise, perish like the great old civilizations. Now it's up to us, which choice do we make. Nobody’s perfect, and it's against the nature to be so. But every developed country has got its own peculiar strong point, based on which they have progressed. Why can't we learn from those lessons, and try to assimilate the same practices into our society? Globalization would be fun then.
Globalization is a good step in making developing countries just like our country to developed country. Its good 4 economic condition of our country. So i think it’s a great step that makes our country to stand with a good position in all over the world.Globalization today is inevitable. the world has become a global village which necessitates cultural, social and economic connectivity between different parts of the world. All the countries in the world are inter dependant. Without establishing connectivity with other countries; India will be deprived of the mutual benefits which they get.
Globalization has really helped us get the name n fame our country needed. The talent here is now going in every part of the world. It is even creating more and more jobs for Indians in every field. But on other side it has changed the way of thinking of our people to an extent. It is totally on our mentality what we want to accept and what not After all its us who control our mind. And being so we can judge what’s better for us.Main disadvantage that i see in globalization is that the cultures are lost. The nations with more economic power are powerful than other countries. Because these countries produce things that can affect the cultures of other countries. Best Example:India.In India because of globalization slowly our culture is transforming into lavish western culture.
Impact of Globalization on Indian Industry
Globalization though not a 'recent' phenomenon, it has been a source of engaging dialogue , discussions ,debates and what not. As a result there has been a tendency to masquerade it in different ways, which includes conspiracy theories as well.
"we are connected whether one likes it or not"
Today, we can communicate, we can discuss, we can share, we can spread knowledge only because of that great 'technology revolution. Had there been no interface among nations, this 'techno-rev' could well have been the 'privilege of the few' who for the first time came out with path breaking discoveries in this regard. A rational mind can sense the disadvantage that could have been caused to nations devoid of such discoveries, had it been the case. Talmud once said-"Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men." Today, the best phrase can be-Which is a wise Nation? Which gathers from, all other nations their discoveries, advancements, innovations, to its advantage. And certainly its happening. Nations are interacting, they are gathering and using other nations' development tactics to their advantage, and if this phenomenon is called globalization then be it!!
The social angle of Globalization
Globalization today has been like never before. It brings countries together, and has the power to give each individual a whole lot of opportunities which he or she didn't have before. But as of now, not everyone is able to gain access to this set of new opportunities. This is exactly where the government needs to step in. The market can only do so much.The rest has to be done by the government. Inclusive growth for one. Globalization has distanced people as much as it has brought people together. It has led to greater inequality (both economically and socially). Globalization cannot bridge this gap. No, we don't have much of a choice in globalization of the world, but we do have the choice to ensure that everyone benefits out of it and not just the privileged few.
Benefits of Globalization reaching poor
Once P.Chidambaram was talking about inclusive growth and globalization. He was saying that the benefits of globalization will take time to reach the people who stay in the bottom of the triangle and UPA government was working on making such growth resulted because of globalization inclusive to reach the benefits of growth to the poor and marginalized sections of our people.At that time I had this doubt, how long will it take to reach the poor? Will our bureaucrats and politicians and profit obsessed industrialists let that happen? Will Indian economy sustain its growth until then?So where are we? Have the benefits actually reached the poor already? If yes, to what extent? And can we say that without globalization, would we have acheived the same result?If no, what to do?
First, we must understand what constitutes "benefits" of globalization. And then, the answer to the question, "does it help the poor?" logically follows.
1) Globalization helps Indian companies get better access to outside markets thereby increasing their throughput, which indirectly requires more people to be recruited.
2) Globalization helps MNCs to start investing in India, thereby creating new jobs, which the poor can choose to join (Case in point: I was poor as a kid and got a job in an MNC fresh out of college. This wouldn't have been possible if that MNC didn't setup a shop in India. The MNC wouldn't have come to India if India didn't open up).
3) Globalization helps increase consumption putting more money in the circulation and more taxes for the government. The government can use that for its welfare schemes.
But, all these would be of no use if people don't come forward to access the new avenues of opportunity and if the government doesn't promote education and create awareness of the opportunities.
we can now successfully conclude this by unanimously opining that globalization with nationalism is better than simply either globalization or nationalism. Orthodoxy with respect to either side can jumble things up and can in no way lead to a universal development of this globe, the real “development" of culture as well as economy we are concerned about.
seven months should be reached to the beleaguered Tamil brethren in Jaffna. Failing to get the Centre and the state government to move the Red Cross for transporting the essentials to the battered Tamil areas of north Sri Lanka, the Tamil nationalist attempted to take boats himself from Nagapattinam on Wednesday for delivering the goods across the Palk Strait. The much-publicised voyage failed to take off as the government ensured no fisherman gave his boat for what seemed a hopeless adventure, particularly after Colombo warned that its Navy would take care of any incursions into its waters. Some years ago, Mr Nedumaran attempted a similar mission and brandishing a tiny Vel (sword-like weapon of Lord Muruga) had climbed onto a broken boat by the Rameswaram fishing jetty to sail to Lanka and redeem the Tamils from the Sinhala regime. A few of his followers fell into the water and were picked up by the local fishermen, while the leader himself gave up his planned "invasion." All this is not to belittle these demonstrations that only serve to highlight the Lankan Tamil cause, which must distress any civilised society across the world willing to spare a thought for the thousands of innocent victims of the violence battering this beautiful island for the last two decades and more. Colombo may be right in arguing that it does not need any outside supplies since it has ensured there is enough food and medicines in the Tamil areas, but what about the numerous complaints of murder, abduction and other serious
human rights violations, often allegedly perpetrated by either the government forces or the Tamil paramilitary outfits functioning
as satellites of the state?
The LTTE has presented a detailed report before the UN Human Rights Council to allege that more than 1,974 Tamil civilians have been killed and 842 others either arrested or abducted since President Mahinda Rajapaksa has come to power in November 2005.The Tigers have demanded that the UN human rights officials visiting Sri Lanka during October-December this year should also include the Tamil areas in their itinerary. Perhaps Mr Nedumaran and his associates on this side of the sea can focus on this human rights issue rather than insisting on ferrying across rotting rice and "expired" medicines
Poverty is one of the root causes of terrorism because poor people are exploited by terrorists. Terrorism could be curbed to a large extent if we could alleviate poverty.poverty can be alleviated in 2 ways.
1. Economically-poverty in not in beggars. Poverty is in people who spend lots of energy, but receive less. They need not get anything that changes their economic pattern. They need to get something that makes sure their current economy is not degraded and that their economy is gradually uprising- slow but steady. Their basic amnesties must be fulfilled and they need to get whatever they spend in that way, we can eradicate the poverty.
2. Emotionally- when we are not in a position to provide an economic support (money or materials), we r surplus with one thing – humanity. we shall render our humanity to them. we shall recognize their position in society. We shall acknowledge their equality in biological terms. Without any discriminations. We shall give them special provisions in anything that are equal to all mankind. We shall live with them with peace, harmony and brotherhood that will also eradicate the concept of poverty.
The main reason is social injustice and disparity with regards to India and Pakistan where business tycoons and industrialists are building and expanding their business empires but are not willing to spend a tiny proportion of their wealth for the welfare of their fellow citizens who are dying of hunger and disease every day!!
I think that poverty has been a major issue towards Indian society post independence. The elite class has become more elite and poors remained poor. Apart from this reality there are some more major issue concerned with this like population pressure, illiteracy etc which acted as the causal agents of poverty. The governments always aimed at filling their pockets only. None of them thought seriously about the common masses. No honest programs were implemented to curb this bane. The result can b clearly seen. The only solution is possible in a socialist society. Government should aim at implementing more and more programs so that rural poverty can be eradicated. I strongly feel that middle class can play a major role in this. They can come forward for promoting education among the masses.Altough it is difficult but not impossible.
The only thing that can remove poverty is Education.It is only illiteracy that give rise to such big problems.We can at least try to teach labour class we come across daily.It can be even our housemaids this this the way they can be made at least aware of problem first then we can think of next step.
There are too many positive abstract terms that has valuable answers to eradicate poverty. But what do we have now. Its not about Ignorance. but innocent enough to ignore innocence. Not about mass education, without even coming down in terms with the rituals of life.Not every dream that can be interpreted wisely, can be played in action. To start with, I guess (just a suggestion)spread the message to everyone you know. Since we are all educated, we can think radically!. A piece from my life. Few years before, I pledged not to eat (for example chocolate cake, why because there are million s of people out there, who never had a chance to even think of how a cake would look like! ) and other resolutions. Why because i read Gandhi's autobiography and watched some movies which depicted poverty, which i don't even remember now. I am sensitive:).I carried it for 2 years. But then, things changed and last week i bought a book on Italian cuisine and now i am planning to cook something new. Why i am saying this because, its not always about big things and positive terms. Simple things can be tried. spread message about poverty. Everyone one of us know the statistics. Prevalence rate.We pass through beggars. We see turbidity in life. What difference does it make? What difference we bring in?
I think India is the one of the country which the most explosive matter is poverty. there are lots of report come out in middle on poverty. but i htink in India thre 30 percent people comes under below poverty line.following below suggestion to remove poverty from india
1. Only one from a family must work as an government employee.
2. Till 16 years the child of India should be in under of government including all facility Food education, and all which is need of them.
3. Reservation on the basis of poverty not on caste..
4. There should be some changes in thinking of Indian politician.
5. Providing free education.
6. Part time job opportunities while education.
7. Evening schools and colleges.
8. Providing them basic needs free of cost or in justice rate.
9. Business mans and rich people should donate at least 1-2 % of their annum income.
10. People like us should use those donated money into the correct way.
It is a global problem. But developing countries like India, brazil and African nations are its worst victims. for poverty in India, whatever has to be done has to be through the system established. Putting a check on it through the government of India, i consider is a bit difficult as one really cant rely on the policies of a co-alition government which concentrates more on completing its tenure rather than concentrating on basic issues of development .Promoting Ngo's and creating awareness amongst citizens is what i think can be most useful. it will surely provoke the responsible citizens for betterment of the poor.
Even more than 50 years after independence from almost two centuries of British rule, large scale poverty remains the most shameful blot on the face of India. India still has the world’s largest number of poor people in a single country. Of its nearly 1 billion inhabitants, an estimated 350-400 million are below the poverty line, 75 per cent of them in the rural areas.
What i believe without the involvement of common masses (ho r rich n financially stable ) it is difficult to overcome this problem. Single mindset against poverty is the rigid solution. we are not yet prepared to eradicate poverty .
I say Corruption has to go! Every where politics is playing a vital role! Politics is another important factor affecting poverty!. There are not one! Billions of black dots in the map of poverty that has to be removed to make poverty open!. I mean that poverty is not alone!. It has many brothers and sisters who help him become stronger and stronger. Am not being funny but being simple in my language! My suggestion for eradication of poverty is STOP CORRUPTION IN SOCIETY!
Why are rural people poor?
Lack of access to productive assets and financial resources, and inadequate support for micro enterprise development are major causes of rural poverty in India , along with high levels of illiteracy and poor health and extremely limited access to social services.
In forest areas, where many tribal people live, the loss of entitlement to resources is a major cause of poverty.Coastal fishing communities are among the poorest of the poor. Living conditions among fishing communities are deteriorating as a result of environmental degradation and stock depletion.Women generally are the most disadvantaged people in Indian society, but their status varies significantly according to their social and ethnic backgrounds. Women and children are particularly vulnerable to the spread of HIV/AIDS from urban to rural areas. At the end of 2002, about 4.6 million men, women and children in India were living with HIV/AIDS.
Where are India's rural poor people and who are they?
Poverty is variously distributed among India's states. It is entrenched in parts of the populous northern states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, and extends to the eastern states of Assam, Orissa and West Bengal.
Poverty is also strongly associated with ethnicity and culture, and is highest among scheduled castes and tribes in rural areas. While poverty has declined overall in the last decade, among these groups it has decreased to a much lesser degree. Large numbers of India 's poorest people — about 50 per cent of scheduled tribes and 40 per cent of scheduled castes — live in the semi-arid tropical region. In those areas shortages of water and recurrent droughts impede the transformation of agriculture effected elsewhere by the Green Revolution.
There is a high incidence of poverty in flood-prone areas, such as those extending from eastern Uttar Pradesh to the Assam Plains, and especially in northern Bihar.
Our country is plagued by religious, cultural, economic and social differences. All of these are a political weapon. We have witnessed some of the most shameful events carried out in the name of religion and so on. What i mean by mutual respect and tolerance is tolerance and respect for different religious and social group without any bias. We cannot bring about a change by mud slinging. What we need is real action which cannot be achieved simply by sitting down in our comfort zone and interpreting our datas and ideas about poverty or social change. We have lots of talkers but very few want to go ahead with the real task.
Population is another reason:
Een if in few years they are able to develop the infrastructure for 1.3 billion then population will be 1.6 billion. So this seems like an never ending story. Elections are over, none of the parties or leaders have the guts of speaking on population control..Continious rise in population is the biggest threat to our nation.
we have problem with security cause our forces find it impossible to keep a check on every citizen. As a ordinary citizen it is our right to use the government health facilities. This has promoted private clinics so much that doctors do not need to work at government hospitals. It is BJP or Congress I have not any seen any bold or major steps by any party to handle these problems.Maybe its jst out of the hands of anyone to control all this.Day by day Nothing seems to be improving, rather things are becoming worse.
India as a developed country well god knows. When nobody is bothered about any core issues .how can anyone expect our nation to be developed by 2020 or any further.The simple answer to poverty in India even after India is heading to rise as a super power is the development activities are not reaching the bulk masses. More than 75% of the Indian livelihood depends on agriculture or unskilled labors and we know the development activities are beneficial to the educated or at least for those who are able to read. But in a country where more than 1/3 rd of the population even doesn’t cant find enough job to have 3 times meals a day. How can we expect to eradicate poverty from our nation?.
We take pride as an Indian, but it is time to examine are we real Indians? We forms ,those who can at least read what we write in this columns , a small part of our huge population. The real face of an Indian( who represents at least 75% of our population) is quite different from the world we live in. They cant read , write , have proper food ,shelter and minimum education , doesn’t even know what rights they have as a citizen of one of the worlds biggest democracy..
Am not here to express how pathetic is the situation of bulk of our population, but to underline the fact that bulk of our population doesn’t have enough voice to change their situations. But the irony is that their voting power only decides who should rule the country .But still they don’t have any power to change their situation. They are just manipulated as 'vote banks' and i suspect politicians have a hidden idea of keeping the uneducated masses as such as they can be easily manipulated for election victories in the name of few benefits or communal rivalries. So I think the only solution is that we, who are minorities but enjoyers bulk of the banalities of our nations development , should make sure that the huge mass of our fellow Indians should also get the benefits of what our mother India is giving us. If we are not doing then its some thing like if a mother has 10 children and have 10 plates of meal every time , only 2 of them eats all the 10 meals , becomes fat by leaving other 8 die of hunger. Can any mother imagine that ?So if we really love our country we should join hands to help the uneducated and under develped classes of our society whom even our governments don’t care of. But how?
Here comes the importance of NGO's like proposed . How many times can we really feed some one for free? Can a single free meal can solve a family’s life's problem? So the importance is to provide means for the unskilled and uneducated to earn for their living, to educate about their rights and more importantly to make sure that their children get proper education to enjoy at least what we enjoy now ..
To getup early in the morning is one of the good habbits. We all know this truth & also know that implimenting this habbit is difficult.
To those who wants to earn the habbit of getting early, here are some hit tips...
• Think of a valid good reason to get up early, like morning walk, radio or even a good program on TV, something that will attract you. Keep this aim in your mind while sleeping at night.
• Sleep early in the night, so that you can complete your sleep & which will make it easy to get up in the morning.
• Sometimes Eight hours sleep also don’t seems enough, for that intentionally skip different types of thoughts & try to sleep calm & quite. Keep your mind blank.
• Use Alarm, you must getup when alarm rings, don’t use snooze option & then see.
• Never think of sleeping again for 10 more minutes, eliminate this habit of being in bed after you wake up.
• When you wake up jump off from the bed, this will make you fresh & you will not feel sleepy anymore.
Try to follow the above experiments for getting up early, & let me know if it works… It will definitely.
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