More than 40 per cent of India, a country of more than a billion people, live on less than US$1 a day, many surviving without electricity or running water.
According to government statistics, barely half of rural Indian homes have electric lights and only four percent have refrigerators. Hundreds of debt-burdened farmers have committed suicide in south India over the past two years, crippling water shortages are increasingly widespread across the country and the schooling system barely functions in some states.
Re: Dreaming of Gucci in an India still struggling with desperate poverty
Silly Billy has selectively copy pasted lines from the link. not surprising for a pakistani "patriot" (aka inferiority complex ka maara).
More than 40 per cent of India, a country of more than a billion people, live on less than US$1 a day, many surviving without electricity or running water. But this country also has an economy growing at nearly 8 per cent, fed by its importance as a center for outsourcing and high technology.
*“It’s a question of choice,” said Singh, the royal man-about-town. “Why should Indians be denied access to the best?” *
The answer, Mr. Singh, is that it makes our neighbours who wear IEDs as fashion accesories and have a blast of a time at mosques and such, a nasty rash.
Re: Dreaming of Gucci in an India still struggling with desperate poverty
Decades of underinvestment in human development in India, concluded the United Nations in its 2005 human development report**, have yielded a grim set of statistics: half of all children remain malnourished, half of women remain illiterate, more than 80 percent of the countryside lacks access to a telephone or a toilet.**