This is typical rant we have been hearing for decades. You are simply neglecting all the progress made. India has lifted millions out of poverty .
Just using a temporary pandemic situation to paint a picture is not germane. Entire world has suffered the consequences of this pandemic.
How India actually fared can only be known after sensational news ends and sober analysis of excess death toll is done.
Unemployment out of this temporary factories are already opening up and we will be facing shortage of manpower soon enough.
IT companies are already forced to give double hikes because competition for talent has already become fierce.
escaped from poverty into what ? Statistics is a great tool to fiddle around with. Indeed a lot of people have escaped poverty but not into prosperity, rather into a state of vulnerability where they risk falling back into poverty incase of a major crisis. This is what we are witnessing right now.
And you made me laugh with your unemployment statement.Job opportunities are next to none and salaried jobs are a distant dream for the majority.
I am from engineering and manufacturing sector,the very sector that the government is trying to prop up with make in India dream .let me show you the mirror of reality.
Most companies are not looking at mass hiring .Rather they are actively seeking to replace men with machines where ever possible.AI enabled machines which are being deployed in large numbers will ultimately end not just repetitive jobs but those jobs that requires human supervision.
Therefore the government's dream of shifting the huge surplus agricultural labour force to industries will remain a pipedream.
On the top most companies love to hoodwink the system. Amongst the few people they do hire mostly consist of contractual workers and apprentices, most of whom are paid little above daily wage labourers and with scant employment benefits.
Neverthless jobs are still being created but is simply not enough to keep up with the growing population.
No body is hungry despite whole nation on lockdown for almost a year now. Food is flowing freely. Health system was overwhelmed for while and is now improving very fast. Infrastructure is being build at speeds never seen before both in health sector and transport sector.
Is this supposed to be a joke ? have you looked at India's performance in global hunger index ? Perhaps you didn't realize that 70% of India lives in villages,have you ever looked at the dilapidated conditions there?
In the previous statement i talked about primary care,do you know what it means ? It's the shear lack of healthcare workers,doctors,medical and sanitary equipment because of which many people needlessly have to die from easily preventable causes.
Had India concentrated on primary healthcare instead of building apollo and fortis for the rich,it would have seen low infant and maternal mortality rates and certainly fewer dying of lack of beds and oxygen supply .
In Contemporary India so called bimaru states have now learnt to spend on infrastructure that is why UP is all covered by expressways and bihar is building bridges after bridges everywhere . While old leaders like benagl and tamilnadu are stagnant due to excessive regional politics and parochial views.
Even pakistan has one of the best expressways in South Asia which was built by south korea but still the country is a laggard in socio economic development.
So don't be under an impression that building roads and bridges alone will solve the issues.What UP and Bihar needs is a comprehensive socio economic development because as i said before those roads have no meaning if a woman is unable to travel freely even in daylight conditions.
And i sincerely hope BIMARU states develop and maybe beat TN and WB because their constant underdevelopment is pulling India back.
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