There are many wise men in our country! The neighbors, the
neighborhood, the city and the media say that it has rained last night but
these wise men would not believe it until you show them the evidence of rain
drops on their body. It is under such great men and their so called powerful
and pious friends and the tricky laws that they follow; our monarchy (under a
foreigner) has many distinctions. How dare we call the following distinctions listed
below dubious and something to be ashamed of. They would quote several laws and
give reasoning to say we have no right to point our fingers at them and prove they
are wrong. Beware you could be eliminated or put behind bars as it is happening
regularly in my province.
Here are some facts and statistics about our country from
responsible national and international organizations. Our wise men and their
friends in power would not accept them. To disprove the facts they would
appoint a Sri Arishna or Sri Zrishna Committee to submit a report after a year
or two to state that our country is the greatest in the world in every aspect.
Please read the following points to know where we stand among the nations of
the world:
1.
Our country accounts for
around 50 % of the world’s hungry.
2.
Our Global Hunger Index (GHI) score
is 23.7 and our rank 66 among 88 countries.
3.
34.7 % of our population lives with an income
below $ 1 a day and 79.9 % below $ 2 a day.
This means that according to international standards 34.7 % of the
population is living below the poverty line and a vast percentage is not far
from this poverty line.
4.
Current account balance of our
country is $ - 37,510,000,000 (Minus) while our neighbor with a higher
population than us China is $ 426,100,000,000 (Plus). As per this China stands
at rank 1 as the world’s wealthiest country and we are at rank 182.
5.
In the Human Development
Report released recently our ranking is 134 among 182 countries.
6.
Talking about living
conditions in our country, 89 % of rural households do not own telephones and
50 % do not have any domestic power connection. 20 % of the rural population
has partial or no access to safe drinking-water supply. And the sanitation
conditions in rural areas are at its worst.
7.
There are daily power cuts
even in major cities and towns crippling normal life and industries. While the domestic
power cuts may range from 2 hours to 8 hours per day in summer, it is 2 or 3
days a week for the industries.
8.
34 % of our population is
illiterate.
9.
Corruption is rampant in every
department even in places like hospitals and temples. It can be found
everywhere on the streets and in highest offices but it is mostly impossible to
prove its existence. Rowdies and criminals and their heirs become politicians
and soon millionaires through ill-gotten money and this business cannot be
checked.
10. Come to my province to see human rights violations. Everyone who
opens his mouth for justice or protests misdeeds is thrashed and put behind
bars.
11. Justice is delayed beyond imagination. There are millions of legal
cases pending in the country with very little hope of quick justice.
12. Our country has the highest number of street children in the world.
Child labor is rampant. Child malnutrition here is the highest in the world.
13. Discrimination against women is a lifelong tragedy, sometimes ending
very early with female fetus killing.
14. Crime exists in all parts of the country and unchecked it is on the
increase.
15. Economic crimes are virtually daily news and their investigation
goes on and on and most cases are closed or forgotten or some scapegoats are
punished.
16. Terrorists attack the country killing innocent people and very
little is done to prevent such incidents and when terrorists are caught their
trial goes on for decades and ultimately the monarchs are afraid to punish them
for reasons best known to them.
17. Suicides by farmers and many other people frustrated with the rule
of the land and false promises is a daily tragedy occurring at various places
in the country. In the past 3 years close to 700 people have committed suicide
in my province alone, as the monarchy keeps fooling them with false promises
and assurances.
18. 70 % of our population depends on agriculture, but growth in this
sector has declined from an already meager 3.8 % to 2.6 % last year.
19. Employment situation is at its worst. No serious effort is being
made to create jobs. Millions of Indians have run out of the country to eke out a living elsewhere. Any given day, go to any passport office in the
country, you will find long queues of mostly sad looking people eagerly waiting
for a passport to get out of the country.
And this list would go on and on if I do some more research on the
internet. This dubious distinction after six decades after so called self-rule
is something to be ashamed of, but not to those who are responsible for this.
They do not focus on problems but brag about a few skyscrapers, a few good
roads, a little good transportation here and there, shopping malls in big cities
and their list would be much longer than mine but how many people are really
benefited by them and finally what about the problems raised by me which affect
the majority of the rural population.
The wise men ruling us do not care; they are busy doing and covering
up their misdeeds and exploring ways to project their progeny as rulers of the
next generation.
