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Can India become Super Power at 2025? |
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- India has third largest active troops in the world after China and USA
- India is largest economy by GDP after US, Eurozone, China and Japan
- India on number three on the number of doctors, scientists and engineers
- India is 6th world nuclear power of the world, after signing the Nuclear deal last year
- we have world class institutes like IIT, IIS, IIM, AIIMS, XIM
- India has all the potential to achieve a growth rate of 13% which would take the 1999 per capita income of $1600 to $34,000 by the year 2025, which would be equal to the UK per capita income in 2025,
- 8% growth rate
- expected to touch 9-10% PA
- Young over 50% in the youth segment ( 16-25)
- It is a wishful thinking. In last 58 years India has more poor people, more corruption,less infrastructure but lots of population,lack of education,no innovation. What are going to be coolies of the world. I suggest the writer should read a survey on India and China in the Econmist of March 5th. A country which cannot provide even potable water or shelter or proper education cannot be world power.
- To become world power we need people with ethics and morality.The attitude of bureaucracy has to change along with leaders.We have 60% more employees than needed.Country is the most taxed nation on earth. Infrastructure is non existance.National attitude has to change and face the reality that we have squandered all the begging of last 50 years.India has been getting poorer every year. The GDP per peron is static.Labour laws are handicap to new industries.Our lsw and order in non existance and IAS,IPS,incometax,sales tax,excise,customs and other Govt officers have more wealth than their salaries. Can we stop the rot of 58 years in next 20 Years?
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- Population
- Water
- Poor People
- Corruption
- Education Problem In India
- Polution
- Child Labour
- Border Problem
- Trafic
- Naxalite Movement
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About 8,700 people every hour, 146 people every minute, and 2.5 people every second are being added to the global population…
In 1965, about 40 years ago, there were less than 500 million of us. By 2004, the population of India has more than doubled. The effect of this incredible increase has been a falling standard of living in general, shortages, untold misery and conflict. It is foolish to expect that we can provide a decent standard of living to so many in such a short time. The vast majority of us do not have adequate drinking water, sanitation, health care, education and job opportunities. The preceding statement does not even begin to indicate the amount of human misery and sorrow which it implies. It hides within it the teeming millions who suffer without the slightest hope of ever seeing a future remotely human.
By the year 2030, at the current birth rate, India would have 1700 million people, surpassing China to become the most populous nation on earth. For the present, India has an additional 16 million mouths to feed, clothe and educate every year. Even the most optimistic scenario for the future of India is daunting due to demographic momentum.
India has a higher rate of malnutrition among children under the age of three (46% in year 2007) than any other country in the world.
who is responsible for this imbalance and who are we going to complain to? Unfortunately, we have no one to thank but ourselves for the situation that we find ourselves in. |
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India has used only about 20 per cent of its hydropower potential, as compared to 80 per cent in developed countries
India's dams can store only 200 cubic metres of water per person. Other middle-income countries like China, South Africa, and Mexico can store up to 1000
In the list of 122 countries rated on quality of portable water, India ranks a lowly 120.Although India has 4% of the world’s water, studies show average availability is shrinking steadily. It is estimated that by 2020, India will become a water-stressed nation. Nearly 50% of villages still don’t have any source of protected drinking water.
Consider this the per capita water availability in India was 3450 cu m in 1952. It stands at 1800 cu m now and by estimates by 2025 it will fall to 1200 1500 cu m per person.
Summers are here and the cities in India are already complaining about water shortage not to mention many villages which lack safe drinking water. In the list of 122 countries rated on quality of portable water, India ranks a lowly 120.Although India has 4% of the world’s water, studies show average availability is shrinking steadily. It is estimated that by 2020, India will become a water-stressed nation. Nearly 50% of villages still don’t have any source of protected drinking water. |
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1/3rd of the world’s hungry live in India
5 Indians die every minute from hunger
25 lakh Indians die every year from hunger
Despite significant economic progress, 1/4 of the nation's population earns less than the government-specified poverty threshold of 12 rupees per day (approximately USD $0.25). Official figures estimate that 27.5%[14] of Indians lived below the national poverty line in 2004-2005.[15] A 2007 report by the state-run National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) found that 77% of Indians, or 836 million people, lived on less than 20 rupees (approximately USD $0.41) per day[16] with most working in "informal labour sector with no job or social security]
Rich-poor divide: The increasing gap between the rich and the poor which is particularly manifested through farmer suicides in India, a phenomenon that has become pervasive only in the last 10-15 years, perhaps because there is now the expectation of a 'good life' that did not exist before. |
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Corruption:
The corruption and corrosion of the power center in India, as a result of political parties functioning as family firms rather than open, transparent political systems.
Decline of public institutions:
This includesuniversities, police, civil services, the judiciary (except for higher judiciary) etc.
Finland remains the least-corrupt country in the world, according to the latest annual index compiled by Transparency International, a Berlin-based organisation. The index, which measures perceived levels of corruption, focuses on the misuse of public office for private gain. The United States ranks as the 18th least-corrupt country, only a little less so than Chile. Botswana is reckoned to be less corrupt than Italy.
India ranks 83 in the list of least-corrupt countries. Finland is the least corrupt and ranks first; Singapore is fifth; Botswana is ranked 30th |
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| 5.Education Problem In India |
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Many children living in rural areas receive a level of education which is very poor. Overall enrollment in primary and middle schools are very low. Fifty percent of children living in these areas leave school before the fifth grade These children leave school for variety of reasons: some leave because of lack of interest; most leave so that they can work in the fields, where the hours are long and the pay is low. A large percent of the dropouts are females. Forced by their parents, most girls perform chores and tend the family at home. These are some of the reasons why sixty percent of all females in India are illiterate, a figure much higher than those of males. As these children grow into adults, many are still illiterate by the age of forty. These uneducated adults are also reluctant to send their own children to school because of their failure in the education system. This in turn creates a problem for the next generation.
In India there are more than 100 crore people but only a third part of them are able to read. |
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| Industrialization and urbanization have resulted in a profound deterioration of India's air quality. Of the 3 million premature deaths in the world that occur each year due to outdoor and indoor air pollution, the highest number are assessed to occur in India. According to the World Health Organization, the capital city of New Delhi is one of the top ten most polluted cities in the world. Surveys indicate that in New Delhi the incidence of respiratory diseases due to air pollution is about 12 times the national average. |
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Child labor in India is a human right issue for the whole world. It is a serious and extensive problem, with many children under the age of fourteen working in carpet making factories, glass blowing units and making fireworks with bare little hands. According to the statistics given by Indian government there are 20 million child laborers in the country, while other agencies claim that it is 50 million.
The situation of child laborers in India is desperate. Children work for eight hours at a stretch with only a small break for meals. The meals are also frugal and the children are ill nourished. Most of the migrant children who cannot go home, sleep at their work place, which is very bad for their health and development. Seventy five percent of Indian population still resides in rural areas and are very poor. Children in rural families who are ailing with poverty perceive their children as an income generating resource to supplement the family income. Parents sacrifice their children’s education to the growing needs of their younger siblings in such families and view them as wage earners for the entire clan. |
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India's unresolved border disputes, especially in Kashmir and the North East (Nagaland and Manipur) which indicates that there are parts of India that are not comfortable with being part of India.
Unstable neighbour:
India's increasingly unstable neighbourhood is another serious impediment to our superpower ambitions
Border management is one of the important aspects in India’s internal as well as external security. The country has 15106.7 km of land border running through 92 districts in 17 states and a coastline of 7516.6 km touching 13 states and union territories.. India’s total number of islands is 1197 which accounts to a stretch of 2094 km additional border or coastline.
Country Length of the Boarder:
Bangladesh 4096.7 km
China 3488 km
Pakistan 3323 km
Nepal 1751 km
Myanmar 1643 km
Bhutan 699 km
Afghanistan 106 km
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Between 1970 and 1990, the number of vehicles has grown 11.5 times, from about 1.9 million to more than 21 million (MST, 1993). At the same time, the figure per 1000 population has increased from 3.4 to 25.31, and is expected to exceed 40 by the year 2000."
Total Road Traffic Accident has cross the number of 4.0 lac during 2007. National Crime Record Beauro has quoted that more than 1.0 lac people have died on Indian Roads during the year. Till 2020, the road traffic accidents would become third biggest reason of death among the cause of deaths.
As you all might already know the government is providing more funding for public transit users, so a better way to cut down on traffic is if for a lot of us take the transit instead of driving or car pooling whenever possible. |
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| 10.Naxalite Movement |
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Extremism in the form of the Naxalite movement, which is a result of geographical reasons and also social and political forces, owing to the continued dispossession and deprivation of tribal people in India.
Naxalite or Naxalism is an informal name given to communist groups that were born out of the Sino-Soviet split in the communist movement in India. Ideologically they belong to various trends of Maoism. Initially the movement had its centre in West Bengal. In recent years, they have spread into less developed areas of rural central and eastern India, such as Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh through the activities of underground groups like the Communist Party of India (Maoist).[1] They are conducting an insurgency, typically called the Naxalite-Maoist insurgency. They now have a presence in 40 percent of India's geographical area,[2] and are especially concentrated in an area known as the "Naxal Belt," comprising 92,000 square kilometers.[3] According to India's intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, 20,000 insurgents are currently in operation,[4] and their growing influence[5] prompted Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to declare them as the most serious threat to India's national security |
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"We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act. "
-- Swami Vivekananda |
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