India is a rice Country but inhabitants are poor". Explain
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India is a rich country inhabited by poor people. It is one of the ten poorest countries of the world. This is partly so because the resources of India have not been properly utilized and partly because per capita share of resources ‘is small. An assessment of India’s physical and human resources will make it evident to us.There is plenty of water to be utilized for irrigation and for generation of hydroelectricity. But we have not been able to harness properly this resource to the required extent.
Water is made available to us either from rain or from the underground. The rain water, most of it, flows down to sea. We do not have many reservoirs and dams to store it and use it in off-season to increase our food output.
The next physical resource is soil. The soils in India are quite productive and about 50 per cent of India’s total area is under cultivation.
Then we come to the mineral wealth of India. India is quite an affluent country in this regard. There are vast resources of iron ore, manganese, mica and bauxite, etc. We are exporting some of them at throw-away prices. This trend is to be checked.
So far as the forest wealth is concerned, about 20 per cent of India’s total area is covered by them.
We are, thus, quite rich in our physical resources but the thing lacking is that we are not utilizing them properly. There lies the crux of the problem and it is for this that we continue to be poor.
There is need for conservation of natural resources. The solution to India’s various ills lies in the resource-oriented planning. It is a must for India. No one can deny it. Until the time India utilizes its resources, it will always be said that India is a rich country inhabited by the poor people. It is true; there is no doubt about it. Let us pledge today and make the people prosperous by dint of hard work, perseverance and dedication.
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