Question

why does india is devolping country not devolped country??

Answer 1

The number one reason that I think is internal
commotion. Though we are a country that
speaks over 20 different languages, we are not
united on a single language. Migration between
states becomes more difficult that migrating to
a different country. A person coming from a
nearby state is often treated as a foriegner to
their "land". During the early days of
Independent India, there were some "initiatives"
to make Hindi the common language of India.
Somehow, it has not got widespread acceptance
atleast in the Southern states. Singapore's Lee
Kuan Yew was brilliant. Though the country had
predominantly higher Chinese population, he did
not force the others to learn Chinese. Instead
all of them learnt English and accepted English
as the link language. But unfortunately it did not
happen like that in India. Hindi, which was
spoken only in three states (UP, MP and
Haryana) was imposed on the remaining 22
states just because Jawaharlal Nehru was from
UP. As a result, till date, we fight among states
owing to lack of unity. To this date, the central
govt is pushing everyone to learn this language
by various means. For example, to enter
politics, it's mandatory to know Hindi. To ace
the IAS, it's mandatory to know Hindi and so
on... (Another reason why central govt is
sparsely populated with Southies) This has only
incited a feeling of hatred and not unity as the
govt expected it to be.
Secondly, the government is defunct and does
not know to manage funds . Because Kerala is
small, very little funds are allocated to Kerala
for industrial development. A state with 100%
literacy is far behind in industrialization and no
one is simply cared about it.. (PS: I'm not a
keralite). The same applies to our seven sister
states of the North East. When they migrate to
other parts of India, we casually mock, "hey you
look like a chinese, are you really a Indian?"
They look like chinese, because they are of
Sino-tibetian origin unlike Indo-aryans or
dravidians and it's a part of our multi-ethnic
culture. why should we ignore them?
Third reason is very high income inequality .
Maharashtra boasts that it's the richest state in
India in terms of GDP per capita. But I doubt
that. If we ask Ambani's family, Salman Khan
and Sachin Tendulkar to migrate to Bihar, then
probably Bihar could become the richest state.
According to World bank, any one living with
less than 2US$ a day is deemed to be struck
with poverty and according to that statistics,
over 80% (or approximately 800 million) people
live with income of < 100 Rs a day. What did
the government do to uplift them? I fear none.
But, Yes, it did one smart Math. According to
India, anyone earning less that 0.4$ a day (15Rs
a day) is deemed to be poverty struck and by
this figure, only 30% of Indians are poor. This
0.4$ is calculated using nominal GDP by India.
But owing to very high inflation nominal GDP
figures is often misleading. Infact India is third
richest (richer than Japan) country in terms of
nominal GDP which shows the extent of mislead
nominal GDP calculations can have.
Fourth is the Lack of Population control: China
has a one child policy in place to control
population. They understood the negatives of a
high population. We are nearly 90% of chinese
population yet our land area is like one-third of
China and still our government does not bring in
any reforms here.
Fifth is Literacy: When Kerala has a whopping
100% literacy, other states should learn from it
and try to implement a similar system in their
state. But our tendency is, "Why should we
imitate that puny little state? my state is great."
There are even more, but I don't want to sound
like a negative critic. Nearly everything goes the
wrong way. A govt that does not care about the
citizens but do care a lot about their seventh
heir. An anthem that does not praise the
country, a person who does not deserve to be
called "Father" is the "Father of Nation". (I
believe that we got our Independence because
of Nethaji) etc., etc.,
Because we've already lost a lot of opportunites
in the past, we now have to work really hard to
restore it. I strongly believe that a good and a
high quality education is the only way for
resurrection and I've already blogged about that