India, a country of 125 crores, still has 300 million people living in extreme poverty. Half of the country’s population is reaching the poverty line. Anubrota critiques the Indian economy. An exclusive for Different Truths.

The combination of many languages and diversity has lifted a significant number of people above the poverty line in the last two decades. The creation of many high-quality human resources in the global technology sector has opened the door to India’s excellence and potential. Yet at least half of the country’s population is reaching the poverty line.

According to a UN report titled ‘Completing the Task’, India, a country of 125 crores, still has 300 million people living in ‘extreme poverty’. They are also deprived of basic social services including education, health, drinking water, sewerage, and electricity. Although the economic development of our country India is unprecedented, it is not balanced. The country is heavily regulated by several exceptionally large industrial groups and the country’s huge consumer market is monopolised by these groups.

Another problem is that the country’s central businesses are under certain ethnic groups. The problem outside of this is that the job market is monopolised by Hindi speaking people. As a result, those who speak English fluently have a limited job market. In this situation, the emergence of small and individual traders in the productive sector in India is quite difficult. Since the central political parties are dependent on the subscriptions of one or the other industrial group, the state policy and strategy has always been in favour of these industrial companies. On the other hand, the central government is indifferent to how much human labour, dividend margins and moral wage structure they are doing, how much employment they are creating and how much they are living and environmentally friendly as the government receives huge amounts of revenue from large industrial groups.

The reality is that the big industrial groups are so powerful that in many cases they do not care about the state governments. As a result, unemployment is rising in the minor states. Another aspect of this is that in India there is a grand arrangement of cheap dividend-oriented production cantered on life, nature and environmental irresponsibility, river killing, water and air pollution.

Oxfam, a non-governmental organisation, reports that in 2016, 73 per cent of India’s national product was lost to one per cent. The value of the wealth accumulated in the treasury of this super-rich is equal to the annual budget of the Centre. On the other hand, the income of most of the people in the country has not increased even one per cent in one year. The survey shows that the country’s financial progress is uneven. Most of the citizens are deprived of their fair share Those who got it are a small part of the society.

According to the World Economic Forum, India ranks 72nd out of 64 countries in terms of inclusive growth. As a country, the financial situation of the central government of India is better than other countries in the West, but it does not reflect the quality of life of the citizens. The standard of living of the people of the country is not judged by the growth rate of national production. Judgment is in terms of its overall underground reality. Looking at the way of life in the metropolis every year, slum after slum is growing. The children are lying on the sidewalk. Dirty garbage around. Open sewer. Another type of slum is created by evicting the poor slum dwellers from the land of that slum, which is a large multi-storey flat slum of the middle class and the so-called rich.

The Modi government’s transparent India mission is a farce. Dirt is flowing out of the toilet It is not clear regularly. The desired change in the lives of the poor is not coming in health, education, employment. Financial development statistics did not make any difference in their way of life. Still, at least one in four people go to bed hungry. A few years ago, the Sachar Committee reported that 32 per cent of people in India live below the poverty line, while 49.9 per cent of Muslims live below the poverty line, well above the national average. This is another example of unequal development which is very incongruous for a secular country. Surprisingly, 40 per cent of the country’s Muslim and non-Hindu villages do not have a health centre. On the other hand, the plight of Indian farmers is indescribable. Small farmers are living there on the brink of disaster.

Climate change, severe droughts, floods, huge debt burdens, the inability of the corporate market system to keep up with the production process have made suicide the fate of the farmers there. Analysing various statistics and media reports, it has been found that in most cases, the main reason behind the suicides of farmers is the burden of debt. Analysts say the lack of effective policy planning on security issues has led to farmers becoming increasingly indebted.

According to them, decades of debt burden, drought and declining incomes have had a severe impact on rural India. From 2011 to 2016, 6,081 farmers committed suicide in Madhya Pradesh. Since 2013, the suicide rate has increased by 21 per cent. According to a study by Punjab Agricultural University and other universities, between 2000 and 2016, 16,700 farmers committed suicide in the state of Punjab alone. In other words, about one thousand farmers have given their lives every year. According to the data presented to the Parliament by the Union Minister of Agriculture of India in March 2016, as per 2016, there is a record of one farmer committing suicide every 8 hours in that state.

India, which is a combination of many languages and diversity, has ethnic chaos. But without going to the root of the problem, India has always tried to cover up the chaos with at least six major hegemonic imperialist elements, (a) Hinduism, (b) Extreme dominance over the neighbour, (c) Doctrine of Kashmir and Undivided India, (d) Pride of Indian Army Air Force and Navy (e) Cricket (f) Bollywood (Hindi Movies). “Hinduism” is the main weapon of the present rulers of India to keep on trying to sharpen it regularly, beef and cow-centric over-devotion or Muslim persecution. Extreme domination of the neighbourhood, the use of force by the army in Northeast India, including Kashmir, is favoured by many Indians, making it safe to use in any political-economic crisis.

There is a huge media engaged in singing the praises of this force (the pride of the Indian Army Air Force and Navy). And cricket and Hindi movies are the lifeblood of Indians. In this situation, the widespread and frequent misuse of these hegemonic or imperialist elements is very noticeable. The media, cricket stars and Bollywood stars, eager for cheap popularity and a huge advertising market, have always encouraged the misuse of these elements. India has no permanent enemy except the virtually failed state of Pakistan, who can occupy the country or put India in a military predicament.

China’s Tibet and Arunachal problems are military-psychological, and the two countries share a common border. India’s competition with China is a trade and regional influence. To win this psychological battle, India needs to move away from neighbourly oppression (election influence, government collapse, economic pressure, intimidation, border-based illegal trafficking and infiltration fraud, counterfeit currency smuggling, etc.), fairwater distribution, free trade rights, mutual respect There is no alternative but to be generous in them. In fact, the main reason for India’s instability is internal politics. If the country wants, it can withdraw its troops from Kashmir and bring back full autonomy and civil liberties there. The country should understand that the Kashmir issue can be stopped through extreme military repression and Hindu-style infiltration in the Israeli style. And the freedom of the citizens or the freedom movement cannot be termed as militant activity.

For 60 years, the cost of military spending for the presence of one police paramilitary or military member for every six Kashmiris cannot be explained as it is part of the tax of 125 crore Indians. Mighty Soviet Russia in Afghanistan, Pakistan in Bangladesh are desperate to show what India could not do in Kashmir, but this futile attempt is a waste of life and money. So, instead of being a military man, he can be humane and walk the easy road to solve this problem.

India spends about 64 billion a year on its military, air, and naval forces. Sweden-based international research institute CIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) says India has emerged as the world’s top arms importer between 2012 and 2016. The country buys 13 per cent of the world’s total arms sales. This is an increase of 43 per cent over the period 2007-11. As a result, its strategy is to build past military relations with the top two arms sellers, the United States and Russia. With 300 million people out of a population of 125 million still living below the “extreme poverty” threshold, a country’s military spending is disproportionate. In this competition, on the one hand, instability is growing inside India and on the other hand, relations with its neighbours are getting bitter.

In modern times, citizens of any state are subject to military grandstanding imposed by another state, influencing elections, interfering in the formation and dissolution of government, bloodshed, border fences, barbed wire fences, human push-in and human trafficking, counterfeit currency smuggling, extortion and river killings. He does not like the control of unequal trade or the political and military intelligence of other countries in the internal politics of his own country. As a result, financially and commercially liberal and humanely bordering India seeks justice for all its neighbours.

In the context of regional power and influence, the international community’s relationship with India should not be so focused on sophisticated arms imports that they do not act as catalysts to increase arms competition in any country on the Indian subcontinent. This will put pressure on other countries, including Pakistan, to bring it to the right path. This means that India should create regional SAARC surveillance as well as international pressure on whether it should sell its own weapons to others in the region, including Pakistan. India must bear the brunt of this because Pakistan has no financial or moral capacity to get into this position after selling arms and playing militant games with the Taliban, bin Laden, internal militant groups, and US forces.

Sadly, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has become inactive at the behest of India. Without resorting to military might, India could focus on building another EU-free trade and communication zone in the region. Then India and Pakistan’s vast military spending will find a way to be used to alleviate poverty in the region. India, South Asia’s largest civic resource and economic power, can play an effective leadership role in sustainable human development and peace in the region.

On the morning of 27 February 2019, both India and Pakistan demanded the downing of each other’s warplanes. Pakistan has claimed to have shot down two Indian and Indian and Pakistani warplanes. In fact, it has unlimited benefits for the two arms-producing countries, the United States and Russia, or their arms-producing allies. The more militant attacks, wars, surgical strikes, airstrikes or bombings inside and across the border between India and Pakistan, the more the imperialist world powers will benefit financially and try to encourage them to engage in the war directly or indirectly. But this money could be spent on sustainable development of poverty and quality of life. Let this feeling be awakened in the imperialist countries of Pakistan and India between the governments, political parties, and civic parties. South Asia is free from poverty, superstition, and man-made environmental and military catastrophe.

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Anubrota Mondal

Anubrota Mondal is a photographer. He hails from Howrah, West Bengal India. He is also a wildlife, bird, and travel photographer. He is the nephew of eminent artist and painter Late Rabin Mondal. His special area however are classical music, classical dance, and theatre. He is a content writer, writing on various subjects. He associated with the Pacific Press Agency.

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