Tuesday 1 February 2011

Double Challenges - Corruption and Population Explosion

The rooted problems of poor living standard in India mainly due to 2 reasons: Corruption and Population explosion. In Kolkata or any other Indian cities, we can witness some very rich people driving a luxury car showing a huge contrast with the beggar lying on the street. Ridiculously, you can find a slum area right beside every magnificent tall buildings, there is only a pavement to separate the 2 sides of the Earth!!

Although India is the biggest democratic country in the world, the poor find it almost nowhere to express their needs. If you want to be a candidate in the election, you have to pay a large sum of money to the Government before you get on board. And those candidate only give little benefit to the poor in order to get their vote, after that everything become false promise. That’s why the situation remains the same for several decades, the poor remains poor but the rich become even richer. Unbelievably, there are some Indians think that it is necessary to keep the poor within their society, http://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/The-Art-Remaining-Poor-yahoofinancein-2975194193.html?x=0 . Yes, even in Hong Kong we can see some poor people, it happens anywhere; however what is the purpose of remaining such a huge difference? Obviously, rich people do not want to share with the poor, their selfishness halt the development of whole India.

When China has operated “One Child Policy” for over 30 years, Chinese population is increasing steadily. The case in India is almost uncontrollable; there are not any policies to control their population growth. The Indian Census has just finished in 2010, everyone is still waiting for the statistics, but many people predicted India has already exceeded China to become Champion among population. More than 5 kids in a family is very common, however, it also accounts for its high infant motility rate. Parents could not afford to raise all their kids, most of them are suffered from malnutrition and starvation. When I was in Hampi, I volunteered in a local NGO “Hampi Children Trust (HCT)” who provides after school tutorial and 2 meals for poor children. Once I asked a girl in HCT whether she got siblings, and she said she has a sister but died. I could not find any sadness on her face at that moment, maybe “Infant motility” is nothing special for them. And some Indians even told me, “having more children is a gift from their God, and they believe God help to raise all of their kids.” I could not argue with their faith, but isn’t it that hard to have a little planning or precaution before having sex?

Maybe you can also discover other problems, such as human trafficking, unfair trading, HIV matters…but they all trace back to the above two main problems. Let’s do something NOW to make a little change!!

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