The increasing and crudest violence unleashed
on the Dalits and women in India doesn’t speak well of it’s growth story. A nation which is so active in articulating animal rights is so heartless when it comes to treatment of women and Dalits. Dalits are not yet accepted as part of our society Imagine honour killing and public beating for doing their professions in this 21st century .
Statistical data on economic indicators
might impress the NRIs and international funding organisations . But the poor
Human Development Index pertaining to India speaks volumes about the indifference
of the various governments towards the basic
needs of the marginalised sections of the society . It is very shameful to cut
down the budgetary expense on social over heads when, the poorest of the poor languish
without regular jobs and state support and unable to provide dignified life to their children .What
is the use of middle class uprising and growing number billionaires and smart
cities when, a significant chunk of population is still under the grip of poverty
and driven towards suicide due to the
burden of debts? The immediate need is to increase the state support towards jobs
, education, training and health care of the poorer sections . What is the
benefit of democracy if a nation can not guarantee dignity and security to all
the sections of the population?
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