2050 Projections of India

Many of you, might have read reports of 2050 projects of India and its being a superpower.

Yes it is a great ego massage for most Indian elites and middle class. It is a great opium to hide all our current inadequacies; to postpone all hard decisions.

First of all, there is no great scientific validity to such projections. Assume a growth rate and allow the computer to do the calculations. The more you want a better result, more you increase the growth rate of India and assume less for others !

I am no longer amused by these projections and our elite and middle class going "gaga" over it. I am angry now a days by these.

Yes, there is no point in going into such a long period of more than four decades in this era of twenty first century when things move very fast. In a decade, so many unforeseen changes take place. Let alone 2020, by 2017, India and Indians can do so much.

India can totally eradicate poverty – not by the definition of the Govt.’s Below Poverty Line (BPL) – which is Rs.11 per day per person in rural areas and Rs.14 per day per person in urban areas (which is a “mathematical” calculation to buy raw rice and wheat worth 2200 calories in Fair price shops (Public Distribution System – PDS) ! What about kerosene or firewood. Other item to push the food inside ! No cloth or habitat.

I never believed in BPL statistics ! (see my book “Empowering Indians” the part “Preface & Overview” – I placed 700 million Indians as poor in 2001 !

Well my expectation of income for Indians within a decade is Rs.80 per day per person in now poorer areas and Rs.100 per day per person – that not as per capita calculations divided as total income divided by 1129 million Indians; but at the hands of bottom 20% percentile !

It is not difficult to achieve if we empower all Indians (women included as many employment data assume women to be at house – a convenient way to put less pressure on employment generation ! I want all Indians to have an income earning opportunity.) It is possible. Read my books and practical experiences in many parts of India.

But it will require less of control – inspector raj and more of facilitating and knowledge intermediating governance. (See other parts of website).

My request to all of you is to think bold – for a newly defined India – Forget the 60 years which has past !!

 

 

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