At 9:34 AM -0700 9/20/05, Dilip/Dil Deka wrote:
So, what's your angle? You have been trying so hard to prove that GOI does not function. You don't have to. No one is arguing with you on that point.
*** Did I attempt to put a spin to Tavleen Singh's report
attemting to atribute personal motives ?
Despite GOI and Indian bureaucracy, Indian economy has progressed significantly.
*** That 'India' does not represent everybody, does it? So what
SOME have progressed? If I were one and I had no share of it, why do I
have to feel good about it?
You can't deny that. Who or what do you give credit to? Inherent traits in some Indian communities favoring capitalism and entrepreneurship. Delhi's loosening the rein of control and allowing private sector to grow also helped.
Regarding info on per capita income that you wanted, read the piece below.
*** While some of it might mean something, others mean little.
Imagine stats on
per capita energy consumption, per capita supply of calories
meaning anything for those had no cooking fuel or starving.
*** The point is Indian Govts, past or present, have been an
OBSTACLE to progress. If it is acceptable for some, so be it.
But why should Assam have to take it lying down?
Dilip
Growth in per capita income raises India's rank
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
JUNE 30: Propelled by a robust growth in per capita income, India has improved its rank four notches to 128 on the Human Development Index (HDI) calculated on the basis of life expectancy, educational attainment and standard of living.
The UN Human Development Report 2000 released today, pegs India's life expectancy at 62.9 years while putting GDP per capita income at 444 dollars per person, an improvement from 331 dollars per person of 1990 -- a growth of 33 per cent in eight years.
The reports puts the average annual rate of growth in percapita income at three per cent. India's Gross National Product (GNP) was 427.4 billion dollars in 1998 and was growing at a healthy 5.6 per cent annually, the report said.
Services sector with close to 46 per cent share contributed highest to the 430 billion dollar Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 1998. Agriculture contributed 29.3 per cent while industry chipped in 24.7 per cent to the GDP.
Per capita enegry consumption improved from 173 kilowatt hours in 1980 to 482 kilowatt hours in 1997 while the country consumed 465,867 million of kolowatt hours in 1997.
Daily per capita supply of calories improved from 2,082calories per person in 1970 to 2,496 calories in 1997. Daily per capita supply of protein increased 12.9 per cent during 197-97 to 59 grams while that of fats grew 46.5 per cent to 45 grams in 1997.
On the Gender-related development index, India ranked 108 with female life expectancy at 63.3 years, a shade better than 62.5 years expectancy of males. However, literacy rate among female was only 43.5 per cent compared to 67.1 per cent in male.
Despite half a century of elected governments, India has failed to provide universal primary education, the report said adding there was no provision in the constitution for mandatory primary education as a right of all citizens.
In 1991, 52 per cent of the population aged seven and above was literate. But breaking data down by gender, some castes and urban or rural dwellings reveals especially extreme deprivation among rural women of scheduled tribes with a literacy rate of just 16 per cent, UN report said.
Literacy rate for rural women of scheduled tribes was 51 per cent, almost the National average. But in several states it was below 51 per cent and in Rajasthan just four per cent.
"Resources are not the critical constraint. Countries with similar resources, such as China, have legal guarantees for this economic right, and have delivered it," it said adding the principles of human rights call for policy measures to tackle the extreme depreviation of these groups.
Lauding India's efforts in reducing income proverty, the report said poverty has been reduced from 54 per cent in 1974 to 39 per cent in 1994. Yet widespread income poverty and income inequality still exists.
Lack of housing is another problem in India with millions living in shantytowns in Calcutta and Mumbai, it observed.
Stating that public interest litigation cases - ineducation and environment - have been useful in securing people's economic and social rights, the UN report however expressed concern over shortages of judges and overwhelming backlogs of cases strangling the rule of law.
There are more than 2,000 pending cases per judge in India, it said.
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the info.Now then can someone compute the per capita income in 1947 and the same now, determine the rate of growth, and compare that to other countries' in the same period? That might then give us a measure to compare apples and apples and relate to Tavleen Singh's article to see if India is progressing by leaps and bounds, in spite of the dead-elephant of an Indian government, unable to move.Recently when the Indian ambassador stood us up in St. Louis, and the embassy First Secy. addressed the large turnout instead, he said something in jest,but it spoke volumes:" People ask me how India has become such a force in IT? I tell them the answer is simple: Because the govt. had nothing to do with it." At 10:38 AM -0500 9/20/05, Rajen Barua wrote:
1947 = India's population 250mmillion
2005 = India's population 1 billion
Raje
From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Dilip/Dil Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Assam] Now Try This---Addendum
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:42:05 -0500
> > >India did not start at 5th place in 1947.
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>And India's population has grown how many folds since 1947 to impact
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>At 2:42 PM -0700 9/19/05, Dilip/Dil Deka wrote:
> >Like I said - though wealth distribution is not where we want to it
> >to be and per capita income is low, the size of the economy is
> >nothing to laugh at. The following is from a reliable source.
> >India did not start at 5th place in 1947.
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