Are you Indian

Is India shining?You decide : 

Is India shining?You decide Are you Indian? Then do something!!!

3 – Indicators of Civilization : 

3 – Indicators of Civilization Education Public Health Justice How many Political parties/Governments have seriously addressed any of these? How many talk of caste, religion and redundant history? 2 How many headlines do you see about these subjects?

Slide 3: 

3 Literacy Rate %age India: Adult 37% (Min. of HRD) China: Adult 90. Youth 98

Facts on Education : 

Facts on Education Rate of Unemployment : 7.9%. Below Poverty Line: 25% Nearly 60% are self employed. 1% is with government, 2% with the private ‘organized sector’ and 97% with the ‘unorganized sector’. Engineers/annum: 464,000: 31% IT McKinsey Global Institute Report: 75% unemployable US: 70,000. Europe: 100,000. China: 600,000 MBAs: 60,000 R&D Spend on Higher Education: < 3% of national spend China: 10%, Others incl. Taiwan, Brazil: 15-30%) 4

Facts on Education : 

Indian definition of Literacy (if you can write your name you are literate) 70% of all graduates are B.A. or Arts graduates. Almost unemployable. Drop-out rate in schools from KG to 10+2 is 90% to 94%.   Rs. 91,000 crores per year. 15% Central Govt. 85% by the State Governments Education Cess: Rs. 7000 crores per year. This is about 3.3% of GDP. MHRD: Additional Rs. 40,000 crores per year required for Primary Education! Facts on Education http://greathumancapital.wordpress.com/2007/01/28/education-first-making-india-a-knowledge-economy/

Access to Health Care : 

Access to Health Care Infant mortality: 34/1000 2.2 M infants and children die from preventable illnesses; 100,000 mothers die during child birth, 500,000 people die of Tuberculosis. Diarrhea and Malaria continue to be killers while 5.1 M are suffering from HIV/AIDS. 6 REVIEW OF HEALTHCARE IN INDIAEditors: Leena V. Gangolli, Ravi Duggal and Abhya Shukla http://www.cehat.org/rthc/rhci.html

State of Justice - 2007 : 

State of Justice - 2007 7 Cases Pending: High Courts: Over three million in 21 high courts Subordinate Courts: 26.3 million Under-trials in jails: 250,000 2,069 have been in jail for more than five years Supreme Court of India had a total of 39,780 civil and criminal pending cases at the end of 2006 http://www.headlinesindia.com/main.jsp?news_code=41562

Law & Order : 

Law & Order 1947-2003 : 23,150 people killed in ‘riots’,(90% Muslim) ‘Outsiders’ denied privileges of citizenship Muslims denied housing in most cities Unwritten ‘Muslims not required’ rule for recruitment Police routinely use torture to extract confessions Extrajudicial killings of suspects called ‘Encounter’ Press glorifies murder: ‘Encounter Specialist’ Executive, Judiciary, Press & Government actively collude to deny justice to the oppressed http://www.ipcs.org/IRP03.pdf Politicians are above the law and pay no price

Indian context – torn fabric : 

9 Indian context – torn fabric Citizens obey the law as an exception rather than the rule & ignore violations that occur all around A perquisite of power, indeed a sign of eminence is the ability to disregard the law with impunity There is little or no respect, care and interest in the maintenance of the “commons”. Enforcement depends on the person who committed the crime not on the crime itself We are conditioned to obey people, not to obey the law

Solution : 

Solution Good governance is a process and takes time For good governance to happen people must first become conscious of its benefits Violators must pay a price no matter who they are or what position they hold Value education at the primary level supported by messages at all levels 10 Good governance is about the common people

Something is desperately wrong with our society : 

Something is desperately wrong with our society And it will affect us all Because the quality of the water affects all the dwellers of the lake

What we can all do : 

What we can all do Can you educate one child? Then do it. Can you pay for the health care of one person? Then do it. Can you vote against one politician/party who talks of caste? Then do it. Talk is cheap and changes nothing Action takes courage and can change the world

Ask: What kind of world do I want to leave behind? : 

Ask: What kind of world do I want to leave behind? The choice is Ours

So do you want to make a difference to your country? : 

So do you want to make a difference to your country? Then act now

Somewhere we have to take a stand and refuse to compromise : 

Somewhere we have to take a stand and refuse to compromise Peace is the result of justice Until justice is established, any peace is only a recess between wars yawarbaig@gmail.com www.yawarbaig.com