INDIA @ 60
60th year of Indian independence – trying to reflect back
India being a country more than 5000 years of culture and tradition filled with natural resources for years to come in, this is one question, which stayed in my mind for years and of-course left unanswered.
What have we achieved in the last 60 years, are we really free and are we heading to the right direction.
Few highlights which more or less give one a fairly answers Our growth in information technology, telecom, retail business, aviation, automobile for instance u name it and India is there.
We are the 4th largest economy in the world and just next to USA, China, and Japan. Thanks to all NRI who are pumping so much of foreign exchange that we are now the fifth largest foreign exchange reserves in the world.
Though we have so much of foreign investment we still have a relatively poor infrastructure.
The gap between the richer and the poorer have still been increasing.
With all the natural resources that we have and self sufficient for food, our farmers still commit suicide for unable to pay their debts.
Increase number of foreign investment and technology in the country the crime rates have substantially increased.
By saying this I hope to put in a serious thought in the readers mind to help and contribute which helps every one to get our country move one step ahead.
Vande Mataram.
Sunday, August 19th, 2007