India Shining: A Zillion Reasons to Escape From India

Why 1 million Indians Escape from India every year?
December 9, 2007 by CyberGandhi


Any crackdown on illegal immigrants abroad or restricting quotas to
Indians are a major concern to India's politicians. Ever wondered why
Indians migrate to another countries but no one comes to India for a
living? Here are some Indian facts:

Foreigners Living in India

Historically, about 70 % of the current Indian population is
originated from Aryan race. Prominent historians and Dravidians
consider Aryans as foreign invaders to India. The Aryan Invasion
Theory (AIT) was postulated by eminent Oxford scholar Max Muller in
1882 and later advanced by several western and Indian historians.

Under the current scenario, potential migrants or 'invaders' to India
include few 'hired or weird' Pakistani bombers, villagers around
India's border with Bangladesh, Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka and
Indian import of Nepali prostitutes. 92 year old, Indian Painter
Maqbool Fida Hussain lives in Dubai after death threats from Hindu
militants. According to Hindu extremists Bangladeshi story teller
Taslima Nasrin passed all the tests for an Indian citizenship. Italian
born Sonia Gandhi , the Christian widow of Rajiv Gandhi is still
considered as a foreigner by Hindu elites while Pakistan born Hindu,
Lal Krishna Advani is 'legally and morally fit' to become India's next
Prime Minister.

Poverty Graph


India accounts for 40 % of the world's poor (more than in the whole of
Africa) and its fiscal deficit is one of the highest in the world.
India ranks way down at 96 among 119 developing countries included in
the Global Hunger Index (GHI). Ref: IFPRI Country Report on India

Around six out of 10 Indians live in the countryside, where abject
poverty is widespread. 34.7 % of the Indian population lives with an
income below $ 1 a day and 79.9 % below $ 2 a day. According to the
India's planning commission report 26.1 % of the population live below
the poverty line. [World Bank's poverty line of $1 a day, but the
Indian poverty line of Rs 360 a month, or 30 cents a day]

The Current Account Balance of India

"A major area of vulnerability for us is the high consolidated
public-debt to GDP ratio of over 70 percent … (and) consolidated
fiscal deficit," says the Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Mr.
Yaga Venugopal Reddy.

According to CIA world fact book, the Current account balance of India
is -10,360,000,000 (minus) while China is the wealthiest country in
the world with $ 249,900,000,000 (Plus) . India listed as 152 and
China as no.1 [CIA: The world fact book]

Human Development vs GDP growth

The Human Development Report for 2007-08 released by the UNDP ranked
India 128 out of 177 countries, working it out through measures of
life expectancy, education and income. Malaysia ranked 63 and listed
at under High Human Development category. The report found that
India's GDP per capita (purchasing power parity) is $3,452, far below
Malaysia's $10,882. China listed as 81. Read the statistics from UNDP
website

Population:

According to the Indian census of 2001, the total population was 1.028
billion. Hindus numbered 827 million or 80.5 %. About 25 per cent (24
million) of those Hindus are belonging to Scheduled Castes and Tribes.
About 40 per cent (400 million) are "Other Backward Castes".

15 per cent Hindu upper castes inherited India's civil service,
economy and active politics from British colonial masters. And thus
the caste system virtually leaves lower caste Hindus in to an
oppressed majority in India's power structure. The 2004 World
Development Report mentions that more than 25% of India's primary
school teachers and 43% of primary health care workers are absent on
any given day!

Living conditions of Indians

In India, 16 % of the population still remains and live with out
having sustainable access to improved water resources. 600 million
Indians still have no access to electricity and there are daily power
cuts even in the nation's capital. Around 60 per cent people are not
having access to financial institutions in India. This figure is less
than 15 per cent in developed countries. (NABARD)

According to the National Family Health Survey data (2005-06), only 45
per cent of households in the country had access to improved
sanitation.

Education

About 40 million primary school-age children in India are not in
school. More than 92 % children cannot progress beyond secondary
school.

India has over 35 per cent of the world's total illiterate population.
[UNESCO Education for All Report 2008]

Japan has 4,000 universities for its 127 million people and the US has
3,650 universities for its 301 million, India has only 348
universities for its 1.2 billion people. In the prestigious Academic
Ranking of World Universities by Institute of Higher Education,
Shanghai Jiao Tong, only two Indian Universities are included. Even
those two IITs in India found only a lower slot (203-304) in 2007
report.

Health

150 million Indians are blind. 2.13 per cent of the total population
(21.9 million) live with disabilities in India. Yet, only 34 per cent
of the disabled are employed [Census 2001] India has the single
highest share of neonatal deaths in the world, 2.1 million.

107,000 Leprosy patients live in India. 15.3 % of the population do
not survive to the age of forty. Serpent attacks kill as many as
50,000 Indians while the cobra occupies a hallowed place in the Hindu
religion. Heart disease, strokes and diabetes cost India an estimated
$9 billion in lost productivity in 2005. The losses could grow to a
staggering $200 billion over the next 10 years if corrective action is
not taken quickly, says a study by the New Delhi-based Indian Council
for Research on International Economic Relations.

Tuberculosis (T is a major public health problem in India. India
accounts for one-fifth of the global TB incident cases. Each year
about 1.8 million people in India develop TB, of which 0.8 million are
infectious cases. It is estimated that annually around 330,000 Indians
die due to TB. [WHO India]

Economy under the siege of Elite Hindus


In India, wealth of 36 families amounts to $ 191 billion, which is
one-fourth of India's GDP. In other words, 35 elite Hindu families own
quarter of India's GDP by leaving 85 % ordinary Hindus as poor!

The dominant group of Hindu nationalists come from the three upper
castes ( Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaishyas ) that constitute only 10
per cent of the total Indian population. But, they claim perhaps 80 %
of the jobs in the new economy, in sectors such as software,
biotechnology, and hotel management.

Corruption

According to TI, 25 % of Indians paid bribe to obtain a service. 68 %
believe that governmental efforts to stop the corruption as
ineffective. More than 90 % consider police and political parties as
the worst corrupt institutions. 90 % of Indians believe that
corruption will increase within the next 3 years. "Corruption is a
large tax on Indian growth, It delays execution, raises costs and
destroys the moral fiber." says Prof. Rama Murthi. Transparency
International estimates that Indian truckers pay something in the
neighborhood of $5 billion annually in bribes to keep freight flowing.
According to Rahul Gandhi, only 5 per cent of development funds
reached their intended recipients due to hierarchical corruption in
the country! [Financial Times]

Discrimination against Dalits

Crime against Dalits occur every 20 minutes in India. Every day 3
Dalit women are raped, 2 Dalits are murdered and 2 Dalit houses are
burnt down! These figures represent only a fraction of actual
incidents since many Dalits do not register cases for fear of
retaliation by the police and upper-caste Hindu individuals. Official
figures show that there are still 0.343 million manual scavengers in
India from Dalit community. More than 165 million Dalits in India are
simply abused by their Hindu upper castes for their birth! . [HRW
Report2007]

Human Rights

When it comes to Human Rights issues in India, it is not ratified the
UN Convention against Torture, its citizens do not have the
opportunity to find recourse in remedies that are available under
international law. The victims are trapped with the local Hindu caste
system, which in every aspect militates against their rights.

India has a very poor record of protecting the privacy of its
citizens, according to the latest report from Privacy International
(PI). India scored 1.9 points, which makes it an 'extensive
surveillance society'. A score between 4.1 and 5.0 (the highest score)
would mean a country "consistently upholds human rights standards". PI
is a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and
corporations. [Surveillance Report 2007]

The police in India continue to remain militaristic in design and
suppressive in practice. The police officials are accused of
favoritism, being discourteous to the public, and ignoring the
complaints of the poor. Moreover they are seen as violators of the
law, open-handedly accepting bribes and fabricating various elements
of investigations. Many victims conclude that a justice system
accessible to the poor of the land does not exist at all.

Fake encounter killings are rampant in India. This extra judicial
killings are inspired by theological texts of Brahmins like Artha
Shastra and Manusmriti which teaches espionage and torture methods.
Every such killing of an innocent person, branded a terrorist, has
encouraged the killer cops to target socially excluded communities
like dalits, tribals and minorities.

According to the National Human Rights Commission, as on 30th June
2004, there were 3,32,112 prisoners in Indian jails out of which
2,39,146 were under trial prisoners. That's more than 70 %. India's
jails hold a disproportionate number of the country's minority
Muslims, a sign of discrimination and alienation from the Hindu
majority. Prison statistics of Indian Jail can be seen from National
Crime Record Bureau, here

Minorities

About 20 %, or 200 million, are religious minorities. Muslims
constitutes 138 million or 13.4 5, Christians 24 million or 2.3 %,
Sikhs 19 million or 2 %, Buddhists 8 million or 0.8 % and Jains 4
million or 0.4 %. "Others" numbered 6.6 million or 0.6 %. According to
Mr. Tahir Mahmood, an Indian Muslim journalist, "The 2.3 % Christians
in the Indian population cater to 20 % of all primary education in
India, 10 % of all the literacy and community health care, 25 % of all
existing care of destitute and orphans, 30 % of all the handicapped,
lepers and AIDS patients etc".

Discrimination against Minority Muslims

Recently, Justice Rajinder Sachar Committee report admitted that 138
Million Muslims across India are severely under-represented in
government employment, including Public Sector Units. Ironically, West
Bengal, a communist ruled state reported 0 (zero) percent of Muslims
in higher positions in its PSUs! It has found that the share of
Muslims in government jobs and in the lower judiciary in any state
simply does not come anywhere close to their population share. The
only place where Muslims can claim a share in proportion to their
population is in prison! (Muslims convicts in India is 19.1%, while
the number of under trials is 22.5%, which exceed their population
ratio) . A note sent on January 9 by the army to the defence ministry
in 2004 says that only 29,093 Muslims among a total of 1.1 million
personnel — a ratio of 2.6 %, which compares poorly with the Muslims'
13.8 % share in the Indian population. Officially, Indian Army don't
allow head count based on religion.

A Muslim child attends school for three years and four months,
compared to the national average of four years. Less than two percent
of the students at the elite Indian Institutes of Technology comprise
of the Muslim community. According to the National Knowledge
Commission member Jayathi Ghosh, 'there is a need to re-orient
official strategies for ensuring better access of Muslim children to
schooling outside the madrasas which cater to only four per cent of
children from the community.'

Discrimination in Media

Hindu upper caste men, who constitute just eight per cent of the total
population of India, hold over 70 % of the key posts across newsrooms
in the country. The so-called twice-born Hindu castes dominate 85 %
key posts despite constituting just 16 % of the total population,
while the intermediary castes represent a meager 3%.

The Hindu Other Backward Class groups, who are 34 % of the total
population, have a share of just 4% in the Indian newsrooms. Muslims,
who constitute about 13 % of the population, control just 4 % top
posts while Christians and Sikhs have a slightly better
representation. But the worst scenario emerges in the case of
Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes /Aborgines (STs): Based on
CSDS study, 2006. Ref: The Hindu, June 05, 2006

Discrimination in Judiciary

India's subordinate courts have a backlog of over 22 million cases
while the 21 high courts and the Supreme Court have 3.5 million and
32,000 pending cases (2006). In subordinate courts, over 15 million
cases are filed and an equal number disposed of annually by about
14,000 judges! Every year a million or more cases are added to the
arrears. At the current speed, the lower courts may take 124 years for
clearing the backlog. There were only 13 judges for every million
people.

Recently a parliamentary committee blamed the judiciary for keeping
out competent persons of downtrodden communities from "through a
shrewd process of manipulation". Dalits and Indian aborigines are
lesser than 20 out of 610 judges working in Supreme Court and state
high Courts. "This nexus and manipulative judicial appointments have
to be broken, it urged". [Parliamentary standing committee report on
Constitutional Review, Sudarshan Nachiappan]. Among 12 states with
high-Muslim population, Muslim representation in judicial sector is
limited to 7.8%. (Justice Sachar Report).

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, only 31 per cent
criminal trials are completed in less than a year. Some take even more
than 10 years. According to its study, Crime in India 2002, nearly
220,000 cases took more than 3 years to reach court, and about 25,600
exhausted 10 years before they were completed. The term of the
Liberhan Commission, formed 14 years ago to probe the demolition of
the Babri mosque in Ayodhya and originally given a mandate of three
months, has been extended again!


Discrimination against Children

According to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, India has the
highest number of street children in the world. There are no exact
numbers, but conservative estimates suggest that about 18 million
children live and labor in the streets of India's urban centers.
Mumbai, Delhi and Calcutta each have an estimated street-children
population of over 100,000. The total number of Child labor in India
is estimated to be 60 million.

The level of child malnutrition in India is among the highest in the
world, higher even than some countries in sub-Saharan Africa, says the
report 'Extent of Chronic Hunger and Malnutrition in India' by the
UN's special rapporteur on the right to food. While around 25 percent
children globally were underweight, in India the number was 43
percent. A quarter of all neo-natal deaths in the world, (2.1 million)
occurred in India, says UNICEF Report 2007 . More than one in five
children who die within four weeks of birth is an Indian. Nearly fifty
percent of Indian children who die before the age of five do not
survive beyond the first 28 days.


Discrimination against Women

According to the 2001 census, female literacy in India is 54.16 %
against male literacy of 75.85 %. Most of the working women remain
outside the organized sector: A mere 2.3 % women are administrators
and managers, and 20.5 % professional and technical workers.

There are an estimated 40 million Hindu widows in India, the least
fortunate of them shunned and stripped of the life they lived when
they were married. It's believed that 15,000 widows live on the
streets of Vrindavan, a Hindu holy city of about 55,000 population in
northern India. Many widows - at least 40per cent are said to be under
50 - are dumped by their relatives in religious towns and left to live
off charity or beg on the streets. Their plight was highlighted in
Deepa Mehta's award-winning film Water, which had to be shot mainly
outside India because of Hindu extremist opposition to the production.

Nearly 9 out of 10 pregnant women aged between 15 and 49 years suffer
from malnutrition and about half of all children (47%) under-five
suffer from underweight and 21 % of the populations are
undernourished. India alone has more undernourished people (204
million) than all of sub-Saharan Africa combined. Nearly 20 % of women
dying in childbirth around the globe are Indians. Six out of every 10
births take place at home and untrained people attend more than half
of them. 44 % of the Indian girls were married before they reached the
age of 18. It added, 16 % of girls in the age group 15-19 years were
already mothers or expecting their first child and that pregnancy is
the leading cause of mortality in this age group.

On an average one Indian woman commits suicide every four hours over a
dowry dispute. During Indian marriage, women should bring jewellery,
cash and even consumer durables as part of dowry to the in-laws. If
they fail, the victims are burnt to death - they are doused in
kerosene and set fire to. Routinely the in-laws claim that the death
happened simply due to an accident.

Rape is the fastest growing crime in India. Every hour Indian women
face two rapes, two kidnappings, four molestations and seven incidents
of cruelty from husbands and relatives [National Crime Records Bureau
Report 2006]

Fetus Killing

Women to men ratio were feared to reach 20:80 by the year 2020 as
female fetus killing is rampant. Ten million girls have been killed by
their parents in India in the past 20 years, either before they were
born or immediately after, told Indian Minister for Women and Child
Development Renuka Chowdhury to Reuters. According to the 2001 census,
the national sex ratio was 933 girls to 1,000 boys, while in the
worst-affected northern state of Punjab, it was 798 girls to 1,000
boys. The availability of ultrasound sex-determination tests leads to
such mass killings in India.

Around 11 million abortions are carried out in India every year and
nearly 80,000 women die during the process, says a report from
Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecological Societies of India (FOGSI)

Human Trafficking

Out of the 593 districts in India, 378 or 62.5 % are affected by human
trafficking. In 2006, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
sponsored study conducted by Shakti Vahini, found that domestic
violence, illiteracy, unemployment, poverty; unsafe migration and
child marriage are the major reasons for the increasing rate of
illegal human trafficking.

95 % of the women in Madhya Pradesh in commercial sex are due to
family traditions. So are 51.79 % in Bihar,' said the study. While 43
% of the total women trafficked are minors, 44 percent of the women
are into flesh trade due to poverty. Of the total women who are into
sex work in the country, 60 % are from the lower and backward class,
which indicates the pathetic living condition of the communities. In
Madhya Pradesh, a political bastion of Hindu right wing party, 96.7 %
of the women sex workers are from the scheduled castes and scheduled
tribes.

India has 4 million prostitutes nationwide and 60% of the prostitutes
are from the Scheduled Castes and Tribes or other backward caste.
UNAIDS says over 38% of those living with HIV in India are women.

High Crime Rate and Communal Riots

India reported 32,481 murders, 19,348 rapes, 7,618 dowry deaths and
36,617 molestation cases in 2006. As far as states are concerned, NCRB
has found that Madhya Pradesh recorded the highest number of crimes
(1,94,711) followed by Maharashtra (1,91,788), Andhra Pradesh
(1,73,909), Tamil Nadu (1,48,972) and Rajasthan (1,41,992) during
2006. According to National Crime Records Bureau, there was 1822602
riots in 2005 alone. [ Incidence Of Cognizable Crimes (IPC) Under
Different Crime Heads, concluded, Page 2] NCRB website

On average there are more than 2000 cases of kidnappings per year in
India. Under India's notorious caste system, upper caste Hindus
inherited key positions and controls all the governmental branches.
Violence against victims largely goes unpunished due to the support of
upper caste crooks.

Economic Crimes

Economic Crime continues to be pervasive threat for Indian Companies,
with 35 % of the organizations reporting having experienced fraud in
the past two years according to PwC Global Economic Crime Survey 2007.
Many incidents of fraud are going unreported. According to
PricewaterhouseCoopers' India findings:

* Corruption and Bribery continues to be the most common type of fraud
reported by 20 % of the respondents;
* The average direct financial loss to companies was INR 60 Million
(US $ 1.5 million) during the two year period. In addition the average
cost to manage economic crime in India was INR 40 Million (US $ 1
Million) which is close to double that of the global and Asia Pacific
average;
* In 36% of cases companies took no action against the perpetrators of fraud;
* In 50% of the cases frauds were detected by chance. [PWC Report 2007]

Armed Conflicts in India

Almost every state has separatist movements, many of them armed. A
large number of Muslims were killed in the past few years across the
country and the numbers are on a steady rise. On top of that India has
become a paraya for its neighbours. None of its neighbours appreciate
their closeness to India and they all blame it for meddling in their
affairs.

The military might of centric Hindu elites in Delhi isolated people of
Jammu & Kashmir and the northeastern states. It is difficult for any
community to feel part of a larger country when the armed forces of
the country are deployed to silence them.

According to an Indian official report , 165 of India's 602 districts
— mostly in states like Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand,
Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar
Pradesh — are "badly affected" by tribal and dalit violence, which
government termed as "Maoist terror". India's military spending was
recorded at US $21.7 billion in 2006. 85 percent of the Army's budget
is spent on the enormous manpower of 1,316,000.

In 2005, Business Week reported that India became Israel's largest
importer of weapons, accounting for about half of the $3.6 billion
worth of weapons exported by the Jewish state.

Booming industry of Terrorism Experts and Security Research Institutes

With the emergence of Hindutva forces and their alliance with neo cons
and zionists, India witnessed a sharp increase in the number of
research institutes, media houses and lobbying groups aligned to
weapon trade and fascism. Together they create fake terror stories
with the help of intelligence wing, employ their own terror mafia,
manipulate explosions in areas of tribals, dalits or minorities.
India, incidentally, has bought military hardware and software from
Israel worth over $7 billion since the 1991 Kargil conflict. By
creating conflicts in this poor country, Brahmin spin masters get huge
commission from the sale of weapons to government forces. To them,
'National Interest' simply means 'Brahmin Interest'. Their lobbying
power bring more wealth to their families in the form of jobs,
citizenship of rich countries and educational opportunities abroad.

The Defence Offset Facilitation Agency estimating the expenditure on
the sector at USD 100 billion for next five years. Hindu fascist
forces currently enjoy upper hand in media, civil, judiciary, defence
and educational streams of Indian society. Sooner or later, 25,000
strong democratic institutions in India will be collapsed and the
country will be transformed to a limited democracy like Turkey or
Israel.

Suicides of Farmers and collapse of Agricultural sector

In the last two years, more than 218,000 people across India committed
suicide mainly due to poverty, family feud, strained relationship with
loved ones, dowry harassment and health problems. In a research by the
Indian National Crime Records Bureau, it was noted that suicide cases
in the country were registered at 118,112 and over 100,000, in 2005
and 2006, respectively.

Most of those who committed suicide were farmers, and the victims took
their lives either by hanging or consuming poison. Aside from farmers,
women also topped the list of people in India with suicidal
tendencies. Since 1998 about 25 000 Indian farmers have committed
suicide because they could not repay their debts. These debts,
however, have largely accumulated because these farmers were severely
overcharged by their money-lenders asking for up to 32% of interest.

76 per cent of the nation's land is belonging to 23 per cent of
population. More than 15 million rural households in India are
landless. Another 45 million rural families own some land, less than
0.10 acre each, which is hardly enough to make them self- sufficient,
let alone generate a profit. 340 million people in India are dependent
largely on agricultural wage labour, $1 or less a day.[Rural
Development Institute (RDI), Washington]

Unemployment

Recently, a national report on the employment situation in India has
warned that nearly 30 percent of the country's 716 million-strong
workforce will be without jobs by 2020. Government of India doesn't
have the resources or political will to find jobs for such a large
population.

Call centers and other outsourced businesses — such as software
writing, medical transcription and back-office tasks — employ more
than 1.6 million people in India, mostly in their 20s and 30s. Heart
disease is projected to account for 35% of deaths among India's
working-age population between 2000 and 2030 says World Health
Organization study. That number is about 12% for the United States,
22% for China and 25% for Russia.

Internal Migration and influx to the cities

Mumbai, the commercial capital of India is projected to grow into a
city of about 21.9 million by the year 2015 and currently is plagued
by vast poverty due to influx from villages. There are 5 million
living on the street every night, covered only in newspaper, " says
Dr. Werner Fornos, president of the Global Population Education think
tank and the former head of the Population Institute in Washington,
D.C.

India is spending more than $400 million (£200m) to polish Delhi's
image as a first-rate capital, a difficult task for a city that seems
to exist between the first and third worlds. According to crime
statistics of 2006, Delhi continues to be the undisputed 'crime
capital' of the country for the past 5 years in a row. 35 mega cities
in India collectively reported a total of 3,26,363 cognizable crimes
in 2006, an increase of 3.7% over 2005. Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore
together accounted for more than one-third of all crimes reported in
Indian cities having a population of over a million people, for the
second year in a row.

India, a closed country

India's share in world tourism map, was hovering between 0.38% to
0.39% for number of years. Irrespective of its huge area and beautiful
nature, the foreign exchange earned from tourism was merely $2.61
billion (2006). Indian immigration doesn't welcome foreigners to visit
India. VOA facilities are not available to anyone. The easier entry to
India virtually limited to countries with considerable Hindu
population like Mauritius or Nepal. The Hindu elite leaders of the
country always concerned about India's physical boundaries and its
holy cows rather than the life of its 85 % downtrodden poor people. To
them, the national interest means their own economical or political
interests.

Indian Embassies are rated as the worst service providers around the
globe. They are notorious for 'red tapes' and ' corruption friendly
service' a complaint repeatedly quoted by Non Resident Indians itself.

Global Warming effects in India

Economic loss due to global warming in India is estimated between
9-25%. GDP loss may be to the tune of 0.67%. Prediction of loss of
wheat is more. Rabi crops will be worse hit which threatens food
security. Drought and flood intensity will increase.100-cm sea level
rise can lead to welfare loss of $1259 million in India equivalent to
0.36% of GNP. Frequencies and intensities of tropical cyclones in Bay
of Bengal will increase. Malaria will be accelerated to an endemic in
many more sates. 20% rise in summer monsoon rainfall. Extreme
temperatures and precipitations are expected to increase. [Sir
Nicholas Stern Report]

Transportation

Despite the much touted economic boom, only 0.8 percent of Indians own
a car most are on foot, motorbikes, or carts. And of all the vehicles
sold in India from April to November of last year, 77 percent were
two-wheelers – motorcycles, mopeds, or scooters. China has built over
34,000 km of expressways, compared to less than 8,000 km in India.
According to Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ASSOCHAM),
nearly 42o million man hours are lost every month by the 7 million
-odd working population of Delhi and NCR who take the public transport
to travel to work because of traffic congestion during the peak
morning and evening hours. India is having only less than 1% of the
world's vehicle population.

Road Safety

India accounts for about 10 percent of road accident fatalities
worldwide and the figures are the highest in the world. Indian roads
are poorly constructed, traffic signals, pedestrian pavements and
proper signage almost nonexistent. The other reasons are
encroachments, lack of parking facility and ill-equipped and untrained
traffic police, corruption and poor traffic culture. An estimated
1,275,000 persons are grievously injured on the road every year.
Social cost of annual accidents in India has been estimated at $
11,000. The Government of India's Planning Commission has estimated
there to be 15 hospitalised injuries and 70 minor injuries for every
road death.

According to NATPAC, The number of accidents for 1000 vehicles in
India is as high as 35 while the figure ranges from 4 to 10 in
developed countries. An estimated 270 people die each day from road
accidents, and specialists predict that will increase by roughly 5
percent a year. Accidents also cause an estimated loss of Rs 8000
million to the country's economy. About 80 per cent of the fatal and
severe injury occurred due to driving faults. According to World Bank
forecasts India's death rate is expected to rise until 2042 if no
remedial action being taken. The number of road accidents in China
dropped by an annual average 10.8 per cent for four consecutive years
from 2003, despite continuous growth in the number of privately owned
cars.

Doing Business in India

It takes 50 days to register a property as compared to less than 30
days in China, and less than 10 days in the United States and
Thailand. Average cost of a business start-up is over 60 percent of
per capita income, much higher than any of the comparator countries.

India has the highest cost of electricity among major industrialised
and emerging economies ($0.8 per kwh for industry as against $0.1 kwh
in China), result of the highest transmission and distribution losses
in the world, or in other words a quarter of the gross electricity
output. Transport costs are very high in India. It accounts for 25% of
total import costs as against only 10% in comparator countries. [World
Bank Report on India]

Foreign remittance from Non Resident Indians

In 2006, India received the highest amount of remittance globally from
migrants, 27 $Billion. Around 20$ billion are from the Gulf expatriate
workforce. Further, Indian government expects overseas Indians to pump
in about US$500 billion into the FOREX reserves of the country in the
next 10 years, making them the single largest source of foreign
receipts.

Quit India!

Sixty years ago Indians asked the British to quit India. Now they are
doing it themselves. To live with dignity and enjoy relative freedom,
one has to quit India! With this massive exodus, what will be left
behind will be a violently charged and polarized society.

Hindutva's fake National Pride on India

A 2006 opinion poll by Outlook—AC Nielsen shows that 46 % of India's
urban class wants to settle down in US. Interestingly, in the Hindutva
heart land of Gujarat, 54 % of people want to move to US.

Even Parliament members of the Hindutva party are involved in human
trafficking from India. Recently police arrested, Babubhai Katara, a
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP, who was part of such a racket. He
received 20,000 US $ per person for US migration from victims.

When Indians are fleeing around the world to find a job, how can this
hindutva idiots can claim on "National Pride of India"?

India is the World Bank's largest borrower, In June 2007 it provided
$3.7bn in new loans to India. Due to the fake 'India Shining'
propaganda launched by Hindutva idiots, foreign donors are reluctant
to help the poor people in this country. According to figures provided
by Britain's aid agency, the total aid to India, from all sources, is
only $1.50 a head, compared with an average of $17 per head for
low-income countries. [Financial Times]

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