IT"S NOT TOO LATE, RISE ABOVE THE HATE

Human beings are probably the most valuable resources for the growth of a country. The attributes like diligence, improvisations, courage to take risks and many more that human beings have, cannot be embedded into machines for today, who guarantees the future. We call the humans as a creation of God, who has a manufacturing unit up into the heaven. Everyone is fitted with a heart, a pair of lungs two kidneys, limbs and few grams of brain (except few characteristics that distinguishes between male and female). But as they are parceled down to earth, few turns to be tycoons, more than the few turns to be middlemen and a few fall into a quagmire, struggling for a peaceful life. The quagmire is named Poverty. All the royal places are already occupied, so we cannot blame almighty for it. And the unlucky guy curses himself inside and if asks for help then we should not turn our face. Poverty is turning to be incurable malady everywhere, but its effects are more severe in India.

Everybody is busy in grooming his career, concerned about self-development but he expects some respect from the society. We should ask ourselves what we have done for the society, and the maximum would reply “Cut the topic.” The small children working as tea vendors know that their future is into the dark. What need them to overcome their misfortune? A teaspoonful of education plus some monetary assistance and a pinch of encouragement is their requirement. But, again few freebies lovers may demand what they will get in return. This is the era when even education is ranked on the basis of annual salary packages as quid pro quo then such questions are expected to arise. Let’s inspect how our indulgence to poverty is stymieing the growth of nation.

As per the reports of the World Bank, about 11.8% people in India fall below poverty line, which means hardly 30% of would be able to arrange for basic amenities i-e food, fire and shelter. When it comes to shelter, a pale image of slum areas comes inside and our face expressions turn weird. A question waving its hand comes “why over government has failed to help them?” we should have ask ourselves first that thousand times we pass through such streets why we couldn’t help them? And these areas occupying the roadsides however question our system regarding infrastructural development. An infrastructure is the basic thing that reflects the growth of a country at first sight.

Poverty and illiteracy are interrelated. Poverty stricken cannot overcome illiteracy, unless he is given selfless support. Similarly, an illiterate person cannot overcome poverty, except the one gifted with acres of land from his forefathers. The per capita income of nation is total wealth divided by population. It means the country having more poor will have low per capita income and will be economically weak. In 1947, the average annual income in India was US$619, compared with US$439 for China and by 1999; the numbers were US$1,818 for India and US$3,259 for China.

We all have informal debates, standing by the corner of the road, arguing this country is technically advanced and that country is well equipped and ultimately feel that we still need more advancement for our nation. Had we supported the poverty stricken, from the beginning, who knows we would have more idols like Prime Minister Narendra Modi. We have now analysed that poverty is necessary to be overcome in order to see better growth. We need to support the poor people either with direct interaction or by cooperating with government and NGOs. If we are expecting the ‘Achhe din’ we need to have a sense to do the same for others also.