Five most important issues for Delhi election 2008

The first thing that comes in my mind when I think of election is the particular candidate from my area which I never have any idea till the time these elections come up. Then all i get to see is posters all around, strange na.. Just came to know that Mr. V.K. Malhotra is standing for elections from my area. He is BJP's chief ministerial candidate. No wonder all the roads are being reconstructed so what if the roads was in pieces on Diwali day but now its done:)

1. Greener Delhi

As being the capital of India , Urbanisation and Modernisation are the two words that define it. But we are losing all the forest cover due to infrastructure increase. We will be the one who will face the consequences of global warming later. So it is very important to increase the area under green cover.

2. Controling pollution of vehicles

The cng initiative was one of the best till date in india. it helped delhi reduce its pollution to a large extent, but what needs to be put in mind is that the number of cars just keep on increasing. A family should not be allowed to have more than 2 cars. There are not enough CNG pumps also.

New alternatives of energy production should be used. Solar energy is a renewable source and will never get exhausted so it should be used to the advantages of the public, like solar rickshaws etc.

3. Public transport

Public transport system also needs to be very well defined. All most all people are scared of travelling in Blue line but most of them do as there is no option. Battery operated cars should come into play and their should be smaller buses that go inside colonies unlike one bus stop in a particular area because then people prefer to take autos.

4. Development Issues

The sewage system and sanitation are just not proper enough. Only the posh areas are taken care of and the rest never get highlighted. Services should be provided to all equally. Development should take place everywhere.

Malls are being built and all we get to see next to mall is poor people living in unhygenic conditions in slums next to the malls. Children on street lights and who are begging should be given education. Government should make particular bodies to take care of that.


5. Transperacy in the system

The government should give us an account the money which is allocated to them on how it is being used. This is very important because corruption needs to be tackled as half of the funds go into the accounts of the politicians.

They should show their faces more often to the people and explain them how the funds are being used as they are for the people and by the people.

Environmentally safe - Organic cotton

Organic cotton production is the only farming system by which cotton is produced entirely free of chemical pesticides – and thereby without the risks that such chemicals pose to human health and the environment.

Organic cotton production represents an alternative farming system within which natural predator populations are nurtured within cotton production zones, and measures such as intercropping and crop rotation are used to halt the development of cotton pest populations.

Over the last few decades organic cotton production has grown from just 30 farmers producing 113 tonnes of cotton fibre, to a global total of more than 31000 tonnes. While these figures represent only a small fraction (0.15%) of world cotton production, they represent an important proof of principle that contemporary cotton production can occur without the use of hazardous pesticides. In fact, so successful has organic production proved, that global production has increased 5-fold over the past four years.

Cotton, the most important fibre crop of India plays a dominant role in its agrarian and industrial economy. It is the backbone of our textile industry, accounting for 70% of total fibre consumption in textile sector, and 38% of the country's export, fetching over Rs. 42,000 crores. Area under cotton cultivation in India (8.9 million ha) is the highest in the world, i.e., 25% of the world area and employs seven million people for their living.

As PAN-UK recently noted, ‘Most small farmers are motivated to move to organic cotton to avoid corruption in the conventional sector, health risks, debt, and by the prospect of receiving organic premiums as well as prompt cash payments. For women, the prime motivations for organic farming are improved family health, and their children are not at daily risk of fatal poisonings. Their food supply is also safer, and more plentiful’. Women seem to benefit proportionately more from organic cotton production, particularly from the freedom to control their own incomes.

Driving Change by Buying Organic

Demand for organic products among Western consumers is substantial, and growing. In a 2005 survey prepared by Ipsos MORI almost half of British consumers reported buying organic products, with many registering environmental concerns among those that shape the way they shop. In 2003, UK market growth for organic cotton was estimated at 38% per year, and continues to grow at a steady rate. To add to this, major clothing retailers, including Wal-Mart, Harrods, Marks and Spencer, Coop Switzerland and Italia, Migros, and Monoprix are all now offering organic clothing ranges.

The growth in sales of organic cotton products is greatly enhanced by the existence of comprehensive labeling systems which enable consumers in the developed world to make informed choices about the type of cotton they wish to purchase. This vital connection, which endows the global cotton supply chain with a degree of transparency and traceability, may be our best hope to date of harnessing the concerns of those in the West as a powerful economic force for improving the lives of the million of people who work to grow cotton in the developing world.

global warming

Global Warming is defined as the increase of the average temperature on Earth. As the Earth is getting hotter, disasters like hurricanes, droughts and floods are getting more frequent.

Over the last 100 years, the average temperature of the air near the Earth´s surface has risen a little less than 1° Celsius (0.74 ± 0.18°C, or 1.3 ± 0.32° Fahrenheit). It is responsible for the conspicuous increase in storms, floods and raging forest fires we have seen in the last ten years, though, say scientists.

COVERAGE BY INDIAN MEDIA :-

India has an energetic civil society in which the media plays a key role in providing a forum for debate and discussion. The print media—by far the most prolific in a country where access to electronic media is exclusive—is largely private, owned by single families or corporations. These publishing houses have large control over the flow of information and on setting the tone of public debates, not least on climate change.

A survey by the Global Nielsen Survey in 2007 suggested that 70% of literate Indians use the press as their primary source of information on climate change. The press debate and coverage influence public understanding and perception, and those reading the press influence the government through voting and wider public pressure campaigns, such as the 1,000-strong New Delhi Climate Rally in December 2007.

Over the last six years the Indian press has given increasing attention to climate change, a turnaround after a long period since the 1980s during which the issue was largely dismissed in the country.

Historically, the Indian government and press had followed the line captured by Indira Gandhi’s statement in 1972 that “the environment cannot be improved in conditions of poverty”. Indian delegations at summits have continually argued that, in the words of one official, “had the emissions of the developed world been that of the developing world, the world would not face the threat of climate change”.

Since 2002, however, the Indian press has begun to pay increasing attention to climate politics, with coverage increasing by 280% between 2002 and 2005. Rapid and dangerous climatic change is reported in impressive scientific detail, often quoting specific reports from academic journals to inform readers about the plight ahead.

There is a close focus on the environmental threats from climate change, particularly that which may occur in India specifically: 75% of the articles on climate change between 2002 and mid-2007 suggested that India was “under threat” from climate change. Moreover, the press focus on these threats was centered on the impacts to Indian people themselves, rather than impacts on industry or absolute growth.

Two-thirds of the 75% of articles were concerned with either monsoonal change, Himalayan glacial retreat or falling crop yields. There appears to be a suggestion among the newspapers that climate change will bring catastrophic environmental change to India and that the people on the ground will suffer.

source : www.chinadialogue.net

source : - http://currents.ucsc.edu/04-05/09-06/coverage.html

Diwali...

Well this time Diwali came really fast and I din even come to know when it went. I was sick for a week before it and a week after it, but amazingly I was fine on the Diwali day:)

This Diwali was a very close knit one with just mom, dad bro and me. Just a few relatives who came for lunch. We decided not to burst any crackers so environmentally it was great.

As far as the gift was concerned, I gifted a boy who worked in one of the shops from where I bought some clothes and I gave him a pair of shoes. I had seen him working without them.

I felt bad and decided to give him the shoes. The smile on his face made my diwali completely successful and my smile too didn't stop.

God knows what satisfaction can do to you, It keeps you grounded and yet you can fly high.

Passion

I have been thinking really hard on what’s my passion since these holidays began. I thought about different genres of things and realized that my passion is not narrowed down to any one particular thing. PASSION means boundless enthusiasm. When I read the definition I realized that all the things I love doing are because I am enthusiastic about them be it my hobby like reading or music or any such thing. I am passionate about all the things which I choose to do on my own and are not put down my throat.

I always thought my passion was journalism but now I know that journalism is a very vast field, too many things involved. It has become a kind of business My passion is to stand for justice. No I am not a social worker but I am a law abiding citizen who wants her country to rise on the whole, not in bits and pieces.

Another thing I can’t do without is sports. It has been my biggest passion since childhood. Not just seeing them but trying my hand on any and every game. Cricket, Kung-fu, athletics, TT, basketball, hockey, volleyball etc I have tried my hand on all. I love watching a game of football or F1 any day.

I am very passionate about music, movies and reading. I can’t say that I know all the bands in this world or I have seen all the movies or I am an avid reader but how much ever I have done I just love doing it. When I do any of the above I do it out of choice and not forcibly so I love it.

There are two things which I would love to do. Which I am really passionate about are

1. Learn the guitar completely, don’t why I left it half way.
2. Learn photography professionally.

And yeah if given a chance I would love to ban VHP, Bajrang Dal etc for spoiling the Indian harmony.

This assignment gave me a chance to discover myself. We know and still we don’t know. I think if I think a little more there will be many more things coming out about which I am passionate.

A society where thoughts seem to be stagnated, modification and alterations are always welcome. Such a thought has been put forward by the Maharashtra government. The Maharashtra government has launched an important multi-pronged initiative in 10 most backward districts of the state to delay marriage and motherhood among young adolescent girl

Imagine what kind of life would these girls have. And can we think of progressing when instead of going to school and learning for life, these adolescents became trapped in the cycle of procreation and responsibilities.

This incentive would let her fullfil her dreams and would definitely improve thestandard of living not only her but people around her. It is very necessary for these girls to complete their education and know the world around them to fight injustice so they not only survive but strife. So that their life is more than that of the men around her i.e; her father, her brother, her husband and her son. She would make sure that her own daughter never goes through the hardships that she went through. Thus it would form a chain reaction that would reach all the nooks and corners.

This has been begun in Maharashtra. It would b e great if it spreads in the whole country and definitely the result would be much better than expected. Because Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Fight for your rights

I was finding a topic to write on when a strange headline hit me, it said : The poor pay bribes of over Rs 8,000 million to access public services.

The artice said that : A study on corruption across India reveals that approximately 50 million BPL households paid as much as Rs 8,830 million in bribes in one year to access 11 selected public services. Highest on the corruption list is the police

A recent study, designed and conducted by the Centre for Media Studies (CMS) in collaboration with Transparency International India (TII), reveals that the approximately 50 million BPL (below the poverty line) households in India paid as much as Rs 8,830 million in bribes, within one year, to access 11 selected public services. This colossal amount, extracted from the poor, indicates a ruthless cynicism at work within the innards of the State.

Six of the 11 public services covered in the study are ‘need-based’ -- police, banking, housing, forests, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), and land records/registration. The rest are ‘basic services’ -- the Public Distribution System (PDS), health, school education, electricity, and water supply. The 11 services can be ranked as follows, in terms of their corruption count: police (1), land records/registration (2), housing (3), water supply (4), NREGS (5), forests (6), electricity (7), health (8), PDS (9), banking (10), and school education (11). Need-based services, being monopolistic and/or involving asset-creation, rank relatively high on the corruption scale compared to basic services.

Strange it is when we talk of erradication of poverty when the people who are suppose to help the poor and the needy to rise up are the culprits themselves. But if we are a little more vigil about the happenings around us , we can ourselves help in making the system more transparent. We have got so used to the corrupt system that it has become a part of our life. We have just followed the flow and never tried to drift away because its difficult.

We have to be the change to follow the change. Cribbing doesnt help. If there is something that is wrong we must state itrather than ignoring it. The poor and the underpreviliged need someone to look after. It has to be you and me, the urban english speaking middle class.

National Disability Network

According to the government estimates there are around 70 million disabled in India, of which only 2% are educated and 1% employed. A survey shows that, Indians spend Rs 72,000 crore per annum in caring for their disabled family members. The government bears only a fraction of this cost.

The idea of forming a national-level disability network came from the need to build a strong cross-disability rights movement in India.

The aim of the National Disability Network (N.D.N.) is that the cross disability rights movement is spread equitably across the entire country, and that there is an environment of empathy towards the rights and the needs of persons with disability. The goal of the N.D.N. is to have at least one disability organisation/disability group in all 593 districts of our country.

One of the most phenomenon succes has been The Delhi Metro - The facilities on the metro system are not only modern and aesthetic, but are also easily accessible for disabled commuters, including elderly people. It is probably the only agency involved with transportation in India that has incoporated accessible design in its facilities.


The new accessible New Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (D.M.R.C.) is ready for use by disabled people and seniors. It is probably the only agency involved with transportation in India that has thought of constructing an overhead ramp for the physically challenged.

The ill and the disabled persons who cannot use the foot over bridges or subway, can now take the ramp from St Stephen's side at Tis Hazari station, and directly reach the concourse or ticketing area, which is on the second level of the station.

SOURCES : national disability network site

Solution for a better tomorrow

In my last blog about slums, I wrote that to acknowledge that there is a problem is the beginning of its solution. Though this problem is wide spread and really affects a huge population of our country but we begin with it right here.

There are two ways to solve the problem of slums:

1. Provide better facilities to the people who have come to the cities. Which will need an investment by the Government but the result would be worth any amount spent.

2. To catch hold of the problem at its root cause, i.e., to make the atmosphere in villages as such that million of people from villages don't have to leave their homes.

Right now, I would be laying emphasis on improving Housing and Health Facilities for Urban Poor .

Currently, 40%-45% of India's urban poor live in slums or squatter settlements. The rest live under bridges and flyovers, pavements, or in overcrowded tenements.

The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India estimates that a meagre investment of Rs 7 billion is required to provide basic living and health facilities to poor urban-dwellers.

Over 40 million low-cost dwellings and 500 additional urban health and family welfare centres need to be built to provide basic housing and health facilities to India's approximately 190 million urban poor.

Delhi Government has already took an initiative to provide low-cost housing to nearly 4 lakh slum-dwellers in and around the national capital. This is a welcome step for the people of Delhi who are very much in need of a shelter.

The states such as Maharashtra, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, in particular, should come up with such schemes as they are the host to migrant workers from all over the country who gradually settle in places that offer them steady employment.

According to study by ASSOCHAM the population of urban-dwellers will exceed 225 million urban poor by 2015, from the current figure of 190 million. States in which the urban poor population will grow manifold include Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu as these states have been recording a 30% growth in urban poor populations in recent years.

A very important role can be played by real estate owners and pharma giants. The former can provide accomodation at affordable rates and the later can provide medicines and other essentials at concession if not directly to them atleast to the health centres.

There should be a law that makes it compulsary for all schools to teach a particular number of these poor children without any fees as the y already are earning huge amounts.

source : infochangeindia.org

an idea can change our life!

You and I together are just mere tiny creatures on this earth which itself tiny in this universe! But we tiny little dots can make a difference and do small small things which would help in improving our surroundings and saving our environment.


And the best part about this idea which was suggested to me by Abhay Sir ( OUR Development Comm teacher) is that this can be carried out from our homes itself.

We should encourage our parents and ourself try to start segregating waste if it is not done.
We should keep a box in which we can put waste like empty bottles, used pens, plastic wrappers from breads, milk, bakery, tea etc. Once this box is filled we can call a rag picker and give it to her/him.

This would not only make the help in keeping the environment clean but also would help the rag pickers to earn his bread. It would be like generating employment for them.

The biodegradable waste can be put in plants.

Simple Things can make a lot of difference.

A slum, is defined as a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security. The main characteristics of slums are Urban Decay, High Rates of Poverty and Unemployment.

In the year 2001, for the first time in India's history Census Data was collected for Slums. The data was collected from cities and towns having a population of 50,000 and above. 640 towns/cities in 26 UTs/States have reported Slum population. Andhra Pradesh has the largest number of towns (77) reporting slums followed by Uttar Pradesh (69), Tamil Nadu (63) and Maharashtra (61).

According to this population of slums all over India is 42 million from the 607 cities/towns reporting slums. This comes to around 4% of total Indian population( India's population in 2001 was 1.2 Billion). It constitutes 15 percent of the total urban population of the country and 22.6 per cent of the urban population of the states/union territories reporting slums. 11.2 million of the total slum population of the country are in Maharashtra followed by Andhra Pradesh 5.2, Uttar Pradesh 4.4 and West Bengal 4.1 million.

The strange fact is that the first census of slums took place as late as in 2001, but to know that there is a problem is the beginning of solution of the problem. There is a particular pattern in growth of slums and they have some basic needs that need to be looked at. They are as much the citizens of our country as we are. The GDP increase will never help if these people are ignored.

THERE IS ONLY ONE SOLUTION

TO REMOVE POVERTY AND NOT THE POOR.
sources: censusindia.gov.in

Interview with the Maid...

Sometimes we are so insensitive to our surroundings that it takes an assignment to know the people without whom we can not survive a day. In this assignment I have questioned my Maid on some of the things that concern their life a lot.

Babli has been working at peoples home since childhood. She herself doesn’t know the years she has been married for. I asked her the following questions:

Q: Common ailments she suffers from.And where does she go for treatment.

A: Headache, cold, fever. She goes to the chemist generally and asks him to give the suitable medicines. She doesn’t go to the doctor till something really bad has happened.

Q: Do children study?

A: Yes, all three children study . My daughter is in 10^th , another daughter in 6^th and son in 6^th .

Q: Which school?

A: All 3 study in Govt schools whose name she did not know.

Q: Do they get midday meals in school?

A: pehle dete the, abh nahi dete

Q: Why does she want children to be educated ?

A : It is very important to get them educated so that they don’t live a life of hardship and uncertainity like me and my husband

Q: How much education has she herself received?

A: Main kabhi school nahi gayi hoon par bacho ko padhake saari khushi mil jayegi.

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THE SORROW OF BIHAR

After breaking an embankment panel upstream in Nepal, the river KOSI ( Bihars tragedy) has chosen the path it abandoned 200-years ago. This sudden change has led to floods, affecting the life of a billion and their source of income.

The relief operations have started and even funds have begun to flow in, but the extent of damage is hard to imagine. There has been no full stop to the destruction by this monster.

Seen from a satellite, the area looks like a conical fan. Created by hundreds of years of shifting, it is the largest such cone in the world, covering an area of over 15,000 square km. The cone is made up of various courses of Kosi and the land in between, which gets submerged during floods.


The biggest challenge is that this is just the beginning of the problem, for one, the changed course of the river has swallowed millions of hectares of land and which are hardly going to resurface even after the water recedes.

These areas are technically in the river bed, thereby completely uprooting those living in these areas—not to talk about the loss of agriculture land, houses, livestock, ponds, wells and above all their lives and their dreams.

Three, the devastation of this magnitude is unheard in modern civilisation, with the entire Kosi civilisation on the verge of eclipse

SOURCES : ( TOI website, i government )

NABARD - A BOON FOR RURAL INDIA

There has been a particular trend in the way things work in India. Everything in this country is Politicized to an extent that the politicians are never able to come over and the common man. The bureaucracy has never been able to work out the way people want it. Corruption has always been on the High no matter what the issue is.

But amidst all this there did happen something that people welcomed with both their hands open, Its was set up of NABARD.

NABARD is set up as an apex Development Bank with a mandate for facilitating credit flow for promotion and development of agriculture, small-scale industries, cottage and village industries, handicrafts and other rural crafts. It also has the mandate to support all other allied economic activities in rural areas, promote integrated and sustainable rural development and secure prosperity of rural areas.

With its effective overseeing and monitoring of the implementation of the Government of India's programme to double the flow of credit to agriculture over a three-year period from 2004-2005, the total disbursement of credit reached Rs 1,25,309 during 2004-2005. Ground level credit flow to agriculture and allied activities reached Rs 1,57,480 crore in 2005-2006.

As on 31 January 2007 through the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF), Rs,59,795.35 crore have been sanctioned for 2,31,702 projects covering irrigation, rural roads and bridges, health and education, soil conservation, drinking water schemes, etc. Developing among hosts of other infrastructures, RIDF will create 20971 schools, 6239 primary health centres and provide drinking water supply in 7267 villages.

Watershed Development Fund , with cumulative sanctions of Rs.578.95 crore for 427 projects in 124 districts of 14 states, has created a People’s Movement in rural India.

Farmers now enjoy financial access and security through 582.50 lakh .Kisan Credit Cards that have been issued through a vast rural banking network.

Planting a Tree

On 15th of August I had gone to Jaipur to spend holidays with my dad, there I planted a DHAK tree more commonly known as the parrot tree in a park just opposite my with the help of the guard there.

I had never planted a tree before so the experience was a really nice one. There is this inner happiness in doing something like this, though I am sad that I wont be able to take care of it daily never the less dad would do the needful and I would go when ever I can to see it rise high in the sky>

The climate change in India is estimated to be far more worse than the previous calculations done. Studies show that by the year 2050, there would by a temperature rise by 3- 4 degrees than current temperatures over current temperature would change the rainfall pattern too on a very large scale. Rains are predicted to be heavier but scarcely thus abrupting agriculture completely.

This study results are conducted by Pune's Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, one of the key government institutions studying climate change in India. The findings are currently under review by a well-recognized scientific journal.

If even a part of the projections turn into reality, the IITM model has dire implications for almost all aspects of life in the country — AGRICULTURE, POWER, WATER RESOURCES.

This study is and eye opener for India. According to it Northern India and Western India would be worst affected and slowly and gradually it would move towards the south.

Imagine heavier rainfalls? What would happen of our country or taking an example just of our capital where one hour of rainfall disrupts the life of the masses and leads to traffic jams for hours and hours. If it rains for a day or two our life would come to stand still. Other places in the country are also not better off.

So there has to be planning doneand methods found out to use the water in the right way and reduce pollution so that ozone is layer is saved so as to not face catastrophic situations later where the solution would be just impossible.

Independence

Tomorrow is 15th August, our 61st Independence day! So here we are changing from slowly addin years to our life to life to our years. 15th August 1947 is a GOLDEN LETTER DAY IN INDIAN HISTORY. We got our well deserved freedom for which our forefathers had struggled very hard. Its simply due to that day we can practice all the rights.
But Independence Day is just 1 day, there are 364 other days in the year. So actually speaking each day is as important as the 15th August. I don't need a day a day to practice my rights in my own country and that goes with my duties too. They are not meant for a special day. I can't be insensitive on the rest of the days and suddenly turn patriotic on 15th August!
My duties for my Alma Mater have to be done daily, they maybe really small and insignificant but all these small things add up to it. A population of a billion plus can definitely make a difference with their small little significant things for our country.


Freedom is not a Right but a Feeling!
Let's be proud to feel the Freedom!
all of us get to-gather &
Celebrate Our Freedom

By helping those who need it the most
Lets be the guiding light instead of finding 1


Stop cribbing and start acting
Jai Hind!

Shrinking Water, Burgeoning Needs.

India faces a turbulent water future. If the practices are not changed very soon, India will be on the verge of facing a severe water crisis and to add to the problem it neither has the cash nor the water needed by its growing economy and its ever rising population

Due to lack of water supply and low levels of connectivity of water resources, farmers and urban dwellers alike have resorted to helping themselves by pumping out groundwater through tubewells. Today, 70% of India’s irrigation needs and 80% of its domestic water supplies come from groundwater. This practice has led to rapidly declining water tables and critically depleted aquifers, and is no longer sustainable.

Ganga flows around 1550 miles, passing (and giving life to) some of the most populous cities of India, including Kanpur (2 million), Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, and Calcutta (14 million)

The major polluting industries on the Ganga are the leather industries, especially near Kanpur, which use large amounts of Chromium and other chemicals. However, industry is not the only source of pollution. Sheer volume of waste - estimated at nearly 1 billion litres per day - of mostly untreated raw sewage - is a significant factor. Also, inadequate cremation procedures contributes to a large number of partially burnt or unburnt corpses floating down the Ganga.

Take the example of river Yamuna which flows through the heart of our capital city and forms the base support of all our water needs. Yamuna enters Delhi at Palla village 15 km upstream of Wazirabad barrage, which acts as a reservoir for Delhi. Delhi generates 1,900 million litre per day (mld) of sewage, against an installed wastewater treatment capacity of 1,270 mld. Thus, 630 mld of untreated and a significant amount of partially treated sewage enter the river every day.

The Wazirabad barrage lets out very little water into the river. In summer months especially, the only flow downstream of Wazirabad is of industrial and sewage effluents. Lesser discharge means lesser river flow and thus, greater levels of pollution. From the Okhla barrage, which is the exit point for the river in Delhi, the Agra canal branches out from Yamuna. During the dry months, almost no water is released from this barrage to downstream Yamuna. Instead, discharges from the Shahadara drain join the river downstream of the barrage, bringing effluents from east Delhi and Noida into the river. This is the second largest polluter of the river after the Najafgarh drain.

Water crisis has already hit a major chunk of the population, mainly the areas that are economically productive and with high population. According to Estimates by 2020, India’s demand for water will exceed supply from all the possible sources. We hardly have around a decade to save ourselves. If plans remain just on paper we will remain no more.

primary health centre

As we know, In India, fertility, mortality and morbidity remain unacceptably high, both compared to countries in the region and those at similar income levels. Although poverty and low levels of education are the root causes, poor stewardship over the health system bears some responsibility. India’s primary healthcare system is based on the Primary Health Centre (PHC) which is not spared from issues such as the inability to detect diseases early due to lack of multi-disciplinary medical expertise and laboratory facilities and insufficient quantities of general medicines. At the same time, patients usually do not visit PHCs in the early stages of their diseases, while healthcare providers (if at all present) are forced to focus only on seriously ill patients due to the volume of cases.

Studies from developed countries demonstrate that an orientation towards a specialist-based system enforces inequity in access. Health systems in low income countries with a strong primary care orientation tend to be more pro-poor, equitable and accessible. At the operational level, the majority of studies comparing services that could be delivered as either primary health care or specialist services show that using primary care physicians reduces costs, and increases patient satisfaction with no adverse effects on quality of care or patient outcomes.
In India, Primary Health Centres are the cornerstone of rural healthcare; a first port of call for the sick and an effective referral system; in addition to being the main focus of social and economic development of the community. It forms the first level of contact and a link between individuals and the national health system; bringing healthcare delivery as close as possible to where people live and work.


Henceforth, as said health is wealth...
so we should all join hands to promote this concept of health care and not be negligent about it!

CHANGE DOES NOT NECESSARILY ASSURE PROGRESS, BUT PROGRESS IMPLACABLY REQUIRES CHANGE.
EDUCATION IS ESSENTIAL TO CHANGE, FOR EDUCATION CREATES BOTH NEW WANTS AND THE ABILITY TO SATISFY THEM.

India covers around 2.4% of worlds land area and and around 15% of the w orld's population. Around 70% of the population lives in villages and the rest in the cities. The literacy rate of our country according to the 2001 census is 53.7 %. The number of illiterates in our country is equal to the population of the Unites States. Although the over all poverty has decreased in the last fifty years, more than 25% percent of our population lives on less than 2 dollars a day. Health also has statistically improved as compared to the past however, 34 percent of India’s children under age five are malnourished, and maternal deaths account for nearly 25 percent of the world’s childbirth-related deaths.

I haven't written this article to throw STATS on your face. Here the issue is much more serious and needs to have an in depth analysis of whats wrong with our country. Why are there no solutions to our problems? why?... Why are there billions of schemes made and not even one executed. why don't we care. And here I am not going to blame the politicians at all. Thats always been the easiest way for us ( u and me who together make a billion) to escape.

It's because of our insensitivity that we never even think about these issues. I, Me,Myself syndrome is just in the air. All we think about is our desires. All we talk about is Clothes, Accessories, Gadgets, good food, drinks etc etc...

There is nothing wrong in it. The point that I am trying to put forward is just get involved a little more in our country's welfare. The best example is Teach India. Critics call it a corporate movement but then because of the corporate power its actually doing wonders! An odd 60,000 have already began teaching. Imagine what good it must be doing! Moms learning from their daughter how to spell their names, sounds very small but imagine the immense pleasure the teacher and the student must be having! Though we never acknowledge it but we all know its a blessing to read and write! what would we have been without this? We cant even dare to think about it.

The root cause to all the miseries in our country is illiteracy.
Education would return each one of them their voices which they had lost somewhere down the line. They will not only become better humans but better citizens who can differentiate between right and wrong and who can raise their voices against all those corrupt people who could first manipulate them easily because Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.