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.