Poverty Issue.

[Suresh Mangalgi <smangalgi@yahoo.com>]

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Poverty I believe in India is a result of illiteracy and population which
again happen to be a
chain reaction. Bad economy and unemployement are also factors which
contribute.

The first two factors are issues which should be handled by the Government
and non profit Orgs and
are long time goals.

Economy and employment are issues which can be improved by the efforts of
both the people and the
Govt.

Over-Conservative Attitude in India:
People at large try to block huge amounts of revenue due to insecurity
(about the future),
inflation, mistrust (about investment) etc. which results in slowdown of
the economy.
The motto should be Make more rather than Save more (money).

System/Organization.
A few years back TN Seshan as Election Commisioner came up with a brilliant
concept of Photo Ids,
which ran in parrallel to SSN (Social Security in US). A Unique
identification of every individual
in a country however trivial it may sound does reflect (and help) how
organized and systematic a
country is.The Photo ID scheme appeared to be a mass failure as the cards
at large were not right
or absurdly erroneous. It probably had flaws as the photo Id was not really
as important as having
a unique identification record in computerised form which could be used for
recording any history
(financial or otherwise)for that individual. A system like this would help
every person to be
secure with a history as a reference for financial institutions to easily
loan out money as
opposed to being uptight now. If money is easily available in form of loans
for
Homes/Automobiles/Businesses other factors contributing to a bad economy
like corruption and crime
get eliminated automatically.

Also Presence of a debt forces individuals to keep busy/working hard rather
than having a lowly
existence. Such a system will also help in non evasion of taxes.

Social problems:
False pride avoids people from working all kinds of jobs; Dignity of labor
should prevail in
general which increases efficiency. Agriculture is seldom considered as a
modern occupation.





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