Saturday, April 14, 2007

India - i love my India

Happened to see some statistics today:

Do you know where maximum income is spent by people living in slums - toilets - if it is a five member family @ 2Rs each 10Rs a day*30 days =300 Rs.

No of schools where there is no toilet for girls - 85% of govt schools

One of the reasons for girls dropping out of schools - no toilets

Number of teacher positions not filled - more than 35000

Number of trained teachers who are unemployed - lakhs

India has defined diversity in newer ways

6 comments:

Vinesh said...

good to see you're back!

i love my india too, just finding it difficult to live here.

Anonymous said...

Nice to see you back in action.

Adikadi post podunga :)

hmmm toilets reality is shocking

daydreamer said...

now i know why the pavements are dirty in india

Paavai said...

didnt know how to use the google version, figured it out today since i was totally unemployed

Vinesh - Hope you have adjusted well and are in India now

Dubuuku - it is true dubukku, it is quite shameful that the 3 or 4%of India's population (us) is seen as all of India

daydreamer - i suppose now we can empathize more with the have nots

Wellingtonbala said...

Shhh! Don't tell this aloud. The Western media will make a story out of this!

Anonymous said...

Well written article.