This year marks 25 Years of Economic Liberalisation in our country. But I am wondering, how none of the media doesn't even bother to write a comprehensive report on our country's, Post-90's growth, development, where we failed, what are the challenges ahead.The way India transformed in the last 25 Years is dramatic for a country, which was crying for reforms during the period from 1947-1990. But, sadly, was it an over-all growth hangs a bigger question. Telecommunications, Service Sector has grown leaps and bounds with manufacturing sectors lagging far behind.
On this very day, when we are going crazy for 251Rs Smartphone, three essential things prices never seems to come down - Health, Education, Housing. A Single Water can cost 40+Rs, who would have dreamt before 25 years that one day a situation would come to shed a significant share of our salary to Water, Education, Housing, which were not at all a big concern before 25 years.
The striking thing I feel in the last 25 years is a sudden gap that came between the middle class and the poor. Post 90's Middle classes have become upper middle classes and upper middle classes have become rich but sadly leaving behind the poor and BPL as before. The worse part, unlike before 25 years, there's no mix of middle class and the poor at all in public places, schools, theatres. With Gated communities, Multiplexes, International Schools, improved lifestyle, the current generation kids don't even get an opportunity to mix with less-privileged kids and families. Worse, the upper-middle-class kids aren't aware of another India residing in the same city struggling for accommodation, schools, sanitation.
Migration is one of the biggest challenges I've seen in the last 20 years. With people from Bihar and North-east are migrating even to the interior parts of Tamilnadu, we don't have a proper mechanism and schemes for them and their families. All their accommodation is a line of corrugated tin roofs with humans beings packed like a herd of cattle. Whether do they have ration cards, what about their children's education, their basic needs ?
On this very day, when we are going crazy for 251Rs Smartphone, three essential things prices never seems to come down - Health, Education, Housing. A Single Water can cost 40+Rs, who would have dreamt before 25 years that one day a situation would come to shed a significant share of our salary to Water, Education, Housing, which were not at all a big concern before 25 years.
The striking thing I feel in the last 25 years is a sudden gap that came between the middle class and the poor. Post 90's Middle classes have become upper middle classes and upper middle classes have become rich but sadly leaving behind the poor and BPL as before. The worse part, unlike before 25 years, there's no mix of middle class and the poor at all in public places, schools, theatres. With Gated communities, Multiplexes, International Schools, improved lifestyle, the current generation kids don't even get an opportunity to mix with less-privileged kids and families. Worse, the upper-middle-class kids aren't aware of another India residing in the same city struggling for accommodation, schools, sanitation.
Migration is one of the biggest challenges I've seen in the last 20 years. With people from Bihar and North-east are migrating even to the interior parts of Tamilnadu, we don't have a proper mechanism and schemes for them and their families. All their accommodation is a line of corrugated tin roofs with humans beings packed like a herd of cattle. Whether do they have ration cards, what about their children's education, their basic needs ?
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