More than one billion Indians

A GIGANTIC PROBLEM OR A SEA OF OPPORTUNITIES?

One of the most visible changes in India is its population explosion. We have the second highest population in the world, next to China, i.e. a staggering 120 crores, of which 60% of the people are below the poverty line. With unemployment and poverty being the cardinal factors which hold us back from becoming a super power, it’s up to the government to react quickly.

Dale Carnegie, one of the world’s best professional speakers rightly quoted, “If you have a lemon, make a lemonade”. Framing favourable economic policies, providing free education, ensuring that every employable person has a job will help us turn the burden of population to a sea of opportunities in a short time.

“Be Indian buy Indian”, is a phrase commonly used. Are we following it? Mostly not. With the advent of LPG (Liberalisation, Privatisation, and Globalisation) policy, Indian goods can hardly be seen in the Indian market. A shocking fact which lay shrouded is that a staggering Rs.1, 32, 000/- crores is earned by the 5000 multinational companies operating in India. This is literally higher than the India’s annual budget (State & Centre)

Nothing will happen unless we act. If we decide to boycott foreign goods and buy indigenous products, it will directly or indirectly benefit the toiling farmers who bear the heat of the sun beating down on their backs. Our economy would improve to such an extent that even the so called super power nations will look up to us. Then the one billion Indians will not be a gigantic problem.