Monday, 22 October 2012

Indian Hell
India is one of the fastest growing economies in Asia but the sad part is that they have a lot of poverty. According to a study by Bloomberg an amount of $14.5 billion in food was looted by corrupt politicians which actually belonged to the 350 million families living below India's poverty line of 50 cents a day.

“This is the most mean-spirited, ruthlessly executed corruption because it hits the poorest and most vulnerable in society,” said Naresh Saxena, who, as a commissioner to the nation’s Supreme Court, monitors hunger-based programs across the country. “What I find even more shocking is the lack of willingness in trying to stop it.”

Politicians involved in this remain unpunished because the Police, Law and Order system is also heavily corrupted. For seven years there have been NO convictions. None at all.
India runs the largest public food distribution system in the world since 1965. Still 21% of adults and almost half of India's children under 5 years of age are malnourished. Around 900 million Indians eat less than government-recommended minimums and growing prices of food through out the world means growing dependence on the subsidies. All the politicians and corrupt officials  pay the government of India the subsidized rates and sell the food to traders at market rates. This is where they make big money. This is the where the problems lies. And it has to be dealt with as soon as possible to save million lives which are worthy of more than million dollars.

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