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Indian poor starve while grain rots in depots
Published: 11 August, 2010, 06:53
Edited: 31 August, 2010, 11:02
India is home to one quarter of the world's starving population and one third of its malnourished children while, at the same time, maintaining a surplus of food grain in government storage areas.
India are spending Billions of Dollars on high tech military equipment, they are spending more billions on developing and expanding thier nuclear weapons programs, even more billions are going on building a modern space program (they are even planning to send a man to the moon in the next decade). All this apparent advancement and progress, yet they still cannot even feed thier own people. It is a discrace that all this wealth has failed to benefit the poor majority. Corruption? I don't know, but it is clear that the leaders care more about how the outside world percieve them than the welfare of thier own citizens.
I thought RT presented news without bias, but seeing insulting half stories about India has proved me wrong. Rt is getting as bad as the BBC. You pick on tiny isolated incidences and blame the whole country for it. You only show the negative, but not the massive good deeds.Ofcourse no system is going to be perfect and RT exploits this fact, just as the BBC and CNN and SKY do about Russia and every other country who disagree with them.Come on RT, give us balance.
I am an Indian and for what I know, the present government is installed by the IMF-World Bank and this is what they are best at, starving the poor world wide, arming the neighbors then loan them all to hell. My dad once told me that its not only hopeless, but its completely worthless to hope for a government that won't be a corrupt one. What I should say that the present IMF-World Bank installed Indian government cannot be trusted. Latest example is of stalling the MiG-35 after signing a contract just because they are bribing lots of easy money along Eurofighters which is a copy of Raphael and both loaded with American parts inside and will cost 4 times. It was Russia who gave us Indians not only our first Air Force fighter but also the license to make MiGs of our own. To be honest we don't even deserve that, we are among the world's top most corrupt nations.
Indira Ghandhi had the right idea ,she locked up all the corrupt officals.or useless ones.