Life of the poor lost in the chain of hope

Today I live in a country where daily I see, I hear people talk developed and a powerful country. But to the contradictory we are not. A myth developed by the media and the top brass people of our country to misguide the educated by putting a showcase of such cities which does not configure or even represents the whole country. They are busy in showing the people living in those cities, their lifestyle lavishly spending of money in pubs and malls.

Few good people in my country think about the villages and the people living there.  Lack of adequate housing and sanitary facilities along with other issues put our poor families at great risk for disease and disability. Prescription drugs and hospitalization is expensive for them. Many living there must choose between food for their children and medicine for themselves. Till today they go by the bureaucrat policies and not by the government policies, the poor and deprived ones do not even know what is going on in Delhi, they don't know what benefits they have as a children of my country. The only thing they know is what babu’s there say. What happens in the end of the days the central money's which are given to them goes in the pockets of this bureaucrat babus's or by the white shirt politicians.

Statistics has always shown the real picture to us. The World Bank estimates that 456 million Indians (42% of the total Indian population) now live under the global poverty line of $1.25 per day. Despite significant economic progress, 1/4 of the nation's population earns less  than the government-specified poverty threshold of 12 rupees per day (approximately USD $0.25). Official figures estimate that 27.5% of Indians lived below the national poverty line in 2004-2005. A 2007 report by the state-run National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (NCEUS) found that 77% of Indians, or 836 million people, lived on less than 20 rupees (approximately USD $0.50 nominal; $2 ) per day which cost half of my cigarette packet.

Disproportionally large shares of poor are lower caste Hindus. Dalits constitute the bulk of poor and unemployed.

Many see the pan-Indian social construct of caste system as a system of exploitation of poor low-ranking groups by more prosperous high-ranking groups. In many parts of India, land is largely held by high-ranking property owners of a particular dominant caste (Brahmanas, Kshatriya) that economically exploit low-ranking landless laborers and poor artisans, all the while degrading them with ritual emphases on their so-called god-given inferior status. Casteism is widespread in rural areas, and continues to segregate poor’s.

Standing water and open drainage and sewer ditches breed disease bearing mosquitoes. Diseases such as malaria, felagia, dengue and others are a constant with the poor. Depression, lost of faith, hope and other nervous conditions are the common problems among the poor. The sense of burden and hopelessness of the poor lead many to commit suicide. We curse our life because we don’t have luxurious things imagine them.