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Problem: Extreme Poverty Fact: 26 crore people below poverty line “Life is not a bed of roses for all”. No food to eat. Carrots have zero fat content, so do plastics. Fact: 100 million people in India are malnourished “Man is what he eats .”. No clothes to cover
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Problem: Extreme Poverty Fact: 26 crore people below poverty line “Life is not a bed of roses for all”
No food to eat. Carrots have zero fat content, so do plastics. Fact: 100 million people in India are malnourished “Man is what he eats.”
No clothes to cover Fact: India is rich country of poor people “I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.”
No shelter to call as home Fact: India has about two million homeless people “Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.”
Water, water everywhere! Watermelons are 97% water, lettuce 97%, tomatoes 95%, carrots 90%, bread 30% and THIS TANKER 0% Fact: 1.4 billion people live without clean drinking water “There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.”
So many mouths to feed ; not a job in hand Fact: Unemployment figures went up from 7.9 million to 8.9 million. “Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment."
I can’t go to school, I need to work. Fact: At least 35 million children aged 6 - 14 years do not attend school. "We want bread and roses too."
Govt. Primary Schools: An Initiative "He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
Mid-day Meal Scheme: The Incentive Fact: A sum of Rs.7324 Crores was provided in the Union Budget 2007-08 for the Mid Day Meal Scheme.
NREGP(National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme): Ensuring a brighter future Fact: TheNREGP is the largest ever employment programme in human history and India will have to allocate Rs 30000 crores every year to sustain this programme.