The Great Indian Paradox – Digital India versus a population steeped in poverty!!

This is certainly the Great Indian Paradox - India has launched a Digital India with investment of thousands of crores with much fanfare with a view to reach out to the remotest village through the internet. Simultaneously, a survey reveals a shocker – half of India is steeped in poverty with their monthly earnings less than Rs 10,000!!
This has been revealed in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 4 July 2015.

India has sent a mission to Mars, India wants to run billet trains, Indian cities want to vie with cities like London, Shanghai, and Paris, India wants to become a clean India through different campaigns – but the stark reality is out there.
As per the recently released socio-economic caste census (SECC), 49% of rural households show signs of poverty while 51% of households have 'manual casual labour' as the source of income.
The fact remains that the poverty data leaves no scope for assurance or optimism and, until now, every survey had been giving a wrong idea that poverty was receding.
The survey has taken seven indicators of deprivation like 'kuccha houses', landless households engaged in manual labour, female-headed households with no adult working male member, households without a working adult, and all SC/ ST households. These can all be considered as definite pointers to subsistence-level existence and serious handicaps. In view of these revelations, the Modi government would have to redefine the concept of 'Below Poverty Line'.
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