What it means to be POOR?

 

The REALITY of POVERTY in INDIA

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What it means to be POOR?

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How India should develop, utilizing over 600 million Village Youth POWER

India’s population, as on date, is over 1250 million. About half this population is in the age group 20 to 35. No other country has this POWER source of youth… China has less than half this number in the same age group. If India is to develop into a world power (not in the same manner as the Western Imperialists did, amassing and plundering), we need to harness this great Youth Power. The current trend is to “educate” them the way the Western nations want us to do… teach them all that THEY tell us is important, and make them slaves to Western Intellectual Traditions (… the IIT’s, IIM’s Institutes of Science, Institutes of Commerce, Institutes of Economics/ Accounts/ Business etc… all doing just that!). It is a sorry state of affairs whereby almost the entire thinkers, politicians, academicians and all “knowledge elite groups” unite in the chorus of “study the west and let us copy and mimic their development”. The result is the reverse: we become “mental slaves”.

That having said, what should we do otherwise?

Here is a slow steady, quiet activity being carried out by a small group that work on grass-roots level value additions through skill development and local resources utilization:

http://agrobiogenicscleantechpvtltd.com/why-we-are-beginning-our-village-development-programs-in-india/

The Group has begun (in earnest grass-roots level activity) Village development through harnessing the Power of Local Youth to convert Local resources into high-value products that are NEEDED locally, nationally and at international levels. Here are some Photo illustrations that explain about some of the works:

COCONUT SPLINTERS – A STARTING RAW MATERIAL

COCONUT SPLINTERS + OTHER WASTES BEING COMPACTED INSIDE MOLD

AGROWASTE MOLDED PLANK

STACK OF AGROWASTE MOLDED PANELS

VILLAGE WOMEN FOLK + OTHERS BEING TRAINED

TRAINED WOMEN WORKING WITH COCONUT SPLINTERS

 

CONVERTING AGROWASTE PANEL BOARDS INTO MOLDED DOORS

MOLDED DOOR CONVERSION

 

COMPLETED MOLDED DOOR (Two Skilled Workers, standing)

 

ANOTHER AGROWASTE MOLDED BEAUTIFUL DOOR

The above photo illustrations show how we could train youngsters in Villages to convert low value agrowastes into High Value utilitarian Products. The attempt is to cover an entire Taluk (Pandavapura in Mandya District of Karnataka). There could be 28 Clusters of six Village level groups, and at optimum levels… we could arrive at a production of about 500 Doors per day (valued Rs.3,000,000 (an approximate annual turnover potential of over Rs.750,000,000 (Rs.75 Cr). A total of over 600 local youth would have direct jobs and about double that number would have indirect jobs. This is for just ONE Product. We could develop and produce over 200 different products, ranging from small buttons to Boats and Auto Body panels.

India has about 638,500 villages. Were we to spread these types of Local Resources based value additions in ALL such Villages, the enhanced economic development would be a whopping $35 trillion (a parallel development over above the mainstream economics)

Are our Economists, Academicians, Politicians and Development Theorists listening?

Jai Hind

 

Calling all India-Supporters to contribute for India’s development

CONTRIBUTE TO REMOVE POVERTY AND TO DEVELOP INDIA

India’s 875 million villagers (out of about 900 million) earn not more than an average Rs.6000 (approximately $120) per annum. The minimum decent earnings required (at current rates) is Rs.75,000 (about $1500) per individual. CAN INDIA EVER REACH THIS percapita earnings level? What should be our development Model? Will India’s “blind faith” in the Western Model of growth help us achieve the same? If not, what is the way out?

The answer lies in TOTAL VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT as presented here:

Total Village development for India’s Development

We call up on every man/woman interested in India’s Development to contribute “SOMETHING”.

ONE: The person could join our Company by way of Shares contribution

TWO: The person could offer any Voluntary Services

THREE: The person could contribute by way of sharing KNOW-HOW

FOUR: The person could become a RESOURCE-ASSOCIATE of our Company

We look up on YOU and YOUR SUPPORT so as to reach the OBJECTIVE of creating at least TWO JOBS per family in every one of the 638,596 Villages in India… Gandhiji’s Dream of Village development and Jawaharlal Nehru’s dream of Indigenous development would be answered  through TOTAL VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (TVDP)

Village Womenfolk Working with Agrowastes

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Contact: lalitha.apix161@yahoo.com;  pvhramani@yahoo.com

Also visit:  http://agrobiogenicscleantechpvtltd.com/calling-all-india-supporters-to-contribute-for-indias-development/

Thank you all for the interest

DO WE NEED ANOTHER “EAST INDIA COMPANY” OR OWN DEVELOPMENT?

India was taken over by a mere trading Company, about four hundred years back – the East India Company. It was through this Company (which had its own army) that almost the whole of India was conquered, and later by the British. Rest is history. Today we are continuing to be mental (and physical) slaves of the western world, particularly of the US. Gandhiji’s dream of Independent India, and the struggles of millions of Indians to dethrone the Imperial “empire” is today being brought to naught, by a stroke of “Manmohanomics reform” (supported by “brain-washed” business people, industrialists, economists, journalists and so-called analysts). Very soon India would be taken over (once again) by the westerners … this time, not by war or other old fashioned conquering methods, but by our own people passing parliamentarian laws to offer India to them on a platter!

Forget about “reforms”, Industrialization, Modernization etc. What is development? To know this, we need to know certain fundamentals. This writer does not believe in any of the “statistics” provided by the Government or other institutions. But the following overall picture was understood, through independent on-the-ground self study and analyses:

1. India’s population at this moment is close to 1,215 million
2. About 750 million people amongst us live in dilapidated villages
3. About 285 million people live in poor quality urban agglomeration
4. About 180 million people live in towns and cities
5. The average income of 750 million villagers is about Rs.6,000 per annum
6. The average income of 285 million people in urban agglomeration is about Rs.15,000 per annum
7. The average income of 180 million people in Towns/Cities is about Rs.30,000 per annum
8. The average Indian family is 5.5 persons in a family
9. The minimum decent family income needed is Rs.150,000 (only City/ Town dwellers have this)
10. About 62% of Indians live at a level of Rs.16/50 per day earning (with full time work for just 150 days maximum)
    

Viewed from a pragmatic angle, the above statistics indicate that, if India is to become independent and averagely developed, about 190 million families MUST earn minimum real percapita income of Rs.150,000 per annum. This is a huge number: Rs.28,500,000,000,000 (euphemistically, this could be compared with DMK’s Raja Scam of Rs.1,700,000,000,000 and Rs.1,860,000,000,000 Coal-gate scam – the two put together would be about 12.5% of minimum earning power needs of 190 million families!).

Does the “Government officer turned Politician Economist” Dr. Manmohan Singh and his cohorts expect to take India to a developed state, through a new “East India Company” arrangement? Can the present “self centered’ and western dictated policies and arrangements being thrust on the common people by these “political goons” take India forward?

Having said that, let us look inward and analyze the possibility of creating development so that 190 million families may earn a total income of Rs.28,500,000,000,000. Is this possible? Or are we trying to reach moon?

The following are the available Renewable Resources (RR) and Inorganic Resources (IR) within India:

1. Total land area = 3,287,263 sq km (328,726,300 ha = 3,287,263,000,000 sq m)
2. Estimated total vegetation @ 35 T per annum per ha (“green weight”) = 11,505,420,500 T
3. Estimated IR on 15% land @ 1.5 m depth = 1,849,085,437,500
4. Estimated water @ 47” annual rainfall = 3,924,334,569,400 Cu m
5. Estimated domestic cattle/animals @ 350 million

Let us look at the potential values:

1. About 30% of land area developed @ Rs.10 per sq m = Rs.36,344,715,600,000
2. About 30% vegetation converted @ Rs.10 per kg = Rs.34,516,261,500,000
3. Estimated IR converted @ Rs.10 per Kg = Rs.18,490,854,375,000
4. Water available @ Re.1 per Cu m = Re.3,924,334,569,400
5. Cattle/ Animals @ Rs.10,000 = Rs.3,500,000,000,000

The estimated Indian Resources potential @ 30% exploitation = Rs.90,718,713,444,400. We could estimate the values that could be “earned” by the people @ 1/3^rd of this = Rs.30,239,571,148,133. This is well above the value of Rs. 28,500,000,000,000, which is the minimum decent level of family earnings needed by190 million families.

Thus, it is clear that India does have enough resources that could be developed to the level of allowing decent livelihood standards for not less than 2,000 million people (about double the current population). But we need Strong individuals and groups who would independently work (without being slaves to aliens) and develop these using our own wisdom, with our own people’s support

INFERENCE: India does not require any aliens to support us for our development. Let us develop ourselves. Let us not allow “armchair” economists and other “glass housed” theoreticians to hijack the development processes. Yes, we too can!

please visit:

http://agrobiogenicscleantechpvtltd.com/indias-development-through-village-development/

http://agrobiogenicscleantechpvtltd.com/why-we-are-beginning-our-village-development-programs-in-india/

JAI HIND