The India perhaps you did not know

Much against my policy of re distributing other's data without
personal verification whenever possible, I am sending this as it may be
of some use to Civil Society activists, Church managers and Activists
in understand the underbelly of India. Senior economists at a recent
seminar agree with much of this data. John Dayal

1. 71% or 742 million people are below 35 years of age. Indians are
young
2. 29 million people are born every year
3. 94% drop out rate of children between kindergarten and 10+2
4. 6%, which is our so called educated youth, go in for a regular
college degree which may not be very relevant in today's context for
employment generation
5. 73% of all graduates from colleges are Arts graduates
6. While 95% of the world youth between 15 to 35 years of age learn a
vocation, a skill or a trade, with a choice of 3000 vocational
education & training programs, we in India have only identified about
171 trades so far after 57 years of Independence and hardly 2% of the
population goes in for formal VET training!
7. We can get engineers in India but no carpenters, plumbers, drivers
and other skilled personnel as per international standards! I. T. is
the only exception
8. I.T. is only 1.5% of the world GDP. India's present share is about
3%. We need to concentrate on the balance 97% of the Economy &
Enterprise and make it world class, for rapid economic growth and
employment generation
9. 300 million unemployed* and only 45 million have actually registered
with employment offices with little or no hope of getting employment
(our estimates)*
10. Of all new employment generated, 1% are Government jobs, 2% are in
the 'Organized sector' and the balance 97% in the 'Unorganized sector'
11. Out of our 409 million workforce, 93.5% work in the unorganized
sector and about 6.5% in the organized sector
12. 1.7% of the entire population, viz. 18 million people work for the
Central & State Government; another 9 million work in the 'private
organized sector', total 2.6%
13. Article 311 of the Indian constitution over protects employees of
the Government even at a cost to the Nation. While MP's, MLA's and
Municipal Councilors and the village Panchayats, can only be elected
for a maximum of 5 years, the officials, babus, and government
employees enjoy life long benefits of employment, in spite of
performance
14. 650 million illiterate people, based on the international
definition of the 3R's (reading, writing and arithmetic, education up
to primary level)
15. The Indian definition of literacy, "If you can write your name, you
are literate"; nobody has seriously ever challenged this definition!
16. 300 million live below the Government of India's definition of
Poverty Line of Rs.10 per day! (based on being able to buy enough rice
and wheat from the Public Distribution System / Ration Shops, which has
food value of 2200 K Cal)
17. Nobody has ever challenged this definition of 'Poverty Line'. How
can one expect people to live with a few kilos of raw uncooked wheat or
rice? As human beings don't we need more? How about one set of clothes
to cover our bodies, one set of chappals for our feet, some vegetables,
milk and fruit, in our diet? How will we cook without any energy and
fuel?
18. 450 million* live below the poverty line definition of the World
Bank's old definition of @ US$ 1 per day per person, or US$ 365 per
year. 700 million* people below the poverty line definition of the
World Bank's new definition of @ US$ 2 per day per person, or US$ 730
per year. (our estimates)*
19. Average GDP of an Indian is about US$ 495 per year per person (1.06
billion people and a GDP of US$ 525 billion)
20. India has only 1.35% of the World GDP and is 17% of the world
population. Demands are high but buying power is low. Hence we will
need to increase our export related activities by 10 times, as the
foreign markets are 75 times bigger than the Indian market. Our share
of world markets or foreign trade is 0.8%, down from 33% 1000 years
ago, down from 27% when the British landed in India and down from 3% in
1947.
21. Only 5% of Indians understand English, yet most of the websites of
the Government of India, State Governments and Public Institutions are
in English!
22. While English is a language used in countries which account for
about 40% of the world GDP, viz., USA + UK + old British Colonies, yet
in India while we talk of Globalization, we are not serious to learn
the other languages of the world, eg., Japanese, German etc, unlike the
Chinese youth who are doing otherwise
23. India is probably at the bottom of the heap, as far as the human
development index is concerned
24. We have 17 official languages, 4000 dialects, all the religions of
the world. This could be a strength. Europe has comparable diversity.

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