question #1 mars 19, 2008

Question #1 from Alan Webber;

How are indias people handeling the  countrys transition into a growing world economic people?

Do they feel any change in the status in the world? Is there more economic equity among the people as indias economic performace grows?

After listening to Dr. Arun Sawant I get the picture of a cycle is slowly starting. It looks like the people are really aware of the growing economy and as Sunita said “In 20 years we will replace USA”. But my question is; how will they handeling the big difference between the rich and the poor people? Well, as there are no big income from the taxes as some pays a little bit and some nothing there are no money they can take from there to balance up this. But there are money from the people who earns quite good that goes to a organization that further put the money into houses for the people that for instance lives in the slums. Also the States invests a lot in this country as they see it is growing so fast. Let me give you an example; the send used plast to Mumbais slum area and let the people melt the plast and recycle it. At least it gives some people a job. We can also see that as Indias economy is growing local people start seeing education as really important, the understand that they can make a big career afterwards. University nowadays also get lot of founds. But the big problem as Dr. Sawant says is that everything is going so fast and of cause people can feel something big is happening here but they have a hard time fallowing. And that is the challenge. In my point of view the ”nature problem/global destruction” is another big, BIG issue that they soon have to do something about. But as I ask questions about this people are just laughing and they don’t really know what to answer…  I get the feeling the knowledge about this problem is far to small! That scares me. But I want to end this text with a comment from Dr. Sawant “India is the land of opportunity”. I am excited to fallow this.