8. Achievements so far State monopoly has been abolished in virtually all sectors, which have been opened to the private sector. The License Raj is a thing of the past. The economy has grown at more than 7 percent post reforms against 3.5 percent during 1950-1980
9. per capita income has been rising by about 4.0 per cent during the post-reform period against a meagre 1.3 per cent growth during 1951-80. Indian economy is now increasingly resilient to most of the external shocks
10. Achievements in the Social Sector Rural Infrastructure and development Bharat Nirman launched in 2005-06 has 6 components under it like rural housing, roads, irrigation etc. Up to march 2009, a total length of around 2 lakhskms of roadworks got completed under PMGSY 21.05 lakh houses have been constructed during 2008-09 under (IAY) sanitation - The sanitation coverage among rural households has increased from 21.9 per cent in 2001 to 27.3 per cent in 2004 and has more than doubled since then to 63.91 per cent (of 2001 Census households) as on May 20, 2009 Source : http://www.indlaw.com/datastore/union_budget/eco_survey/chap107.pdf
19. Poverty Indian poor constitute roughly 33% of global poor International poverty line- below $1.25 per day India(No. of poor)-456 million Global (No. of poor)-1.4 billion Figures have emerged from the World Bank’s estimates on global poverty in the year 2005 Clearly hints that the fruits of economic benefits have failed to trickle down to India’s poor Source : World Bank Report 2005
20. Poverty The rate of poverty decline in India was faster between 1981 and 1990 than between 1990 and 2005 The poverty rate for India declined from 59.8% in 1981 to 51.3% by 1990, or 8.5 percentage points over nine years Between 1990 and 2005 it declined to 41.6%, which is a drop of 9.7 percentage points over 15 years, clearly a much slower rate of decline Source : World Bank Report 2005
24. Poverty and Hunger Index 2009 Source: World Bank PHI is a new composite indicator – the Poverty and Hunger Index (PHI) – developed to measure countries’ performance towards halving poverty and hunger by 2015. The PHI combines all five official MDG1 indicators, a) the proportion of population living on less than US$ 1/day, b) poverty gap ratio, c) share of the poorest quintile in national income or consumption, d) prevalence of underweight in children under five years of age, and e) the proportion of population undernourished.
28. Ratio of Teachers India has been facing shortage of primary and elementary school teachers due to uncompetitive pay structure of teachers Source: Sixth Education Summit
30. SarvaShikshaAbhiyan The SSA programme covers the entire country and schools except private unaided schools In 2009 Planning Commission evaluated the progress of SSA 50 per cent (of schools) do not have a boundary walls and separate toilets for girls 60 per cent do not have electricity 88 per cent do not have a computer 18 per cent of teachers'posts have not been filled
31. National Literacy mission Adult literacy rate is based on the 15+ years age group The objective of National literacy mission was to make the age group between 15-35 year functionally literate, achieving 75% literacy rate, by 2007 Source: UNICEF
36. shortage in health care sector Source: Ernst & Young-Ficci projection Source: Planning Commission
37. water supply in Cities None of the 35 Indian cities with a population >1 million distribute water for more than a few hours per day (World Bank) A 2007 study by the Asian Development Bank showed that in 20 cities the average duration of supply was only 4.3 hours per day No city had continuous supply The longest duration of supply was 12 hours per day in Chandigarh The lowest was 0.3 hours per day in Rajkot
44. Our verdict – not completely ignored On the basis of above stats and discussions, we can say that no doubt we have achieved greater heights post reform period, in fact as a consequence of all these momentous changes there is a new respect for India in the world and, even more important, Indians in all walks of life have found a new level of self confidence. But at the same time we all strongly believe that the country still has miles to go and in that regard we have made the following suggestions.
54. Health Government spending on health amounts to 1.15 per cent of GDP in 2008-09 large and growing share of the burden of health care has been borne by households in India public medical systems being replaced by private providers Source: National Health Accounts for India
Deductions like uptors 2000/month in the family for individuals having annual income of less than Rs. 5 lakh per annum
Clearly a huge increase in quantity since independence and in the proliferation of private sector technical institutions in recent years
absolute levels of total government spending on health, family welfare and child development are absurdly low by international standards, not only in per capita terms but also as share of GDP. In developed countries,especially those with ageing populations, government health spending accounts foraround 5 per cent of GDP or more. Even in Asian developing countries excluding India,the average is around 3 per cent of GDP.
