India is developing without human face: experts

Ludhiana, September 21
India is developing without a human face, where there is a wide disparity in the distribution of wealth and income, said experts in a seminar organised by postgraduate department of economics, SCD Government College. The theme of the seminar was, “Human development index and parameters of development in India”.
Dr Ashwani Bhalla, programme coordinator of MCom, business innovations, expressed the views that lot needs to be done for the development of the nation to ensure equitable distribution of wealth. He said the type of development that is taking place, is helping only a small section of the nation, which is already rich and prosperous.
The plight of the common man is deteriorating day by day with the result; India has become the number one country in the world in terms of 237.7 million people living in starvation. 50 per cent of the Indian children are affected with malnutrition, which speaks about the kind of health services, quality care for child and pregnant women as well as hygienic facilities, he added.
He said planning commission estimates that a person with Rs 32 per day income in city segment and Rs 28 per day in rural segment is not a poor, is base less and its calculations are far from reality. A human being needs at least Rs 100 gm dal, 300 gm rice and 300 gm wheat along with at least 200 gm vegetables to fulfill his minimum calories requirement. These are the statistical calculations only, which do not have any relevance in the present hyper inflationary economy.