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How India Progressed Slowly But Steadily

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    • Publish Date: Jan 25 2018 3:53PM
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    • Updated Date: Jan 25 2018 3:56PM
How India Progressed Slowly But Steadily

Think of it! India is not picture-perfect, it has serious flaws, it has failed on numerous counts and it has miles to go. At the same time, it has accomplished feats that nations battered by invasions, wars and terrorism can only dream of. We spin out a list of India's achievements from the time it has become a republic.

  • Food wise, India is self sufficient: After Partition, 82% people of undivided India were left with the country; however, only 75% of cereal output fell in its kitty. Now that was a massive gap to fill considering that Punjab produced cereals in surplus and had an established network of irrigation canals that was also partitioned with the surplus province falling in Pakistan. Till the 1960s, India continued to depend mainly on imports to feed its population and maintain buffer stock. However, successive governments handled the food situation in Five Year Plans, Green Revolution and other food policies. As a result of these efforts, India, which produced just 51 million tonnes of food grains in 1951-52 registered production of 180 million tonnes in 1993-94, and achieved self-sufficiency in food in 1978-79. In 2016, the figures went up to 272 million tonnes. 
  • Gender equality? We are getting there: When the first general elections were held in 1951, not only was India the only country  to let each of its citizens vote in its very first elections, but also the first nation to extend equal voting rights to women in the first elections. Not that we are the flag-bearer of gender equality but at least biases are being broken. Currently, India's defence minister is a lady, its minister of external affairs is a woman, and three of its states are led by women CMs. Not just politics, Indian women are shining in every sector. Five Indian women were present in the Forbes list of 100 Most Powerful Businesswomen Of The World in 2017. In October 2015, Indian Air Force announced that women cadets would be given the choice to be fighter pilots. The first batch of three female pilots — Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh — were inducted in Indian Air Force fighter squadron in 2016. 
  • Unity in diversity is our forte: Agreed, India has witnessed communal clashes from time to time, but we have still managed to retain the secular fabric of the country. Diversity is not our weakness, it’s our strength. 
  • India is polio free: The last case of polio was recorded in India in 2011; since then no case has been registered. After the eradication of smallpox in 1970s, this was the biggest achievement in the field of disease eradication. The job was not easy and there was a time when 172 million children had to be vaccinated for polio twice a year, but we did it.

  • Schemes to empower people: If India has introduced gutsy economic policies like Liberalisation, Foreign Direct Investment and Goods And Services Tax, it has also successfully implemented social welfare schemes like Right to Information, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sarak Yojana, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, Right to Education, Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana and Atal Pension Scheme, and if all goes according to plans we will soon have Right To Food and Right To Shelter.
  • Better infrastructure and economy: India was ripped of its wealth by the colonial rule, but it came out of the wilderness like a true hero. In the years that followed the Raj era, the Indian economy was languishing at Rs 2.7 lakh crore. However, as of now, India is the world's seventh-largest economy, and if projections are to be believed, India is expected to be a $6 trillion economy — the third largest in the world — in the next 10 years. It will even surpass Japan. Even in the field of infrastructure, the country has progressed immensely with both government and private investing heavily in it after the 1991 economic policy. 
  • Anyone can become anything in India: A tea vendor’s son is the PM (Narendra Modi), another commoner (Arvind Kejriwal) who had absolutely no political background or backing initially is now Delhi CM, a bus conductor (Rajinikanth) rules the hearts of millions of cinema lovers, and a businessman (Narayana Murthy) who initially relied on his wife's savings is now known as the father of the Indian IT sector. This is the true victory of Indian constitution. You just have to dream and work hard towards it, and you can achieve anything you want. 
  • India Is ‘Space superpower’: Instead of manned space programmes or space explorations, the best part about Indian space programmes have been their focus on missions that would directly impact the common man. While India's first satellite, Aryabhata, was launched in 1975, Indian Space And Research Organisation (ISRO) has worked day in and day out to develop technology and infrastructure required to put jewels like Bhaskara-I, INSAT, Astrosat, Mangalyaan,  Chandrayan 1, SLV, ASLV, GSLV-II and Carostat etc in space. It's now even launching satellites of other nations and making money in the process.   
  • From 12% in 1947 to 74% in 2016, Literacy rate in india has gone up, up & up: Literacy is vital to the socio-economic growth of any country, and India has managed to make impressive inroads in this direction. Female literacy rate and drop out rates are still an issue that need to be addressed.  

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TANISHKA SINGH CMA, Ankleshwar

''India'' stands for the symbol UNITY IN DIVERSITY'', which is always our possession of pride! Here, people could develop themselves all throughout only in a single night. And, for that very reason, we, the citizen of India, are feeling proud of ourselves! We are also having an inspirational government which controls this very well.Along with improvement of government, we are also developing ourselves in space research for being called the top most country in the whole world!

TANISHKA SINGH CMA, Ankleshwar

I''M proud of my bestest country!

Aadrit Banerjee Apeejay School Salt Lake

"Sare Jahan Se Achha Hindustan Hamara...." - as we would be celebrating our 69th Republic Day by the first touch of the sun rays tomorrow, let us take an oath in unison that we would strive towards a resplendent future. Invigorate the positive vibes within us and overcome the imbeciles of our nation. We would strengthen ourselves and eventually India would lead the world, show the human race the path of the future.

CHHAVI RANA RUKMINI DEVI PUB. SCHOOL(PITAMPURA)

WONDERFUL ! proud of being an Indian

Fatima rida Delhi School of Excellence Attapur

🤗👍��👍�� am proud of u india and Indian army

Pratyusha Satish Rao NATIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL

India...Hindustan...Bharat....the name itself awakens that pride in us. I am proud to be an indian. I pray that in every birth, i be a part of this country. A country which has never attacked any other country on its own....a country which is the only one to have both lions and tigers..a country which respects all diversities and communities and poses no restrictions on religion etc..a country which is openly welcome and friendly to all countries. Truly, it is unique.

Pratyusha Satish Rao NATIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL

And very soon, our country will rectify its flaws and come up as a bright economy which is wielded by young and creative youth force and not by old and tired hands. Old and tired hands will just be our guiding wheels.

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