Can you believe these....

Children comprise 50% of Jharkhand's workforce.
(The Daily Pioneer, June 11, 2002)

There are only 16,500 primary schools for 34,000 villages in
Jharkhand.
(The Daily Pioneer, June 11, 2002)

About 78 percent of street children in New Delhi were found to be
addicted to correctional fluids, cannabis, smack, alcohol and other
drugs on regular basis, revealed the survey by an NGO Association for
Development (AFD) on 1500 such kids.
(The Daily Excelsior, June 03, 2002)

According to International Diabetes Federation, India currently ranks
number one in diabetics between the age group of 20 and 70. The
country has a diabetics population of 32.7 million.
(The Times of India, Bangalore, March 7, 2002)

Despite a substantial increase in food grain production since
Independence, nearly half of the world's hungry people reside in
India, a report by the World Food Programme (WFP) said.
It said about 35 percent of India's population is considered food
insecure, consuming less than 80 percent of minimum energy
requirement.
(The Times of India, Dehradun, April 25, 2002)

India has the highest number of AIDS-infected people (as on March 1,
1999). 10,000 new infections happen each day.
(The Times of India, Bangalore, March 7, 2002)

According to International Diabetes Federation, India currently ranks
number one in diabetics between the age group of 20 and 70. The
country has a diabetics population of 32.7 million.
(The Times of India, Bangalore, March 7, 2002)

14.4 per cent of 10 to 14 year old children in India are child
labourers.
(The Statesman, February 4, 2002)

An overwhelming majority of Indians (80 per cent) suffer from iron
deficiency and depression could become the country's number one killer
by 2025.
(The Times of India, December 28, 2001)

India with a total expenditure of 12.9 billion dollars accounts for
only 0.9 per cent of world's total public expenditure on education.
(The Hindu, December 9, 2001)

With a victim every minute, tuberculosis is India's deadliest
infectious disease.
(India Today, November 12, 2001)

A fifth of infants below five who die in India are victims of
diarrhoea. Statistics show that if 30 per cent of those struck with
diarrhoea in the country use ORS, 40,000 deaths can be prevented every
year.
(India Today, October 22, 2001)

25 pc of the world's blind are in India.
(The Times of India, October 13, 2001)

325 million people in India are below poverty line.
(Outlook, September 17, 2001)

50 million people in India are ‘on the brink of starvation’.
(Outlook, September 17, 2001)

According to 2001 census, 6 percent of Andhra Pradesh's population is
disabled of whom the mentally challenged constituted one-fourth.
(The Hindu, August 11, 2001)

One out of every two children between the age of six and fourteen has
no access to primary education.
Courtesy: Corporation Bank (Ad in The Hindu, August 15, 2001)

According to the World Health Organisation, 55% of urban population
in India does not have adequate housing.
(www.akanksha.org, July 15, 2001)

According to the World Health Organisation, half of all Indian
children under the age of 5 suffer from malnutrition.
(www.akanksha.org, July 15, 2001)

According to the World Health Organisation, 7.5 million of Mumbai's
12 million urban residents are slum dwellers or homeless.
(www.akanksha.org, July 15, 2001)

India has the world's largest number of oral cancer patients.
(The Times Of India, June 16, 2001)

According to the World Health Organisation, worldwide, 10,000 persons
die everyday as a result of tobacco use. Out of this, 2,200 die in
India.
(The Times Of India, June 16, 2001)

India is Asia's most polluted country.
(The Times Of India, May 28, 2001)

300 million people still living below the poverty line in India.
(The Times Of India, April 30, 2001)

A third of the world's malnourished children are in India.
(The Times Of India, April 27, 2001)

One out of 10 people in India suffer from heart diseases. In the next
two decades, the figure will increase to one out of five.
(The Times Of India, April 23, 2001)

Thirty million people suffer from Diabetes in India, according to the
study conducted jointly by Novo Nordisk Education Foundation and
Diabetes Society of India(DESI).
(The Times Of India, April 10, 2001)

India has the second-largest HIV-positive population, with adults
alone totalling 3 to 5 million.
(The Times Of India, March 13, 2001)

About 34 per cent of the world's polio cases are in Uttar Pradesh and
Bihar. India as a whole accounts for 40 per cent of the global total.
According to World Health Organization(WHO) statistics for 2000, the
number of confirmed polio cases around the globe was 663. Of these,
228 were in Bihar and UP. The rest of India had 36 cases.
(The Times Of India, March 11, 2001)

According to World Health Organisation reports, one person dies every
40 seconds in India due to diseases related to tobacco consumption.
(The Times Of India, February 19, 2001)

Out of total number of leprosy patients in the world, 90 per cent of
them are confined to only 12 countries and India alone accounts for
61.1 per cent of world's recorded cases.
(The Times Of India, February 14, 2001)

One million tobacco-related deaths take palce in India per year, out
of a total three million deaths worldwide.
(The Times Of India, February 7, 2001)

30 per cent children in Delhi station have HIV.
(The Times Of India, February 2, 2001)

India's blind population is almost a quarter of the entire world's
figure of 40 million.
(The Times Of India, October 11, 2000)

"India is home to nearly 300 million neo-literates, which is around
one-third of the world's neo-literate population," says Vice-President
Krishna Kant.
(The Hindustan Times * New Delhi, September 9, 2000)

National Sample Survey of 1983 reports 17.4 million child labourers
in India, while a study sponsered by the labour ministry concludes
that the child-labour force is 44 million. UNICEF, meanwhile, cites
figures ranging from 75-90 million.
(Businessworld, 3 July, 2000)

India has over 60 million disabled people, of whom seven million are
employable and waiting for jobs, according to the 1991 National Sample
Survey.
(Businessworld, 12 June, 2000)

40 per cent of Indians live on Rs 10 daily.
(The Hindustan Times, February 6, 2000)

NOW WHOEVER READS THIS SHOULD MAKE HIS MIND TO REMOVE THESE FROM INDIA AND TO MAKE INDIA A WONDERFUL COUNTRY