Being Average in a Developing Country

 

Let us have a glimpse of an average person in India.

1: Income

An average person in India earns around Rs 6000-8000 ($ 100-125) per month in which he has to survive with his family. In 2012, the Indian government stated 21.9% of its population is below its official poverty limit.The World Bank, in 2011 based on 2005's PPPs International Comparison Program, estimated 23.6% of Indian population, or about 276 million people, lived below $1.25 per day (Rs 25 per day) on purchasing power parity. You can very well imagine your condition to survive in the income of an average person.

2: Housing

An average person in India lives in village in mud houses without any electricity or at the most 4-6 hours of electricity in a day. He has no LPG connection and food is cooked on wood-fire. If he is privileged to migrate to city, he lives in slums in subhuman condition similar to what is shown in picture below.

3: Education

An average person in India can’t afford to send his children in any private school. He studies in a government or municipal schools, which are in a pathetic condition with hardly any teacher to pay any attention to the student. He may pass the school because he can’t be filed upto class VIII, but his knowledge base is so little that it is of hardly any value in the job market. You perhaps have only one teacher for the entire school who also is not very regular and sincere.

4: Health Care

An average person in India can’t afford treatment in any private hospital as he has no money to pay the fee to doctor or to buy the medicine. He has no option but to go to a government hospital and wait of hours in a queue to see the doctor to get treatment, if doctor/medicine is available in the hospital. Sometime, they can’t ever survive through the common ailments due to the paucity of resources.

5: Job

Average people in India do not have a permanent job pr even the lowest level job in an organised sector. The job of a peon or even a driver is a dream to them. Most of them are employed in menial jobs in organised sectors where they work in hot sun and cold winters 10-12 hours a day to earn their living with no guarantee that they would get employment on the next day.

Avoid Being Average

If people don’t want to be average in a developing country like India, it is because their life is truly pathetic being average.

You romanticise poverty when you are rich, but you would never like to suffer this life even in your dreams.

Get out of this mediocre life as soon as you can.

Source:

Poverty in India

Pictures: Google Images

-From Dr.Awdhesh Singh's Words