On the journey, ThePrint meets an expat nurse-turned-relief worker, NDRF personnel, as well as some who have lost everything but want to get on with life.
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First, government statistics have sanctity. Whatever the imperfections and limitations in using GDP as the ultimate measure of a nation’s material well being, no one should believe, as many now sadly do, that the numbers themselves are suspect. Ultimately, no one benefits. 2. Inequality is a problem all over the world, especially in India where 80% of the populations subsists on less than $ 5 a day. As between states, it strains the federal compact that keeps us one nation. Some transfers from the more prosperous states to the less developed are inevitable. However, there are growing signs that the South, for sure, also the West to some extent, is now beginning to resent this process of equalisation. Not sure if appointing Yogiji as CM will help UP catch up with the rest of India. 3. Whether it is both the depletion and contamination of Punjab’s aquifers, the recent floods in Kersla, it is axiomatic that growth should be sustainable, including environmentally. Delhi in winter is a reminder that it is not, consider India’s state of the environment if GDP triples in the next twenty years. Cancer would become a raging epidemic. 4. The health of public institutions is difficult to measure, but it contributes directly to GDP growth, including in foreign investors’ decisions to come to India. We seem not to be progressing.
First, government statistics have sanctity. Whatever the imperfections and limitations in using GDP as the ultimate measure of a nation’s material well being, no one should believe, as many now sadly do, that the numbers themselves are suspect. Ultimately, no one benefits. 2. Inequality is a problem all over the world, especially in India where 80% of the populations subsists on less than $ 5 a day. As between states, it strains the federal compact that keeps us one nation. Some transfers from the more prosperous states to the less developed are inevitable. However, there are growing signs that the South, for sure, also the West to some extent, is now beginning to resent this process of equalisation. Not sure if appointing Yogiji as CM will help UP catch up with the rest of India. 3. Whether it is both the depletion and contamination of Punjab’s aquifers, the recent floods in Kersla, it is axiomatic that growth should be sustainable, including environmentally. Delhi in winter is a reminder that it is not, consider India’s state of the environment if GDP triples in the next twenty years. Cancer would become a raging epidemic. 4. The health of public institutions is difficult to measure, but it contributes directly to GDP growth, including in foreign investors’ decisions to come to India. We seem not to be progressing.