5 Reasons Why India Is So Dirty

[Figaro]

I actually wonder why tourists visit India.

Taj Mahal.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

I actually wonder why tourists visit India.

Check the burgeoning Slum Tourism in Mumbai and elsewhere.

Reasons mentioned in the video is right, caste discrimination is also a major reason.

Pakistan by the way is much cleaner than Indian big cities and smaller towns.

 

[lastofthepatriots]

Having never had the pleasure of visiting Pakistan and experiencing it for myself I'm sure you're right. Our populace size remains a sizeble hindrance, mixed with a developed indifference to the state of public spaces, pollution in all its forms remains a challenge.

I've been fortunate enough to glimpse the extremes coexisting in my country and it is not pretty. Change is upon us though, there is a visible push from the populace itself, encouraged by polities efforts and a need to proudly stand with other comity of nations who've been successfully in this regard. This is why I believe this movement will be successful, it's people driven rather than running on government directives.

There has been a marked change in the last decade, that is not to imply all is rosy but the long path is being treaded and hopefully we will come out at the other side for the better.

There is this group on YouTube called ugly Indians. I admired their initiative and thought there should be similar groups in Pakistan.

 

[lastofthepatriots]

pakistan is as dirty as india . i can post you pictures .

No way in hell. You can even find travel vloggers on youtube that have visited both countries claiming otherwise.

 

[PradoTLC]

Is India’s failing economy and job crisis pushing the country to civil strife?
The situation is getting more dire as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, costing livelihoods

Published: August 24, 2020 08:38Ashok Swain, Special to Gulf News

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India is an old civilisation but a young nation. It is a country with a more young population than any other country in the world.

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By 2022, the median age in India is going to be 28 years as compared to 37 years in China and the US, its perceived main competitors to lead the world economy in this century.
This supposedly demographic dividend, with having a working-age population more than children and pensioners, India will be enjoying at least till 2050.

The situation is going to get worse as the pandemic refuses to go away and the economy slumps further. Likely, a large portion of India’s idle and angry youths might furthermore get attracted to spiteful strands of religious and cast based sectarianism, bringing more social and group unrest to the country and the region
- Prof Ashok Swain

While Japan and many European countries are worried about their ageing population and its impact on their economies, the Indian government has regularly projected the population’s age advantage in claiming to have the edge in economic competition with others.

When an economy offers opportunities, a young population with skilled education can be a great asset for a country. But, when there are no jobs for the youth and the social system suffers from discriminatory practices, that can bring massive challenges for the social peace and political order.

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Almost 4 years ago, just before Trump administration was taking over, the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) in early 2017 had warned the incoming President about India’s ‘youth crisis’.
At that time, the NIC had predicted that India needs to create nearly 10 million jobs annually to accommodate its newly entering labour force, otherwise a section of the youth might get radicalised and possibly leading to social unrest in the country.
India’s unemployment rate in 2011 was only 3.8% but it reached 5.36% in 2019. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought an unimaginable economic misery in the country since March 2020. In August 2020, the unemployment rate in India has already touched at 9.1%.

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As per the data available from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), since April 2020, 18.9 million Indians receiving regular salaries have lost their jobs, and that number is 5 million in July only. Adding to these numbers, 6.8 million daily wage earners have also lost their jobs during this period.
India is not creating new jobs but losing its existing jobs in millions. The matter of serious concern is the increasing number of jobless educated youth in the country.
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A report published this month prepared by the International Labor Organization and the Asian Development Bank estimates that nearly 4-6 million youths of 15 to 24 years will lose their jobs in India due to the COVID-19 pandemic. India is also far behind in providing vocational or technical training to its youth to enable them to be self-employed.

While the country is facing serious job crises and also continues to remain as the world’s one of the COVID-19 pandemic hotspots, the youth population which was being seen as a dividend is threatening to become a cataclysm. Even if the COVID-19 crisis comes to an end soon which is highly unlikely, there are serious doubts over the recovery of India’s economy to its glory days.
Economy on a downward slope
Before the COVID-19, India had already experienced a serious economic slump. In 2019, Moody had downgraded its GDP forecast for India three times. India’s real GDP growth had reached 4.5% in 2019, the lowest since 2014. India’s economy has been on a downward slope since the decision was taken on demonetisation in 2016 and it has not recovered since then.
India’s present economic crisis is neither cyclical nor pandemic induced, it is structural. There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic and the mismanagement of the lockdown and the resulting migrant crisis have pushed the economy to so low that there are serious doubts over its ability to recover in near future.
Even some pro-regime business leaders have started warning that India’s GDP might shrink at least 5% in 2020.
The NIC had warned in 2017 of a youth crisis in India if it fails to create 10 million new jobs annually. But, forget the creation of new jobs even the old jobs are disappearing in large numbers and no hope of the situation improving soon. Thus, the real fear is the burgeoning unemployed youth labour force has all the potential instead of being a dividend to be the curse as ‘youth bulge’ for India.

This frequently used term ‘youth bulge’ as it was warned as ‘youth crisis’ by the NIC is usually used to describe the phenomenon when a society hosts the excess in an especially young adult male unemployed population that leads to social unrest.
India not only has a large number of unemployed youth population but as per the 2011 census, India has 37 million more men than women and about 17 million extra men in an age group that commits most crimes. The rationale of a youth crisis is that a country with a large pool of dissatisfied male youths due to unemployment are likely to engage in group violence.
As India tragically fails to provide adequate jobs to its youth population, the country becomes highly susceptible to this youth-bulge-related civil strife.
The ‘Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project’ in its latest report shows India is only second to Nigeria in the world witnessing a significant increase in mob violence and political disorder during the COVID-19 crisis.
The situation is going to get worse as the pandemic refuses to go away and the economy slumps further. Likely, a large portion of India’s idle and angry youths might furthermore get attracted to spiteful strands of religious and cast based sectarianism, bringing more social and group unrest to the country and the region.

Ashok Swain is a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden.

 

[Vanguard One]

Check the burgeoning Slum Tourism in Mumbai and elsewhere.

Reasons mentioned in the video is right, caste discrimination is also a major reason.

Pakistan by the way is much cleaner than Indian big cities and smaller towns.

And yet Indians keep saying there is no caste system in India, India is clean, India is getting better, there is no open defecation, there is no rape, sexual abuse.

Indians are liars and cheats, will backstab you at the drop of a hat.

 

[313ghazi]

I watched a video on youtube by Drew Binsky. He's a travel vlogger who's been to nearly every country. The cleanest city he visited was the capital of Rwanda.

Money is not required to be clean, mindset is. I have seen English people walking on the street who have stopped to pick up rubbish which was not their own. They did so purely to keep the street clean. On the other hand i've seen people walking along the street, throwing wrappers of food they have finished eating.

 

[313ghazi]

Just watched the video and it could apply to nearly everywhere, apart from the caste system point.

Govt needs to step up, but so do people, communities and small business owners.

 

[The BrOkEn HeArT]

And they didn't even talk about the open defecation, no toilets, etc.

Thanks for your concern. We will work on it.

 

[Desi_Guy]

We have cleaner cities in general. You can post pictures of slums or select landfills but Pakistan is way cleaner than India. My own small city of bahawalpur is light years beyond any city in India.

Dear Aryan / Razpak
Having watched hours and hours of vlogs from Lahore, Karachi, and Islamabad I can vouch for a fact ki Pakistani cities are no better than tier 2/3 cities of India (Kochi/Lucknow) in terms of infrastructure and cleanliness. You cannot compete with the likes of Hyderabad or Noida. Our competition is China mate.
- KRAIT

 

[Desi_Guy]

Thanks for your concern. We will work on it.

12 saal se trolling kar rha hai vo.
America mein baith ke, G#### mein toilet paper ragad rha hai.

 

[Krptonite]

There is this group on YouTube called ugly Indians. I admired their initiative and thought there should be similar groups in Pakistan.

It's sadly more to do with the attitude of the general populace over here. Cleanliness, especially in public spaces is not considered a personal responsibility, as it is in developed nations. People have this ignorant attitude about it being someone else's job. Polities efforts will only go so far, community participation and engagement is a must.

There are also numerous examples at rural level and a few at urban wherein the entire city pitched in and strived towards a cleaner India. This has had a marked effect, oasis of cleanliness have begun to propup and with local community engagement they expand further still. In this regard (poverty alleviation and city management) the challenges that the collective people of our nations face in their daily lives are very similar.

If we are ever fortunate enough to host you, it remains a personal wish of mine to showcase India at the ground level which is at a stark contrast to what generally gets highlighted in the media. Change is upon us and issues such as these being highlighted provides the necessary impetus for further change, hopefully for the better.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Seems as though just as PDF is getting cleaner by the minutes(now that green block gone)...India is also getting cleaner.

Pakistan need to get its act together, a green and clean country for the future and now.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Having watched hours and hours of vlogs from Lahore, Karachi, and Islamabad

Oops you watched all the wrong Vlogs, it seems. Should I post some here of Pakistan.

 

[Unite & Defend]

Pakistan is far cleaner and organised in general - so no need to debate that.

It comes down to civil etiquette and grounded-ethnocentrism which Pakistanis poses far more, rooted in several factors.

Saying that we still have a lot of work to do, starting with those that are holding us back.