In the long term, pity all those who live in South Asia. If the conventional war capability gap becomes unmanageable for Pakistan, it will simply lead to a lowering of the nuclear threshold, which will be bad news for the entire region.
After all the theatrics...the above statement proves your intentions...
It is not the misery of the poor in India that worries you.....it is the fact that in a decade Pakistan will not be able to catch up to India's economy, spending power and conventional military capability.....hence losing its "deterrance"....and teeth vis-a vis Kashmir and other issues....
But you do bring some very important issues to light.....
Education....
Education spending (% of GDP) (most recent) by country
India spends 4.1% of its GDP on education, much higher than its neighbor..
Please read up on the Govt of India's initiative "Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan" started in 2001
Poverty allevation....
"Using state-level data for 1970-93, a simultaneous equation model was developed to estimate the direct and indirect effects of different types of government expenditure on rural poverty and productivity growth in India. T
he results show that in order to reduce rural poverty, the Indian government should give highest priority to additional investments in rural roads and agricultural research. These types of investment not only have much larger poverty impacts per rupee spent than any other government investment, but also generate higher productivity growth.
Apart from government spending on education, which has the third largest marginal impact on rural poverty and productivity growth, other investments (including irrigation, soil and water conservation, health, and rural and community development) have only modest impacts on growth and poverty per additional rupee spent."
Please see the above bolded parts....Poverty allevation is greatly increased with investement in rural roads and agricultural research...which has been a top priority for successive governments starting with BJP's initiative of the Golden Quadrilateral program...
Apart from this, India's spending on Agricultural research and irrigation make it one of the largest publicly funded programs in the world......Please update yourself....
What I would like to see from you is to prove to the members here that India is not doing "enough" or has sacrificed education and poverty for its people on account of defence spending....
Since you accuse India of spending too much on defence, can you also justify that defence should be given a lower priority especially considering our hostile surrounding, geographic location and large land mass??
Please note that India is a democracy....and we have elected the UPA to make decisions for us....unless and until the middle class of India (largest contributor to our GDP and tax) creates an outcry about the spending on defence....we dont have a problem....