PS I have access to better quality health and education too.
Where do you study and live?
I mean India's 15.2% population is malnourished compared to Pak's 22%. For education, from average years of schooling, literacy rate, Education Index, ranking of school and institutions, India is primarily a better place than other third world countries in institutional ranking especially.
I'm a new member on this forum and have no authority to post links currently, otherwise I can provide reports.
Didn't intend to troll honestly, I just spotted your post about comparison with Islamabad and Lahore, India has a lot of modern cities with a lot of active metro train and bus systems (monorail, metrino and bullet train tracks in trials).
You can assert yourself as much you want but your message was clear. So.
Massive urban constructions and pro-capitalist shopping plazas are never a measure of success and development. Trust me, I have seen all this stuff in Islamabad and Lahore,
If urban growth is nice and this thing reaches even small cities, it's pretty good.
As the other guy raised the point about density of such things, we're not posting small cities because they haven't skylines. Otherwise facilities have reached even smaller towns. India's growth isn't centred towards big cities only, it's visible throughout the country.
sometimes even in a better form,
I can even show you hundred times better which won't even centred in North India or Mumbai. On the face of people directly who call North East India backward.
Nearly 45% of Pakistani urban population lives in slums compared to India's 24%, I have no authority to post link yet but you can Google for UN stats.
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In how many aspects Pakistan does, India has strides in most aspects in infrastructure, second largest road network, larger than China's.
but never felt any emotionally driven proud.
Ever watched China and Far East Section?
Chinese members fill it with their multimedia as a representative of their growth. So, this is our version.
The real parameters to measure development and national welfare is to see poor and rich, both, having same opportunities of justice, health and education.
Sure, few decades ago India had just 52% (about half) of Pakistani per capita income, many folds higher poverty ratio and malnourishment rate, lower HDI and literacy and most indicators which India covered up one by one after 90s. Agree or not, social progress in India has taken place much faster than Pakistan.
There's a good reason that India's HDI is 0.609 (Pak at 0.538) and higher quality of life index.
Still, India is nowhere near we wanna be. So, this thread represents a picture what India wants to be.
And "same income and facilities" don't matter. Developed countries have higher income gaps but still middle class of developing countries is nowhere near their "poor" people.
Gap may expand but capitalist economy grows way faster than socialist ones.