India Pakistan Comparison 2010

[karan.1970]

Talking about comparisons, India might be an emerging economic power, but it is way behind Pakistan, Bangladesh and even Afghanistan in providing basic sanitation facilities, a key reason behind the death of 2.1 million children under five in the country.

You do realize that India's infant mortality rate is lower than Pakistan??

Rest of your post is anyway literally and figuratively cr ap

One suggestion. If all the text is in your blog, why not just post the link instead of copying and pasting..

 

[RiazHaq]

You do realize that India's infant mortality rate is lower than Pakistan??

Rest of your post is anyway literally and figuratively cr ap

One suggestion. If all the text is in your blog, why not just post the link instead of copying and pasting..

India's mortality rate does not take into account the massive genocide of baby girls and fetuses that is currently going on in India.
There are millions of baby girls missing in India, which has as the worst gender ratio under 5 in the world. The situation is particularly alarming among upper-caste Hindus in some of the urban areas of Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, specially in parts of Punjab, where there are only 300 girls for every 1,000 boys, according to Laura Turquet, ActionAid's women's rights policy official.

Haq's Musings: Female Genocide Unfolding in India

And the real crap, literally over "100,000 tons of human excrement that Indians leave each day in fields of potatoes, carrots and spinach, on banks that line rivers used for drinking and bathing and along roads jammed with scooters, trucks and pedestrians", is found in resurgent India.

“It’s an embarrassment,” says Venkatraman Anantha- Nageswaran, 45, an Indian working in Singapore as chief investment officer for Asia Pacific at Bank Julius Baer & Co., which managed $234 billion at the end of 2008. “It’s a country that aspires to being an international power and which, according to various projections, will be the third-largest economy in 20-30 years.”

India Failing to Control Open Defecation Blunts Nation?s Growth - Bloomberg.com

 

[karan.1970]

India's mortality rate does not take into account the massive genocide of baby girls and fetuses that is currently going on in India.
There are millions of baby girls missing in India, which has as the worst gender ratio under 5 in the world. The situation is particularly alarming among upper-caste Hindus in some of the urban areas of Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, specially in parts of Punjab, where there are only 300 girls for every 1,000 boys, according to Laura Turquet, ActionAid's women's rights policy official.

Haq's Musings: Female Genocide Unfolding in India

And the real crap, literally over "100,000 tons of human excrement that Indians leave each day in fields of potatoes, carrots and spinach, on banks that line rivers used for drinking and bathing and along roads jammed with scooters, trucks and pedestrians", is found in resurgent India.

“It’s an embarrassment,” says Venkatraman Anantha- Nageswaran, 45, an Indian working in Singapore as chief investment officer for Asia Pacific at Bank Julius Baer & Co., which managed $234 billion at the end of 2008. “It’s a country that aspires to being an international power and which, according to various projections, will be the third-largest economy in 20-30 years.”

India Failing to Control Open Defecation Blunts Nation?s Growth - Bloomberg.com

Inspite of your abnormal facination with Indian cr ap, I will try one last attempt to talk some sense into your thread...

You can list thousands of problems in India and I can do the same for Pakistan. At the end of the day, what matters is the outcome and today, that outcome is for all to see. India is the 2nd fastest growing economy in the world..You may chose to bury your head in the sand and ignore it, but thats your choice.

India is not a growing power because of these problems, its is that despite these. Atleast the problems we face are social in nature and we know the issues that face us and we are trying hard to overcome them. And all of those are showing postive trends. Atleast we are not fighting for our survival from terrorists which we ourselves created..

You can sit in your comfy office and keep writing stuff in your blog that unsuccessfully tries to belittle india's achievements in the hope that it will increase traffic to your site and increase your advertisement revenue, but thats all it will achieve.. And do you think it matters to anyone except for a few misguided folks whose only escape from the hell of their daily life is to indulge in poverty **** that shows the plight of poor citizens of India. This may give you and them some consolation that there are people in your enemy country that are worse off than you, but then what does that achieve..

If only you would put this unbiased brilliant analytical mind of yours in solving your own issues rather than pointing out the ones of your neighbours, you could have made a difference sir..

 

[Nemesis]

"Against stupidity, the god's themselves battle in vain" - Friedrich Schiller

That is all.

 

[IndianOcean]

31 States,
1618 Languages,
6400 Castes,
6 Religions,
6 Ethnic Groups,
29 Major Festivals &
1 Country!
Proud To Be An Indian!…

 

[Hutchroy]

Mr. Haq please stop complaining now that Pakistan is getting the latest consignments of Food Products - Meat, Vegetables, Fruit etc.

Food items may be allowed from India

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Commerce will allow import of all food items from India and waive the condition of seeking prior permission by reviewing it on a case-to-case basis, The News learnt on Tuesday.

“The proposal is on the table of the Commerce Minister and the Commerce Ministry will be empowered to permit import of food items from India, and a notification to this effect will be made within a couple of days,” a senior official of the Commerce Ministry told this scribe.

Federal Commerce Minister, Makhdoom Amin Fahim told the lower house of the parliament that the federal cabinet had struck down the suggestion of the Ministry of Commerce to give access to Afghan trucks to port cities in the South and Eastern entry point of Wagha under the ATT.

A list of seventeen commodities will be permissible for import from India by road via the Wagha check post, said a proposal. All these commodities are already permissible from sea and air routes. The list include ghiya kadu, lady fingers, green chillies, shimla mirch, Karela, Peas, Bringal, Cucumber, Lemon, palak, mooli, carrot, cauliflower, band ghobi, hara dhania, arvi and bellpaper.

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture has opposed the intended move of the Ministry of Commerce saying that it will discourage local farming as India had an edge in vegetable farming with heavy subsidies, said a note of the MinFA.

Under the current trade policy, the ministry is authorized to issue such directives without the approval of the ECC and the cabinet, confirmed Commerce Secretary Zafar Mehmood when asked for comment on the issue.

Besides the additional list of importable items, animals like buffaloes, bulls, cows, oxen, sheep, goats, camels, carcasses and half-carcasses and other cuts with bone and boneless, carcasses and half carcasses of lamb, fresh or frozen, meat of goats, potato (frozen or fresh), tomato (frozen or fresh), onions, shallots, garlic, corn maize, raw cane, beat sugar, oil cake and other solid residue, cement clinkers, long stable cotton, single yarn, cotton, steel strips having thickness of 10 mm, paddy harvesters, dryers and others are already allowed via land route and also through trucks from Wagha.

There are a total 1931 tariff lines with three broad categories under the importable items of Import Policy Order 2009-10.

Happy Eating

 

[mrwarrior006]

u can compare & compare but sooner or later u willl realize india has gone toooooo far to compare

 

[mrwarrior006]

how do u compare a country who is bank rupt(i will not use A** ) with 2nd fastest growing economy

 

[Novice09]

While going through this article and entire thread, following idiom came to my mind:

Aadmi apney dukh se dukhi nahi hai, woh dusrey key sukh se dukhi hai.

means...

Man is not upset because of his own sufferings; he is upset because others are happy

 

[karan.1970]

While going through this article and entire thread, following idiom came to my mind:

Aadmi apney dukh se dukhi nahi hai, woh dusrey key sukh se dukhi hai.

means...

Man is not upset because of his own sufferings; he is upset because others are happy

couldnt have said it better

 

[Contrarian]

People defecating in the open is not just a poverty problem. It doesnt indicate poverty, it is something else. It is to do with people's mindset.

A LOT of the villagers consider defecating 'inside' the house to be unthinkable. They cant imagine defecating in a toilet which is inside the house or connected in any way. A LOT of the NGO's trying to bring more sanitation to the villagers are hampered more by people's resistance to the idea of defecating in a toilet than with lack of funds.

 

[Goodperson]

People defecating in the open is not just a poverty problem. It doesnt indicate poverty, it is something else. It is to do with people's mindset.

A LOT of the villagers consider defecating 'inside' the house to be unthinkable. They cant imagine defecating in a toilet which is inside the house or connected in any way. A LOT of the NGO's trying to bring more sanitation to the villagers are hampered more by people's resistance to the idea of defecating in a toilet than with lack of funds.

Why people people from other countries like Indian ****? And keep discussing about it again and again.

 

[Ultimate Warrior]

In Pakistan 70 percent of people in rural areas are currently without latrines

MIR GHULAM SHAH, 3 March 2008 (IRIN) - Until just a year ago Jan Bibi and her five daughters aged 6-18 began their day by getting up before sunrise, walking a couple of hundred metres from their home to a ****** enclosed communal space, digging a small hole and relieving themselves. The alternative was to find some thick bushes and tell someone to watch out for prying eyes.

In this primitive manner the women of Mir Ghulam Shah village in Sanghar District, Sindh Province, 300km east of Karachi, answered nature's call.

Last year, however, the Sindh Agricultural and Forestry Workers' Coordinating Organisation (SAFWCO) began building 289 low-cost toilets in eight villages - one of them hers. Her unschooled husband, Fazal Din, a farmer, decided to pay.

He still defecates in the field, believing that the latrine in his house is for the womenfolk.

Of paramount concern for him was that his daughters were harassed by males watching them while they relieved themselves.

Their latrine, in the far corner of their courtyard with a supply of water from the hand-pump (also installed recently), means that they no longer have to spend hours fetching water from the nearby canal. It has also made life easier during their monthly periods.

"Now all my worries are over," 45-year-old Bibi said. "Even if it's raining I don't have to fear stepping into a ditch of ****."

Low awareness

Lack of basic hygiene awareness is partly to blame for the fact that some 4,000 young children across South Asia die each day of a preventable disease like diarrhoea.

This situation could be improved (and hefty medical bills avoided) simply by following the golden rule of sanitation - hand-washing with soap after defecation and before eating.

To boost such awareness, the UN has declared 2008 the International Year of Sanitation, and the relevant Millennium Development Goal (MDG) aims to reduce by half the proportion of people without basic sanitation by 2015.

The numbers

Although access to improved sanitation in South Asia has more than doubled from 17 percent in the 1990s to 37 percent in 2004, according to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization, coverage remains low, with two out of three people still lacking basic sanitation.

This translates into 2.6 billion people (40 percent of the world's population) around the world without access to basic sanitation facilities, of which 1.9 billion are in Asia (900 million in South Asia).

In Pakistan an estimated 54 percent of the population has access to sanitary latrines (86 percent urban and 30 percent rural), according to government statistics.

However, this data masks the problem in rural areas where most of the country's over 150 million inhabitants live.

According to the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, if in 2005, about 38.5 million people lacked access to a safe drinking water source and about 50.7 million lacked access to improved sanitation in Pakistan, on current trends, by 2015, 52.8 million people would be without safe drinking water and 43.2 million would have no access to adequate sanitation
facilities.

And while Britain s Department for International Development (DFID) says Pakistan is largely on track in achieving its MDG to half the population without access to improved water and sanitation by 2015, the fact remains more will be needed.

A survey of sanitation facilities in the country by Pakistan's Ministry for Environment revealed that only 0.08 percent of the country's GDP was spent on sanitation during the fiscal year 2002-2003, 0.09 percent of GDP during 2003-2004, and 0.1 percent during 2004-2005. These allocations were insufficient to meet development targets in the water and sanitation sector, the report said.

With its National Sanitation Policy 2006, Pakistan aspires to create "an open defecation-free environment", but it is going to be an onerous task if almost 70 percent of people in rural areas are currently without latrines.

 

[RiazHaq]

 

[RiazHaq]

India might be an emerging economic power, but it is way behind Pakistan, Bangladesh and even Afghanistan in providing basic sanitation facilities, a key reason behind the death of 2.1 million children under five in the country.Lizette Burgers, chief water and environment sanitation of the Unicef, Monday said India is making progress in providing sanitation but it lags behind most of the other countries in South Asia.

While a mere 14 percent of people in rural areas of the country - that account for 65 percent of its 1.1 billion population - had access to toilets in 1990, the number had gone up to 28 percent in 2006. In comparison, 33 percent rural Pakistanis had access to toilets in 1990 and it went up to an impressive 58 percent in 2006.

Similarly in Bangladesh, 36 percent of rural people have access to proper sanitation. The corresponding figures for Afghanistan and Sri Lanka were 30 percent and 86 percent respectively.

“This is a huge problem. India has made some progress but there is a lot to be desired. The speed in which we are (India) increasing the toilet usage will not help much,” Burgers told IANS, a day before an international sanitation campaign in Delhi.

She, however, said that the huge population in India is a major challenge. Burgers said that between 1990 and 2006, rural areas of the country has witnessed a growth of 181 million people of which 39 million people did not have access to toilets.

According to the international health and sanitation watchdog, there are at least 2.5 billion people across the globe who do not have access to toilets and 50 percent of them are in the south Asian region.

That is the main reason why 50 percent of the global child mortality rate is reported from the same region. Besides, many children suffer from diarrhoea as well as pneumonia and other respiratory problems in India.

While 88 percent of all diarrhoea case are attributed to water, and lack of sanitation and hygiene, all roundworm and hookworm cases in children are due to poor sanitation facilities.

Experts said open defecation is one of the key reasons for malnutrition and stunted growth among kids and looking at the sanitation scenario, the situation is not bright for Indian children.

To highlight the issue, New Delhi is hosting the third South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN-III). Beginning Tuesday, the four-day conference will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Over 1,000 delegates from both government and private sector from several South Asian countries including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan will participate in the programme.

“We are stressing on four major issues - urban sanitation, manual scavenging, menstrual hygiene and school sanitation,” said S.K. Singh, of Water Aid, a partner NGO of the conference.

India trails Pakistan, Bangladesh in sanitation