I don't think it is making any impact after 2008. Status is pretty much bad if you travel in countryside. Sometimes I do feel that when I am living in Mumbai in great environment, but when I reach Varanasi, which you can count in tier two city, condition is pretty much bad. And this is the condition of tier two city. What about 70 % parts of our country which is in horrible condition where people are hungry & they don't get water leave alone clean water.
This kind of news may be feel good for a aspiring young person, nothing special for medium(like us) & elite class but lower class doesn't gets much, if you tell them about this news, they will show you how does real Bharat looks like. There is a different between shining India & Purana ladakharata Bhukha Bharat.
I feel a pain in my chest on some times when these kinds of news comes in front of me. I would like to share a event of mine related to poor people. 3 years back I went to Varanasi for 7 days. I was returning from my Nanaji home to mine. A old lady came in same public jeep in which I was traveling. She didn't ask for any money but I had made wrong perception that all beggars are third class people. But when she was about to get down at next stop, Jeep wala asked for fare charge. She pleaded that she had very less money. I thought that I should pay the money & wanted to give 50 to 100 Rs. But again some evil mindset stopped me from doing this saying that what other people will think about me. The lady went weeping. I don't know what happened to me, I came here I told this to my mother, she told me that when I was kid we were also facing the poorness even my father was 2nd grade government employee in CR. From that moment I took a vow that I will give money to poor people what ever amount comes in to my hand. I still feel the same burden what I felt on the very first day when she said she doesn't gets to eat even one time.
We can do chest thumping, we can jump but reality is we have forgot what we were once how much our forefathers have done for us.
Sorry if I offended anyone in anyway but this is how I feel.