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Where India stands in Global Hunger Index ?

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Recently the Global Hunger Index ( GHI ) published a list on 117 countries . And our proud ful country India was in 102nd below Nepal , Bangladesh and even Pakistan . GHI is a meater which includes many countries over the world every year . The lower the country is on the list the more critical situation it is facing .  They calculate through 4 major factors  1- The proportion of the undernourished as a percentage of the population . 2- The proportion of children under the age of five suffering from wasting  3- the proportion of children under the age of five suffering from stunting .  4- The mortality rate of children under the age of five .  Let me show you some numbers . 38% children under 5years show stunted growth .  21% children malnourished .  No improvement in child malnourishment in 25years . 19 cr. people go hungry everyday .  14.5% of population in undernourished .  3000 children die everyday from poor diet related illness

Is Indian education system in danger ?

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 Indian education system is a very complex system or so called problem . Mainly in India there are two tipes of schools - public ( central , state , local ) and private schools . According to Indian constitution free and compulsory education is provided to children between the age of 6-14 . The approximate ratio of public school to private school in India is 7:5 . Well the central board and most of the state boards follow the 10+2+3 pattern . 10 years in school , 2 years in junior college and 3 years in bachelor degree . There are total number of 799 universities and 39701 colleges in our nation .       Universities        459( general )       101 ( technical )       64 ( agricultural and allied )       50 ( medical )       20 ( law )       11 ( sanskrit )        7 ( language ) So what's wrong with our education system ? In India 12 % students between 12-16 years age have psychiatric disorder , 4 students are suiciding everyday , overall 10% people have me

Water Crisis on Earth

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Ok , the matter is getting serious . It's a real issue that we should put our heads out from politics and to look into . We are having a water crisis , not just India the whole world . To next year India's over 21 big cities would not have any ground water left . Capetown is already facing it .   Our world's 70% is covered with water and 97% of it is salt water , 2% is frozen in glacier and ice caps . Only 1 % is fresh water for capable of drinking and should be enough for everyone . But it isn't . One out of every 8 people everyday is searching for clean water . In every 20 seconds a child dies from water related illness . Samrat Basak ( WRI India's Urban water program ) said - " After 1990s because of the globalization of the economy the Indian economy also expanded very rapidly to cope up with such a rapid growth especially in the urban centers of India . We started building up the cities in an unmanaged and unplanned fashion in that process we some how

Heritage of Durga puja in Bengal

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Durga puja is one of the biggest festivals in India . In Bengal it is not just a festival it's an emotion tk all the bengalis .    Durga puja is organized in the moth of September - october . Durga puja in this time is called ' Akal Bodhon ' . Well everyone knows the story behind goddess Durga .  But when was first organized Durga puja in WB ?  If we talk about the history , the land owners ( zameendaars ) of Malda and Dinajpur were first started Durga puja in 15th century . According to other sources Kangsha Narayan the king of Tahirpur and Bhavananda Mazumder first in 1606 organized ' Saradiya Durga Puja ' . After that in WB came ' Baroyari Puja ' .   In Hugli district's Guptipura 12 friends collected fund from local people and started Durga puja and named ' Baroyari Puja ' . It was the first time where first time common people participate in it .  From 1828 to 1831 Raja Harinath organized Durga puja in his raj bari in Murshidabad .

Indian politicians in a nutshell

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Politics - In India it is a huge festival for common people and for politicians it's world's best business ever . Just spend some months and a little bit hard work and then kaboom ¡ you're ruling a dictatorship for next 5 years . Ooho hold on a second , the politicians can do anything to win the election , anything means literally anything . Like weird statements , crime , influence people over religion and nationality and so more . Let's have a look on some infos According to a report by PRS above 75% of   MPs in parliament have graduate degrees and over 10% are matriculates. And they make some really hilarious statements that these statements can even use bollywood movies . " Taj mahal was built by traitors " - Sangeet Som , BJP MLA , UP  " Why didn't Anushka & Virat marry in India ?" - Pannalal Shakha , BJP MLA , MP  " Cancer happens because of karma in previous life "- Himanta Biswa Sharma , Health minister , Assam 

Unemployment in India

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Just like rape , water crisis , economic breakdown - unemployment is a major and complex problem in India and needs an immediate solution . According to NSSO - unemployment rate is at it's highest mark in in four decades . What is NSSO ? NSSO means National Sample Survey Office . It's a huge department in the ministry of statistics . Which collects data and occurs large scale survey in whole India on labours and jobs . NSSO is a government employed department so it can be manipulated by government for political reasons . To prevent this situation a new independent body was created in 2005 called NSC ( National Statistical Commission ) . Which verifies every data giver by NSSO . How NSC is in danger ? 2017-2018's data of unemployment was not officially released for common people . But thanks to the journalist of business standards Shomesh Jha the data was revealed . As NSC in an independent body there is a team of 7 members but 3 posts are vacant , 2 people res

Economic Condition of India

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Indian economy is a mixed economy and it directly refers to the importance of GDP growth . What is GDP ? Gross domestic product ( GDP ) basically measures the percentage of a nation's economic activity . Things needed to calculate GDP 1 - Consumption of population 2 - Investment on companies 3 - Government spendings 4 - Net exports Histo ry of GDP growth rate July 2016 - 8.7% ( highest of this govt ) Jan 2017 - 7.4 % + 6.1% July 2017 - 6%+ 6.8% Jan 2018 - 7.7%+7.7% July 2018 - 8%+7% Jan 2019 - 6.6%+5.8% July 2019 - 5% ( lowest till now ) And some economists says that it's the worst condition since 2012's . Reasons of this condit ion * Since so many economists said that demonetization had effected our economy , commercial sectors very heavily . Even so many foreign inverters kept their investments low . Our ex PM and an economist Dr. Manmohan singh forecasted that the demonetization could decrease GDP by 2% and it actually happened . **   In rece