The Guide - The Greater comom good-- Trust me. Story is here.

Sardar Sarovar Dam

	Introduction
	Why Did I laugh
	And what a story it is.
	50 million people
	Trust me. Story is here.
	Certainly India has progressed: But most of its people haven't.
	There is hole in the flag that needs mending
	Why are they so keen?

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Trust me story. Story is here.

It's true that India has progressed. It's true that in 1947, when
Colonialism formally ended, India was food deficit. In 1950 we produced 51 million tonnes of food grain. Today we produce close to 200 million tonnes.

It's true that in 1995 the state granaries were overflowing with 30 million tonnes of unsold grain. It's also true that at the same time, 40 per cent of India's population-more than 350 million people-were living below the poverty line. That's more than the country's population in 1947.

Indians are too poor to buy the food their country produces. Indians are being forced to grow the kinds of food they can't afford to eat themselves. Look at what happened in Kalahandi district in western Orissa, best known for its starvation deaths. In the drought of 1996, people died of starvation (16 according to the state, over a 100 according to the press). Yet that same year rice production in Kalahandi was higher than the national average! Rice was exported from Kalahandi to the Centre.

Certainly India has progressed