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#1 ILLITERACY - SOLUTION(S) TO INDIA'S PROBLEMS - An NRI's Perspective - 1st Post
VipinMantraVipinMantra / Blog / 2 yrs ago / 5AA+A++
Despite of growing at a decent rate for the past few years, India, the next superpower of the world has still got enormous number of problems to tackle. Government as usual claims that they are trying to iron out all the issues, but still, the people of India come across the loopholes every now and then. Look at this from the world's perspective; it gives a bad image to the nation and it’s an unending matter of shame for us. As an Indian I feel that not only the government but I also have got a big responsibility to start thinking about - how these problems can be resolved and how India can get a good position & respect in the world, which it deserves for last few centuries.

I have a simple approach to this complex issue - just list all the big problems down, then start jotting down the solutions corresponding to them and start talking about / working on them. Not only I would start working on the solutions but I will urge my friends and family members to do the same. And I am sure that the readers of this post would also agree with my intent. The rationale behind starting this series of posts is that if you know your problem(s) well and start finding solutions dedicatedly, it will be just a matter of time that they are resolved. My firm belief is that once you start improving things in and around you it spreads to other people / circles/ cities and gets transformed into a revolution. This is the first step from an Indian to contribute to the nation. And I am confident that this would spread, like the recent revolutions....may be over a period of time.

Here is a list of few of the ever growing problems which India has been facing:

Illiteracy
Corruption
Population
Water Shortage
Crime
Terrorism
Poverty
Pollution
Deforestation
I will take one problem at a time and cover it sequentially in the upcoming posts of

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