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Supernag Junior Artist Username: Supernag Post Number: 190 Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 204.152.215.116 Rating: N/A |
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?sid=aErNiP_V4RLc&pid=2060 1109 March 4 (Bloomberg) -- Until May 2007, Meera Devi rose before dawn each day and walked a half mile to a vegetable patch outside the village of Kachpura to find a secluded place. Dodging leering men and stick-wielding farmers and avoiding spots that her neighbors had soiled, the mother of three pulled up her sari and defecated with the Taj Mahal in plain view. With that act, she added to the estimated 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. Devi looks back on her routine with pain and embarrassment. “As a woman, I would have to check where the males were going to the toilet and then go in a different direction,” says Devi, 37, standing outside her one-room mud-brick home. “We used to avoid the daytimes, but if we were really pressured, we would have to go any time of the day, even if it was raining. During the harvest season, people would have sticks in the fields. If somebody had to go, people would beat them up or chase them.” In the shadow of its new suburbs, torrid growth and 300- million-plus-strong middle class, India is struggling with a sanitation emergency. From the stream in Devi’s village to the nation’s holiest river, the Ganges, 75 percent of the country’s surface water is contaminated by human and agricultural waste and industrial effluent. Everyone in Indian cities is at risk of consuming human feces, if they’re not already, the Ministry of Urban Development concluded in September. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW | ||
Hail_the_labour Side Hero Username: Hail_the_labour Post Number: 2023 Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 75.185.82.44 Rating: N/A |
after Independence..60 years ayina... INKAA huge BPL ante... very bad....for the country..very bad..... | ||
Getafix Side Hero Username: Getafix Post Number: 6027 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 159.127.66.112 Rating: N/A |
mana desam lo food ki access lenivallu matrame poor ani kaadu anedi health and education access leni vallanu kuda BPL numbers lo lekkestharu.. The news item says there are 2 other reports which claimed poverty at much higher rates but govt acknowledged tendulkars report only. | ||
Nippu Side Hero Username: Nippu Post Number: 2360 Registered: 12-2008 Posted From: 24.148.3.170 Rating: N/A |
congress govts lo vunna problem , black markets control lo vuntayyi ee food products . | ||
Movieanalyst Side Hero Username: Movieanalyst Post Number: 2616 Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 122.164.191.209 Rating: N/A |
cost of living chala perigipothundi India lo.... | ||
Methhanithodugu Side Hero Username: Methhanithodugu Post Number: 3354 Registered: 12-2008 Posted From: 59.93.83.138 Rating: N/A |
Aam Aadmi + India Shining = 2/3 of the Cup Full  Methhani-thodugu- SOFTWEAR ~ SOFTWARE | ||
Film_fan Hero Username: Film_fan Post Number: 11536 Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.151.126.226 Rating: N/A |
sad.... that is a very high percentage A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. -- Mitch Radcliffe | ||
Naatugaadu Junior Artist Username: Naatugaadu Post Number: 464 Registered: 03-2010 Posted From: 122.169.218.104 Rating: N/A |
Uncertainty over the number of people who will benefit from the proposed food security law has been lifted. The Planning Commission has accepted the Tendulkar Committee report which holds 37 per cent of people in India below the poverty line, an increase of 10 per cent. 10 percent pergatamendi raa naayaanaa? Prasthanaam lo cheppinattu 'Dorikonodiki dorikinantha Dochukune-ism' lo vunnaam..... tho.....  Evadu Post cheyyalani anukunte DB block ayipoddo aade Naatugaadu... Nene.... |