India’s System
Despite the surge of democratic and economic growth, India is home to one of the largest oppressed populations in the world. The poor and Untouchables of India are treated as outcasts by a society based upon a 3,000 year- old caste system. Often victimized without consequences and relegated to the lowliest of jobs – the poor are unable to earn a livable wage.
The Facts
According to World Bank estimates, 456 million people — just over 40 percent of India’s population of 1.2 billion — now live on less than $1.25 per day, a sum recognized as the international poverty line.
Almost half of India’s children are malnourished; thousands die every day from diarrhea; hundreds of millions have no access to proper sanitation and clean drinking water. These figures provide a grim counterpoint to the glitzy high-rises and designer shopping malls that have sprung up throughout the country’s major cities.
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