Man buries Son to earn a living

"India Shining", "Indian economy rising at 9-10% per annum", "India has maximum number of Dollar Billionaires in Asia", "India nowadays has maximum per capita income since India became independent in 1947". All these phrases paint a rosy picture of India which is emerging as a great economy. But in the same India, as per a TV report today on Channel "Aaj Tak", here is a man who buries his son for 16 hrs just to earn a living.

As per the TV report, a man in "Saharanpur City" in "Uttar Pradesh" state of India is showing an event (Tamasha), in which the man digs an eight feet deep big pit & then puts his 14-15 years old son "Guudu" in the pit & covers the pit with earth again. Then this man do cycling around the pit for 16 hrs during which people over there see all that event (Tamasha) & some onlookers even clap during that event.

After 16 hrs, the man again digs the pit, sends 2-3 persons inside the pit, who take out "Guudu" in the unconscious state from the pit. He is revived from unconsciousness & he again sits up, drinks water etc. After seeing all that event (Tamasha), people around there start clapping & give money to them for their entertainment.

Interestingly, it happens only 200 kms from New Delhi , capital of India. Police over there also becomes mute spectator & do not do anything. As per the "Guudu", he has done so earlier also 3 times & he does it all just to earn a living. As per him, only God knows whether he shall come alive after being buried alive but he has to do all that just to earn a living, just to fill his stomach, just to earn little money so that their daily needs get fulfilled.

Isn't it weird that a father risks his son's life just to earn a living? Is it the same "India Shining" where economy is rising at 9-10%. It is indeed bizarre!!!!!!!

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Living on less than 26 cents a day, there are 200 million such Indians

Can anyone ever dream off, two third of American population living on less than 26 cents a day? India is nowadays being projected as 'India Shining', it's economy booming, it's GDP growing at 8-9 % per annum. But how much it is benefiting the rural Indian population, below data shall reveal very much. As per one News report here is some startling data. This data is as per one report prepared by The National Sample Survey Organization.

a) More than 200 million people in rural India, lived on 12 Indian rupees
(26 cents) a day or less.
b) In India Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Chattisgarh and
Uttar Pradesh are the poorest Indian states.
c) In Orissa and Chattisgarh 55 to 57 percent of villagers lived on 12
Indian rupees (26 cents) a day.
d) 10 percent of the rural population all across India lived on just 9
Indian rupees (20 cents) a day.
e) 30 percent of poor in India's cities lived on just 19 Indian rupees
(42 cents) a day.
f) 10 percent of poor in India's cities lived on just 13 Indian
rupees (28 cents) a day.
g) In Madhya Pradesh, 47 percent of the rural population lived on
12 Indian rupees (26 cents) a day, followed by Bihar and Jharkhand,
where 46 percent were living on that amount.
h) In Uttar Pradesh, 33 percent of the rural population lived on 12
Indian rupees (26 cents) a day, while in Maharashtra, home to India's
financial hub, Mumbai, 30 percent lived on that amount.
i) In Bihar, as many as 55 percent of the urban population were living
on 19 Indian rupees (42 cents) a day, followed by Orissa with 50 percent.

Isn't these are weird statistics & show how benefits of economic boom in India are hardly reaching the rural masses.

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