Neglect Of Primary Health Care And Education In India Are Reasons For Its Backwardness

Seventy-two years ago, independent India was born. Having shaken off the yoke of the British Empire, the country embarked on what was, and remains, the world’s most radical democratic experiment. Never before had a nation with such a low per capita level of income extended universal voting rights to its citizens. World Bank in its country report for India has stated that India is already the world’s third largest economy in purchasing parity terms, and she aspires to better the lives of all its citizens and become a high-middle income country by 2030, well before the centenary of its independence.

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