70% of indians are still shitting in the streets and their holy ganges.
No just fucking no.
No just fucking no.
I am from India, and I can say that the culture of public defecation is slowly changing. People are building toilets near their houses and are defecating in the open with less frequency. And this open defecation issue is present in a lot of the third world nations, and India is not an exception. But the mentality never change. Indians want salary for doing hardly any work. Until this attitude changes, India is never going to pose a challenge to China.
That is really good to hear.
I still have some numbers from 2013 or so. And i.e. the pollution of the ganges with human fecals was like 100000 times the allowed standard for drinking and bathing.
India definietly needs to get some basic healthcare and sanitation standard before they can improve and go the way of china.
Similiar to china they have a huge population and can use them to export human labor while accumulating wealth to industrialize their nation.
The situation in India is different from that in China. Unlike the case in China, only a small part of the Indian population is engaged in productive activity. This is clear from the fact that just 2% of the Indian population is paying income tax. So here, 2% of the population is subsidizing the remaining 98%. The burden on this 2% is huge and the system can collapse at anytime.
