Who said ? Who said our country is not great ? Who said our country does not shine? Who said our country is poor? Who said our country is weak? Look at the incredibles: 34% of all NASA’s employees are Indians. India ranks third in investments in Britain, next only to US and Japan. 8000 Indians teach in US Universities There are more Indians in the UAE than number of local Arabs. Indians own 21,000 of 53,000 Hotels / Motels in the US. 25% of Medical work force in Britain are Indians IIT and IIM alumni control $ 100 Million Dollars 15.5 % of Silicon Valley Projects are started by the Indians The richest man in Britain is Indian President of Singapore is Indian Governor General of Newzealand is Indian President of Mauritius is Indian 9% of Malaysian population are Indians India imports $ 30 Billion worth arms Anand Mahendra donated $ 10 Million to Harvard University Ratan Tata donated a bigger $ 50 Million Anand Mahendra Donated 10 million US Dollars to the Harvard University After knowing the above Ratan Tata donated 50 Million US Dollars to Harvard University. Many of our Universities in the Country are starting for resources. Anand Mahendra Ratan Tata Do you know who this is? Shera – the logo of Common Wealth Games - 2010 You know what followed Common Wealth Games after Rs. 70,000 crores were spent This is Stumpy Logo for IPL – 2011 Hundreds of crores spent in buying players. Many thousands of crores are thrown away in betting. People below poverty line suffer Hunger, Disease and Helplessness in five of world’s population lives on less than $ 1 a day One in three goes hungry every night. One One rain song sequence in Hindi movie Dabaang wasted 1,80,000 lakh ltrs of purified water A flood scene in Tum Mile used 36,00,000 lakh ltrs My Name is Khan used 24,00,000 lakh ltrs. De Dhana Dhan wasted 84,00,000 lakh ltrs. While millions of rural population don’t have decent potable water. Many more millions have to walk long distances to fetch murky water. James Cameroon used only 4,50,000 lts. of water for filming the entire movie - Titanic But these are the facts: But the fact is 37% of our Indians live below poverty line. 46% do not have three square meals a day. 27% children are born under weight Our IMR is still at 52 per 1000 live births 75 under 5 children die per every 1000 Our MMR is still at an unacceptable 254 for every one lakh deliveries. 283 people for every one lakh suffer from TB Still 18% don’t have access to safe drinking water and 51% to toilets 8 Indian States are poorer than 26 African Countries Bihar, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, MP, Orrissa, Rajasthan, UP & West Bengal MP & Congo show identical poverty lines India ranks 63rd in the new poverty index, after Togo and before Haiti. Loss to national economy due to a 12 hr bundh is Rs.13,000 crores. Parameter MDG target for 2015 Current Status Share of Government Budget (2008-11) 37% BPL 10.4% Poverty 18.5% BPL population Hunger 27% children under weight 46% Primary Education 100% 96% 2.2 Gender Parity Index should be one in primary & one in secondary 0.94 in primary 0.82 in secondary 3.4 Under 5 child mortality 42 deaths per 1000 live births 75 0.2 MMR 109 deaths per lakh 254 0.8 Halt Malaria, TB, etc. - TB – 283 per 1 lakh people 0.2 Safe drinking water & toilets 15% without water 35% without toilets 18% 51% 1.2 Can you pronounce this ? SCCESS Insert try ! U somewhere in between and Value of a tree is always decided by its fruits and not by leaves Mr. Gupta and Mohiuddin in Visakhapatnam showed the way Common man is willing to support value system even by giving up his work for a day Leadership more leaders – not followers Not go getters but go givers May not prepare future for youth but prepares youth for future Discipline Knows what to read than how to read Can choose between right and more right than right and wrong Creates Uses soft words and hard arguments Knows that one succeeds not because others fail – so helps others Perseverance – TITTIBHAM Knows even fire under control is useful May not share riches, but reveals to others their own Is like a seed willing to germinate Today is the tomorrow that we talked about yesterday Everyone wants to improve but very few wants to change “Yo yasmin karmani kushalah tham thasminneva niyojayeth” “Dhanikah brahmano raja Nadee vaidyasthu panchamaha” “Swagruhe poojyathe murkhaha Swagrame gramapalakaha Swadeshe poojyathe rajah Vidwan sarvathra poojyathe” “Nishanthe kaaryam chintayeth”