Let’s take this opportunity to be absolutely predictable in expressing our opinion about India. Let’s talk about rampant corruption. Let’s talk about violation of human rights. Let’s blame our spineless foreign policy. Let’s go out of our way in being absolutely cynical towards the state of India. My only hope is that you do all this to get it out of your system and are then available to rationally appraise the current situation of your country.
We need to see the good that’s happening in India just for the sake of fairness if nothing more moral.
All the massive leaps that have been accomplished in the recent past have become possible because of upheavals in education – both the reach and the quality.
The manpower availability has registered a spike not only because of the growing population but also because of better medical facilities.
Take for instance the Mobilizing Health initiative (http://mobilizinghealth.org/). The realization that cell phone towers have arrived in remote India before medical practitioners and infrastructure must have spawned this idea. Doctors can now make prescriptions over SMS and save lives.
Literate members of the community have been taught how to write SMS in an appropriate form to elicit a quick response from doctors. Many NGO and social communities has an initiative in place to ensure betterment of rural health standards
It is such initiatives that give us hope in the future and serve as markers of the awareness that, though, achieved in small measures is already having visible results.
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