What is important?

["Sam Garg" <gargsam@hotmail.com>]

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I agree that population is not a problem.  I think we need to identify
all
the problems and prioritize them before a plan can be formulated.  No
plan
can be all things to all people/ problems at the same time.

To me, the number one social issue in India is that of sanitation -
whether
at the private household, local, or national level.  Sanitation is a
worthy
goal in of itself but will have a multiplier effect on the economy as
well.


Sanjay Garg

>From: Sanjeev Sabhlok <sanjeev@sabhlokcity.com>
>Reply-To: debate@indiapolicy.org
>To: debate@indiapolicy.org
>Subject: Re: What is important?
>Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:27:39 -0800 (PST)
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>population is NOT a problem, but an opportunity. pl. see my posting and

>those of Sauvik, Barun, etc. in the past. + a write up on population on

>IPI's publication page.
>
>Sanjeev
>
>At 11:59 AM 1/11/01 -0800, "Sanjai Kukreti" <skukreti@home.com> wrote:
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> >Krishnan Kandasamy <nkandasamy@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >To: <debate@indiapolicy.org>
> >Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 1:23 AM
> >Subject: Re: What is important?
> >> Indeed we have forgotten what is important for India and are
arguing
> >> endlessly over Ram Temples, secularism etc., Are we pretending that

> >> India
> >> has no other problems or are we just blind?
> >>
> >> Some of the other Challenges that India faces
> >>
> >> 1)Environmental Degradation
> >> 2)Illiteracy
> >> 3)AIDS
> >>
> >> Lets use our energy from on to look for meaningful solution to
these
> >> problems than to continue with our pretensions.
> >
> >
> >I think that overpopulation is the prime cause of environmental
>degradation,
> >and is likewise associated with the other 2 items.
> >
> >India needs to implement a strict 2-child policy, and ways must be
>found to
> >counter the populist rhetoric of the Left, which seeks to diminish
>personal
> >accountability and responsability towards this.
> >
> >Populist rhetoric is a bad thing. It gains votes in the short run,
but
>it
> >destroys society and its surroundings in the long run. This is what
we
>are
> >seeing in India.



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