1. 71% or 742 million people are below 35 years of age. Indians are young
2. 29 million people are born every year
3. 94% drop out rate of children between kindergarten and 10+2
4. 6%, which is our so called educated youth, go in for a regular college degree which may not be very relevant in today's context for employment generation
5. 73% of all graduates from colleges are Arts graduates
6. While 95% of the world youth between 15 to 35 years of age learn a vocation, a skill or a trade, with a choice of 3000 vocational education & training programs, we in India have only identified about 171 trades so far after 57 years of Independence and hardly 2% of the population goes in for formal VET training!
7. We can get engineers in India but no carpenters, plumbers, drivers and other skilled personnel as per international standards! I. T. is the only exception
8. I.T. is only 1.5% of the world GDP. India's present share is about 3%. We need to concentrate on the balance 97% of the Economy & Enterprise and make it world class, for rapid economic growth and employment generation
9. 300 million unemployed* and only 45 million have actually registered with employment offices with little or no hope of getting employment (our estimates)*
10. Of all new employment generated, 1% are Government jobs, 2% are in the 'Organized sector' and the balance 97% in the 'Unorganized sector'
11. Out of our 409 million workforce, 93.5% work in the unorganized sector and about 6.5% in the organized sector
12. 1.7% of the entire population, viz. 18 million people work for the Central & State Government; another 9 million work in the 'private organized sector', total 2.6%
13. All the Labour Laws are made to protect, at any cost, the above 2.6% of the Indian population. Article 311 of the Indian constitution needs revision since it over protects employees of the Government even at a cost to the Nation
14. While MP's, MLA's and Municipal Councilors and the village Panchayats, can only be elected for a maximum of 5 years, the officials, babus, and government employees enjoy life long benefits of employment, in spite of performance
15. 650 million illiterate people, based on the international definition of the 3R's (reading, writing and arithmetic, education up to primary level)
16. The Indian definition of literacy, "If you can write your name, you are literate"; nobody has seriously ever challenged this definition!
17. 300 million live below the Government of India's definition of Poverty Line of Rs.10 per day! (based on being able to buy enough rice and wheat from the Public Distribution System / Ration Shops, which has food value of 2200 K Cal)
18. Nobody has ever challenged this definition of 'Poverty Line'. How can one expect people to live with a few kilos of raw uncooked wheat or rice? As human beings don't we need more? How about one set of clothes to cover our bodies, one set of chappals for our feet, some vegetables, milk and fruit, in our diet? How will we cook without any energy and fuel?
19. 450 million* live below the poverty line definition of the World Bank's old definition of @ US$ 1 per day per person, or US$ 365 per year. 700 million* people below the poverty line definition of the World Bank's new definition of @ US$ 2 per day per person, or US$ 730 per year. (our estimates)*
20. Average GDP of an Indian is about US$ 495 per year per person (1.06 billion people and a GDP of US$ 525 billion)
21. India has only 1.35% of the World GDP and is 17% of the world population. Demands are high but buying power is low. Hence we will need to increase our export related activities by 10 times, as the foreign markets are 75 times bigger than the Indian market. Our share of world markets or foreign trade is 0.8%, down from 33% 1000 years ago, down from 27% when the British landed in India and down from 3% in 1947.
22. Only 5% of Indians understand English, yet most of the websites of the Government of India, State Governments and Public Institutions are in English!
23. While English is a language used in countries which account for about 40% of the world GDP, viz., USA + UK + old British Colonies, yet in India while we talk of Globalization, we are not serious to learn the other languages of the world, eg., Japanese, German etc, unlike the Chinese youth who are doing otherwise
24. India is probably at the bottom of the heap, as far as the human development index is concerned
25. Democracy is to the people, for the people, by the people. If we have to succeed the Citizen has to get involved and participate in Governance
26. We have 17 official languages, unlike other countries, 4000 dialects, all the religions of the world, and because of low human and economic development, emphasis on SC, ST, Dalits, caste, religion, sect, etc.

Under the above circumstances how can we run an efficient country with Good Governance and Effective Administration?

We need to first put "Our House in Order", as mentioned in our 32 page booklet, Transforming India. The rest will fall in place.

The only Constant in Life is CHANGE!

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