Buddha's Smile School » poverty in india http://buddhas-smile-school.org Education with Love, Care & Motivation Sun, 06 May 2012 06:38:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Poverty in India: a problem on a huge scale http://buddhas-smile-school.org/2008/12/poverty-in-india-a-problem-on-a-huge-scale/ http://buddhas-smile-school.org/2008/12/poverty-in-india-a-problem-on-a-huge-scale/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:31:50 +0000 Admin http://buddhas-smile-school.org/?p=218 December 3, 2008: World Bank estimates 456 million people — just over 40 percent of India’s population of 1.2 billion — now live on less than $1.25 per day, a sum recognised as the international poverty line.

Almost half of India’s children are malnourished. 1000 die every day from diahorrea and hundreds of millions have no access to proper sanitation. These figures provide a grim counterpoint to the glitzy high-rises and designer shopping malls that have sprung up throughout the country’s major cities.

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