Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while addressing the United Nations General Assembly, said that ‘a fast-growing India can expand the boundaries of global economy. Despite global financial crunch, India is growing at close to 8 per cent’. What does it mean to aam admi in India, at a time when corruption has crept into the very veins of our country, weakening its socio-political fabric? A majority of people do not know, and even do not want to know, what the GDP and economic growth is. Having seen the usual queue of beggars at Delhi’s historical Jama Masjid and child labour at India Gate, the grade card of 8 per cent GDP growth holds little or no relevance.
Shafaque Alam
New Delhi