Can we expect a civilized society in India if 80% of Indians are living under ##Question_Title##.5 USD per day?

Question

As per BBC, 80% of the Indians live on 20 rupees a day.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6946800.stm

20.00 INR = $0.511247 USD as per http://www.xe.com

Answer 1

ask to yourself....and what does this bbc got to do anything with Indian civilization? it don't even know about the current stock exchange figures of its own country.

Just highlighting decades old news on its channel time n again.

Answer 2

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Whenever this person visitis the category of Indian tourism the answer to each question is either:

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For answers to the questions in sub-categories in India, the answer would be:

“www.<state>tourism.com” or "www.indiarail.com" etc

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Answer 3

'Civilized' society ,I feel, has only a limited relavence to what one earns for livelihood. In rural areas people earn much less and they are very polite , civil and helpful without expectations and have certain values.This is in marked constrast to urban areas.

Tolerence, contentment , cultural values contribute to a large extent to a civilized society rather than the earnings. This is proved in our own India wherein the society was comparatively much more civilized decades back than what it is now .

Answer 4

Did not understand how you relate civilization with per day avarage spending.

I have seen millionairs spitting "paan" on the streets of metro cities, have seen the most clean tribal village in Jharkhand.

I am well travelled to US, UK, China and South East Asia. Even in the context of developed country I couldn't relate your  civilized society.

Today's Gas price in State of CA is $3.23/galon, that makes Rs.24 a litter. Do they spend more for gas compared to me spending Rs.52 a litter (with 30% tax paid money, so I need to earn Rs.67.6 to buy a litter of gas)?

Civilized socity is a system where the stakeholder should be both private and public and make it happen. If we all work towards that, it hardly matters how much an avarage Indian spends per day.

Answer 5

India will never become civilized, because its population is constantly getting bigger. I think BBC has gotten the data wrong, but India still has like 25% of its population in poverty.

Answer 6

That's wrong!

I am an average spending person from Kerala State.

Few of my daily Expenses (calculated average/day)

Food Rs 100

Petrol Rs 150

Phone Rs 100

House Rent Rs 100 (i stay at my own place, rough figure)

So you need 10$ per day

Regards

William S.Paul

Executive

Kerala Travel Port Magazine

Cochin, Kerala.

India