India

India is a constitutional republic in South Asia, with the world's second largest population, an

economy currently ranked 9th in terms of GDP(Nominal), a rapidly developing country

which yet has significant amount of poverty, and the world's largest democracy

India is a large country and has rich cultural heritage. It is the birthplace of several tribes,

religions and cultures.

Interesting facts about India.

• 1.Origin of the Name ‘India’: The origin of the name ‘India’ is derived from River Indus, which was worshiped by the Aryans and they referred the river as the Sindhu. It was later converted into ‘Hindu’ by the Persian Invaders.

• 2. Bharat: India is also called Bharat and even recognized as the official name by the Indian constitution. The term Bharat has been taken from Ancient Indian texts.

• 3. First Urban culture: The Indus Valley Civilization in India is more than 3000 years old and is considered to be the first Urban Culture in South Asia.

• 4. Religion: India is the birth place of major religions including Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism.

• 5. Independence Day: India got freedom on 15th August, 1947 and hence Independence Day is celebrated every year on this day.

• 6. Father of the Nation: Mahatma Gandhi is known as Father of Indian Nation.

How can I develop india??

• Vote - A large majority of India's urban youth are disillusioned with politics and don't vote. If you want a change, be the harbinger of that change. Don't just sit at home and complain.

• Read the newspaper (a real one, the Hindu maybe). Keep abreast with the news, know what is happening in your country and have an opinion about it.

• Stop watching only cricket and try out something else. There arethousands of athletes out there in India playing their hearts out hoping someone would sit up and take notice.

• Stop taking things for granted. You deserve better from the government you voted to power. It is your duty to point out the things you want changed.

• Don't pay bribes. Next time somebody asks you for a bribe don't pay it, however much inconvenience it is going to cause.

• Switch off all electrical appliances before you leave the house.

• Control your road rage. Don't honk too much on the roads.• Let your kids choose their lives, careers and life partners. You don't own

them. They know their dreams and aspirations better than you.• Tolerate all religions. Stop believing in the caste system.• Spend more money. Go on more holidays. You will be a happier person

and you will help the economy grow.• Do something physical. Indians are notorious for being inactive. Go out,

play, jump off an airplane, scuba dive. But do something.• Stop peeing anywhere and everywhere. The next generation is watching

and learning.• Pay your taxes on time. Help the government to help you.• Teach the less privileged. Join an NGO that teaches kids, elders or

anybody without access to schools. That is much more beneficial than dropping money into a charity box to satisfy your conscience.

• Keep your roads clean, dispose your garbage properly, stop spitting on the roads

Eradicate corruption

• Spend a few million rupees to design a very good website that has *all* the government forms used in all the government departments. The site has to be so intuitive that filling government forms should be a very simple and straightforward process. Make it very easy to get this accessible on mobile. If you do this well, you can eliminate the army of bribe seekers outside the government offices.

• Create videos and test materials to enable a prospective driver to learn the road rules in a simple, fun way. Every type of education can be made fun. Let them learn the rules, and the pass the test for *FREE* (without paying a bribe). Which Indian would not love things for free?

• Use analytics tools to analyze what the market prices of homes are. Most of the real estate black money involves understating the sale price. Once you build a strong analytics tool, it will be hard to understate price and save the tax. Same for sales tax and others. Share this data openly on the government website.

• Make credit card transactions more prevalent. Subsidize the payment technologies so much that people get incentives not to use cash. Cash transactions are the source of half the headache.

• Hinduism

• Jainism

• Buddhism

• Islamism

• christianity Incredible India

Swatch bharath

• India is under developd because of corruption

• The real goal is not Swatch Bharath. The real goal is first world status, i.e. prosperity for a vast majority of the people of India. Once you achiever that everything else follows - smart cities, bullet trains, no need for welfare schemes, toilets for all, jobs for all, make in India, Madison Square Garden - they are all connected and are all different ways of saying the same thing - we want to be the US of A! By 2019? That is called wishful thinking. Three more generations? That would be a reasonable target.

• Swatch bharat is social responsibilty.

• Cleanliness starts from us.

• It is for our safety.

• Cleanliness need not involve costliness

• Cleanliness and be healthy.

How can we promote swatch bharath?

• Acclerating progress of sanitation in rural areas.

• Sanitation facilities including toilets solid and liquid waste disposal systems and supplying safe and adequate drinking water.

What do we do??

• Organize different programmes on cleanliness and sanitation.

• Constrution of toilets in scools and public places.

• Programmes to eleminate open defecation.

• Make people aware about the health issues raised because of open defecation.

• Solid and liquid waste mangement.

• Use technology.

• Convert the garbage into usefull matrial.

• Maintain cleanliness.

• Free from corpution.

• Free from pollution.

• Keep india Clean and green.

• India should come to the stage of one ruppe=dollar.

• And take all these intiatives to rural india also.

• Pledge withus to make stick free india.