On 15th August 2007 while we were celebrating our 60 years of freedom, lakhs and crores of Indians still remained bonded inside the vicious cycle of poverty, caste system, discrimination, illiteracy and ignorance. Even today, due to poverty a mother is forced to sell off her new born baby for food. People in some parts of India don’t have houses to live in and food to eat. After a whole day of hard work labourers and farmers don’t get two meals a day. In villages where 70% of our population lives, people do not have access to electricity, basic health care facilities and safe drinking water. Agriculture suffers from low productivity due to lack of irrigation and absence of modern techniques. In majority of areas agriculture is dependent on monsoon. If rain fails poor farmers often commit suicide due to their inability to repay the loan that they have taken from money lenders.   

Health schemes initiated by the government haven’t reached various corners of India. Basic health care is not available in the villages. Infant mortality rate is very high due to lack of immunization and unhygienic conditions. Deliveries take place under the supervision of untrained and ignorant mid-wives. People have to take treatment from semi-literate quarks and often die from simple and curable diseases like dysentery, diarrhea, cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, etc.