Poverty in Village and Per Capta Income of India.

I live in Delhi and read two business papers and read business magazine and article on Internet. As per statistic, in 2003-04 India per capta income is about 16000 in a year.

For a country like India it looks good and shows that country is prospering.

But when I visited a village in Bihar situation was quite worse. Till one month back this village (Akouna) was deprived of electricity. Once Power Grid installed transformer to supply electricity, it asked one time fee of Rs 800 as connection charge and monthly Rs 75. Only two family in the entire village was capable to pay Rs 800.

Families were not able arrange even Rs 800 for connection. Some families were saying that even if we pay Rs 800 in beginning, how could we able to pay monthly Rs 75 every month.

As they need to pay at least Rs 200 to 300 on phone bill which includes mobile if they have or phone bill in Telephone Booth. In addition to phone bill this will be extra burden.

Now people are looking to stop mobile and phone use.

Even though support price of all crops has increased these farmers are selling their crops to near shopkeepers at half price.

Irony is that no government program, subsidies or reservation helped any family in any way. Lastly people migrated to Delhi and other parts of India to support their livelihood. Only older population are left in villages.

I am not able to find a relation between Per capta income of India and village people.