The world largest functioning Democracy.
Size: One of every six people on earth lives in India. India will soon be the world’s most
popular nation.
GOSPEL: The Gospel had not reached Majar Part of the Area.
Inadequate Sanitation: TB,HIV, and AIDS in spreading. There are more cases of Tuberculosis in the world today them at any time in the past.
- Blindness both in the young and the old.
- Illiteracy is at its peak. India is the most illiterate country in the world.
- Alcoholism is a birth right for a person in this Area.
- Lepracy.
- Physical Disability and Mental retardation.
The Context - The Dalit Community
The Dalit community are discriminated against and deprived of any social privileges
in India. They are deemed to be ‘educationally backward’, socially discriminated,
economically deprived, politically powerless and neglected. In the main, they don’t
have any access to resource or welfare support from Government or any other
agency. On December 27, 2006 Manmohan Singh became the first sitting Indian
Prime Minister to openly acknowledge the parallel between the practice of
“untouchability” and the crime of apartheid. Singh described “untouchability” as a
“blot on humanity” adding that “even after 60 years of constitutional and legal
protection and state support, there is still social discrimination against Dalits in many
parts of our country.”
“Prime Minister Singh has rightly compared ‘untouchability’ to apartheid, and
stressed that the Indian government can no longer deny its collusion in maintaining a
system of entrenched social and economic segregation.”
Dalits endure segregation in housing, schools, and access to public services. They
are denied access to land, forced to work in degrading conditions, and routinely
abused at the hands of the Police and upper-caste community members who enjoy
the state’s protection. Dalits also suffer routine violations of their right to life and
security of person through state-sponsored or-sanctioned acts of violence, including,
SOCIAL AND HEALTH ISSUES:
Cancer, Cardio, vascular Disease, Diabetes, Ageing population Tuberculosis and sexually Transmitted Diseases, Back of food and clothing . Lack of medicines and health centers are the main draw backs in the Area, child marriages, Superstitious belies still exist in this religion.
