The awful poverty and insecurity of many workers in India is difficult to
imagine, but this horror story pinpoints one particularly tragic element of
their dire existence. "An estimated 6,000 bodies are found on India's vital rail
tracks every year, and 12 are found in every day on Mumbai's celebrated commuter
lines alone. Most of them are believed to be passengers who have fallen from
overcrowded trains or local residents taking shortcuts across the tracks.
Officials believe several thousand bodies are dumped on railway tracks by
relatives seeking compensation." (Daily Telegraph, 17 April) This is the same
India that can boast of an increase in its numbers of millionaires and even
billionaires. RD
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According to the Congress Rajya Sabha MP, the economic inequality has been growing at a breakneck speed in the liberalisation era. “Rich are growing at a 7000-8000 per cent but the poor have been stagnating at 0.68 per cent.”
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