There has been a rapid decline in poverty in India in recent years. Why would that have suddenly reversed? Especially as a result of space missions? According to this article the Indian space program gets a budget of about $1.5 billion per year, which isn't particularly much for a country with the 5th largest economy in the world.

[+] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There has been a rapid decline in poverty in India in recent years.

Unless you live in one of the areas where there's a lot of Muslims or lower castes, then it's been increasing

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00067-6/fulltext

The prevalence of Zero-Food in India marginally declined from 20.0% (95% CI: 19.3%–20.7%) in 1993 to 17.8% (95% CI: 17.5%–18.1%) in 2021. There were considerable differences in the trajectories of change in the prevalence of Zero-Food across states. Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, and Jammu and Kashmir experienced high increase in the prevalence of Zero-Food over this time period, while Nagaland, Odisha, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh witnessed a significant decline. In 2021, Uttar Pradesh (27.4%), Chhattisgarh (24.6%), Jharkhand (21%), Rajasthan (19.8%) and Assam (19.4%) were states with the highest prevalence of Zero-Food. As of 2021, the estimated number of Zero-Food children in India was 5,998,138, with the states of Uttar Pradesh (28.4%), Bihar (14.2%), Maharashtra (7.1%), Rajasthan (6.5%), and Madhya Pradesh (6%) accounting for nearly two-thirds of the total Zero-Food children in India. Zero-Food in 2021 was concerningly high among children aged 6–11 months (30.6%) and substantial even among children aged 18–23 months (8.5%). Overall, socioeconomically advantaged groups had lower prevalence of Zero-Food than disadvantaged groups.

Those numbers are the kids who have it so bad they go 24 hours without any food...

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

And this is the fault of the Indian space program, somehow?

Look, nobody here is saying Modi is awesome or that poverty and sectarianism doesn't suck. But jumping in to unrelated threads to rant about it is kind of annoying. Especially this copypasting of the same big block of text from the same article over and over.

[–] ToyDork@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Then go join a Lemmy community that's focused on activism. I get it, I'm absolutely furious at these numbers and how many kids are suffering, and that a democraticly-elected leader is targeting a specific ethnic group is even worse, it's just that no one tapped or clicked this topic to find anything that wasn't related to space travel.

Please, for the sake of succeeding in your cause, go post somewhere that is designed for activism like Change.org