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thats what you get when you buy fancy planes and carriers but leave the population starving.
This is just sad, for a nation that spends 40 billion a year on bombs.
We've heard this again and again and the simple fact is that India spends far,FAR more on poverty alleviation projects, healthcare etc than it does on defence- one scheme (the food security bill) alone will cost $22BN or half of the Indian defence budget. India is one of the few nations on earth that is making real headway on poverty relief right now and is one of only TWO nations that will meet its UN MDGs on poverty reduction by 2015. From almost 100% poverty in 1947 to <40% today India is doing very well all- things considered. One should also look into the AADHAAR/UDAI project to see how this will change India's fight on poverty in the coming years.
It is incredibly rich coming from Pakistanis whose own govt spends 25% of their budget and >5% of their GDP on defence- India's proportions are far less (~2% of GDP). India is a larger economy so in absolute terms expenditure on defence is always going to be more and it has a larger population so in real terms the numbers living in poverty will be greater- for now. However India's poverty is decreasing whilst Pakistan's is, by all accounts, increasing. I'd be more worried about Pakistan's poverty situation than India's especially given the precarious economic conditions your nation finds itself in.
Oh and can someone tell me where India and Pakistan's respective HDI scores?