Well first of all, what ever you said in your post is true to a great extent, and every Indian here knows it far better than you or anyone else in this forum....... We may not agree here,we may fight it with every available resources, the simple reason for that is our "EGO"....... every such thread in this forum normally end up being a troll fest with chest thumping by others and turning it to a measuring contest.......
Now This is another grave problem I have traveled almost across India barring few states and the entire north east.... have also traveled in 6 countries, and i understand how serious this issue is....But things are changing, and changing very fast...... There was never an instance where govt has taken it this serious, even the PM taken it very seriously.... You could see the number of toilets build in last financial year and the kind of budget allocated to this issue in yesterday's budget..... Some how this littering is in our culture (or say in our way of our life)...... The entire singapore if you liter screwed, but go to little india and do what ever you want, no one will touch you
, the world also acknowledge this.... Lot has been changed in this regard, and it will take time to come to the standards of developed nations.......Acknowledging this issue is the first step and i am glad that we have acknowledged it, we shall resolve this issue......
Well this is another issue, but when compared to the first one, there has been lot of improvement on this parameters..... The highways are built across and roads are widened.... Flyovers are built...... More over this problem can be resolved much easily when compared..... All you need is money and planning...... With economy growing i am sure this will be resolved.......Now you speak about railways, True there is already an issue, and govt has noticed it, that is why there was no new train in this year budget and they are trying to improve the productivity of the railway...... Lot more need to be done on improving infrastructure, and that is also addressed in this year budget......Indian Railway is the most cheapest transport system in the world...... A passenger train (fast passenger) journey of 50 km may cost you close to 12 rupee (20 cents).... If the travel fare is low that means the income for development is also low...... It is a tricky scenario govt faces, if you increase the passenger fare there will huge hue and cry and the poor will get affected..... That is where the govt try to raise fund thru other sources, Indian Railway is soo huge that it will take decades to see a change in infra...... Yes we do buy weapons from them, and we buy lot of them..... Probably we are the only country in the world which shares boundaries with 2 nuclear weapon states and maintain a strained relation with them......
Now i agree we have a problem with our govt and bureaucracy...... Yes most of them are corrupted...... Well it will take time to eradicated corruption, it is one of the causes for the above 2 problems you mentioned..... We are making laws and attempts but at times the guys who are supposed to check the corruption are corrupt themselves..... Hope to see this coming down in days..... The new govt seems to be less corrupt compared to earlier one..... and most probably there will be lot of changes in this aspect too.....
Now you say it takes ages to get a sim connection, yes it takes..... and no one will here complain because we know that is needed, especially the kind of security thread India faces (both externally internally) we do not mind going thru this obstacles if it helps us to live safe......well when it comes to medical care, India is divided in to 3 sections...... 1) the poor who depends on govt hospitals, and god save them because of the state of those hospitals..... But surprisingly the treatments are way better there compared to the pvt hospitals...... 2) Middle class who depends on hospitals which are private, and they provide you better treatment at a higher cost 3) Rich who goes to hightech hospitals for even for a cold....It is not that we care, most of them think this is ok, or we use our famous lines "Chaltha hein" .....
It is a big country which has different problem..... In your post you mentioned "Kerala"..... I happened to be from that state, true that kerala is much better when compared on the aspects you mentioned, but we face far greater issues than others in certain sectors, Infra for example, probably we might have the narrowest national highway across country......
I always felt Accepting a problem is job half done......... and I have no shame in accepting the problems you mentioned.......