This document summarizes several concerning statistics about issues facing Indians such as low breastfeeding rates, gaps in education, lack of skills training, high suicide rates, preventable blindness, alcohol and tobacco use. It notes that 49% of Indian women are against breastfeeding, over 1 million Indians are blind but only 20,000 donate eyes annually, and smoking causes over 51 million deaths worldwide each year. The purpose is to raise awareness of problems Indians may face in the future if issues are not addressed.

1. WAKE UP CALL
TO THE FUTURE INDIANS
It may be shocking….BUT let us be aware….and beware…! This is
meant for every Indian…!
(Statistics expressed in this Presentation may not be accurate and the
purpose is to sensitize)
By
Thought Leader Dr.Bala, CEO www.visionunlimited.in
9840027810

2. BREAST FEEDING
• 49% of the Indian Women are against breast feeding
• 72% of the working women do not like to do breast
feeding
• 31% are not aware of the negative impacts of not
doing the breast feeding
• If a child given breast milk he becomes a genius
when he is 10 years old as per research done in
Australia
• In another research 56% of women who have done
one month of breast feeding to their kids and 27% of
the women who have never done are diabetic.
• Matt O‟Conner (in London) did an experiment of
preparing a cup of ice cream using mother‟s milk
(paying INR 1125 for 10 ounce) and sold a cup of ice
cream for INR 1000/- to propagate the significance
and importance of breast feeding as published in one
of the National Daily recently.
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3. EDUCATION TODAY IN OUR COUNTRY
• 75000 schools – do not have class rooms. 900 schools –
there is no teacher available
• There is a special school for child labor (near Erode,
Tamilnadu) which has 25 students ranging from 1 to 6 th
class BUT with one Teacher
• „Educated‟ in India as per details available it was 73.45%
in 2001 and it was 80.33% in 2011 ( out of which 86.81%
are men and 73.86% are women)
• As per details available, in 2010 nearly 22 crores
children are school going. 1.3 crores children (in the age
group of 6 to 14) do not go to school at all.
• On an average out of 100 students 40 go to 5 th standard,
23 go to 8th standard, and 14 only go to 10 th standard.
Only 6% in the age group of 17-24 go to college for
higher education.
• Nearly 1.27 crores of children are child-laborers –
especially from the Northern part of India.
• Every year on June 12 (World child labor opposing day)
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4. SKILL GAP IN THE COUNTRY – A BIG WORRY
• As per reliable facts and information available around 10 crores
Diploma Holders are required in the industry by 2016.
• Is the Technical Institutions updated? Are the outgoing talents
capable of getting employed?!
• India has the task of skilling 50 crores people by 2022
(according to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, GOI) and
according to the National Council for Skill Development. What
steps can be taken to meet this agenda and the action plan
could include the following
• Agriculture must be strengthened by new technology
• Focus on „non-conventional energy‟ is to focused simultaneously
• R & D in industries to include people from Institutions
• Innovation, new technology, new thinking of the industry to be
updated by the Institutions by close networking (alumnus could
help in this mission)
• Frequent guest lectures/seminars to be arranged at the national
level and relevant information to be published in magazines/net
etc. for people to be aware.
• India as a country – cannot afford to import finished products –
and hence the manufacturing industry cannot be ignored.
• We need fitters, plumbers, carpenters, crane operators, welders
and other technicians in huge numbers in the immediate future.
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5. INTOLERANT SOCIETY
• Lots of young children commit suicide today due to
various emotional reasons in our country.
• Nega, 11 years for being denied by her parents to
participate in an dance competition.
• Sushanth, 13 years for poor performance in education
• Bhajan, a medical student, 20 years old – because of
arrears in 2 subjects
• For a fight with sibling (choosing a channel in TV) a 14
year old girl in TN.
• Teacher being stabbed in Chennai
• Doctor being stabbed in TN
• Father killing her own daughter for an affair that he did
not approve
• Son killing his father for not giving pocket money…
• 56% of the suicides happen during the month of March
to July. Around 16 youngsters commit suicide on an
average totaling to 6000 p.a.
• In India every 90 minutes a teenage child attempts
suicide. Japan is leading in the act of suicide.
• Where are we heading…?
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6. „BLIND‟ AS A PROBLEM
• October 10 th people celebrate “Vision day”
• 110 lakhs of people out of 120 crores in India are blind
• In TN alone it is 3.5 lakhs people are blind
• 62369 people die on an average in a day in India
• If all of them donate „eyes‟ within 9 days we can make
every blind person of this country see this „beautiful‟
World.
• Only 20000 people donate eyes every year in India
• How do we SEE this….?
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7. CONSUMING LIQUOR
• On 12th Feb 2011 WHO released a study and as per
that 25 lakhs of people die all over the world due to
consuming liquor
• Men in the age group of 15 to 59 die – mainly due to
this bad habit
• In India 6.25 crores of people drink ( almost 1 out of 6)
• 40% the road accidents occur only due to drink and
drive
• Common Wealth report says 1 out of 8 dying every day
is due to liquor consumption
• A research done before some 5 years ago reveals that
every Indian liquor addict consumes 22.25 liters in a
year on an average ( valuing Rs. 1.70 lakhs that he
spends)
• Thelunganur ( a village near Salem) has a population of
300 families and for over 100 years no one drinks
there.
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8. SMOKING AS A HABIT
• 51 lakhs of people die in the world only due to smoking. It
could go up to 80 lakhs by 2030.
• 80% the estimated 100 crores of people who smoke
around the world are in the middle income group
• 40% of Cancer happens due to consumption of Tobacco.
• Over 6 lakhs people die in the world because of smoking
by others and out of which 1.65 are children. 3.7 lakhs
people suffer heart disease due to smoking by others
around us out of which 2.81 lakhs are women.
• 1.65 lakhs of people die due to respiratory problems.
Around 36900 die due to Asthma and 21900 because of
cancer in lungs
• 57% of the Indian population have smoking habit out of
which 11% are women. 32% of them are in the age group
of 15 to 49.
• There is no FIRE without Smoke.
• Recently Actor Deepika Padukone refused to act a scene
of smoking (Film : Dam maro dam)
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