Talk:Standard of living in India

hello.aaa interesting article. can a date to the photo be provided? would increase relevance to a discussion of standard of living, which by the article's own words, is constantly changing and improving. Wilgamesh 07:06, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Biased Article
Is it just me, or does this article have a 'slight' bias to it. A true encyclopedia article does not suppose to contain an opinion, simply state mere fact. The author seems to imply that the idea of "India moving to a more Western style consumer driven economy" is a DEFINITE plus for India; does that mean those who reject a materialistic lifestyle are inferior in some way? You be the judge on that.

Poverty reason for India's rank

 * http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1822829.cms
 * Seven of the top 10 happiest countries, according to the first 'World Map of Happiness', are from western democracies, while countries in Asia, known for their strong cultural values, family ties and collective identities surprisingly scored low — China (82), Japan (90) and Thailand (76).


 * While Denmark's satisfaction with life index was placed at 273.33, India's was at 180. The map, claiming to be the first to illustrate international differences in happiness, placed US at 23, UK at 41 and France at 62.
 * vkvora 06:49, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Gutter inspector's report
Why does this article not have any images on the rising middle class in India? The images make India appear like some kind of a toilet. Wikindian 15:33, 10 August 2006 (UTC)


 * This article is sick and disgusting.It is offensive to the highest degree. Why isn't there an article on the Standard of living in Haiti, or Lesotho, or Guatemala (all of which have significantly lower living standards than India). Why is India bashed here (by other Indians, no less)?Hkelkar 13:01, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't know why Wikipedia doesn't have an article on the standard of living in Lesotho. One assumes it's because no-one has gotten around to it since it is a small country.In any case, here's a link to help you get started on the article: Standard_of_living_in_Lesotho

Whilst we're on the issue, most major states (by pop.) already do have articles discussing Standard of Living: Standard_of_living_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China Standard_of_living_in_the_United_States Poverty_in_Israel Standard_of_living_in_Japan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.106.10.184 (talk) 16:24, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

There is nothing wrong with the topic, I suspect that the sensitivity of some is due to the evidence indicating a very low standard of living in India, even amongst what it is pleased to call a middle class.Royalcourtier (talk) 06:58, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

criterion for poverty
The criterion for poverty is 211.30 Rs for Rural India, Per month. I was surprised to read that, How can anybody manage for Rs 200 per month?

That should be atleast Rs 900 per month don't you think so? --219.91.198.10 10:33, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

What is the average salary of a middle-class Indian?
Does anyone know what is the average salary (in U.S. dollar) of a middle-class Indian in India now? Please provide some sources or a link. Thanks. 72.140.11.75 (talk) 02:14, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

India-China comparison
Why the constant comparison between India and China throughout this article? What does it aim to prove / clarify? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.95.66.28 (talk) 09:58, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

I totally agree. India is a sovereign nation, not a scale to measure China's progress, hence I have removed the comparisons to the PRC. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Varoonk5 (talk • contribs) 22:48, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

China is a major economy...Why wouldn't you compare India to it and other major economies? China is a particularly interesting comparison because their economy is also on a recent upswing. I think the aim is to have some point of reference. The comparison is, in itself, useful.

Update of India Picture
Hi, Great work with the nice statistical picture of India. However, I have a feeling that the data used in this picture is quite old and out of date. Lot of things have changed since then for example, India's HDI for year 2005 is 0.619 Karnataka's HDI is released, Tamil Nadu has HDI of 0.736 in year 2006. I would go ahead and remove the picture from the article if it is not updated. Docku (talk) 02:18, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Standard of living in India
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Standard of living in India's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "creaking": From Education in India:  From Transport in India: A special report on India: Creaking, groaning: Infrastructure is India’s biggest handicap Dec 11th 2008 The Economist] From Water supply and sanitation in India:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 00:50, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

I found an article on causes of poverty in Bihar.
 * Poverty In Bihar
 * T N Ninan: Why Bihar is poor

--Swaminworld (talk) 17:32, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

badly written
Just a rando visitor from that depths of the internet here. Wanted to point out that this article is badly written as is. The English is shoddy, with numerous subject/verb agreement problems and odd choices of words. Hopefully a wiki Editor with some interest and time can improve it. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.252.78.81 (talk) 17:28, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Re: Badly Written
I totally agree. Speaking as a native speaker of American English who has some exposure to Indian English, the article is atrociously written. I will clean it up as soon as I get a moment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.248.176.112 (talk) 15:38, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

So poor, so bad
According to WB data, India's percentage of population below poverty line is close to Sub-Sahara Africa, that's it.

Accuracy of number
Given India's very low GDP per capita, how credible is it to suggest 20% of the population is middle class? Does not that require the definition of middle class to be very low - i.e. what would be considered below the poverty line in Western countries?Royalcourtier (talk) 06:54, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Obviously wrong statement - last paragraph of physical infrastructure
It is stated in the last paragraph in the section titled "physical infrastructure" -

"A 2007 study by the Asian Development Bank showed that in 20 cities the average duration of water supply was only 4.3 hours per day. No city had a continuous water supply. The longest duration of supply was 12 hours per day in Chandigarh, and the lowest was 9 hours per day in Rajkot."

If the longest was 12 hours and lowest was 9 hours, how can the average be 4.3 hours? Shouldn't it be somewhere between 12 and 9? How can the person who wrote this paragraph be so callous? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.242.238.184 (talk) 15:07, 23 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Good catch! Turns out the 4.3 average for the 20 cities was right. It was the number for Rajkot should have been 0.3 hours instead of 9 hours. Here is a link to the ADB report and data if you are interested; see page 3 for the relevant bit. Abecedare (talk) 17:48, 23 March 2015 (UTC)