Chhattisgarh: Rich Land of Poor People
It is a fit question for economists in India’s 68 year’s of independence that why is a land so rich in minerals as Chhattisgarh still a poor peoples’ home?
The northern region of Korba, Raigarh and Surguja house about 18 percent of the country’s coal deposits. Its southern region of Bastar, including Dantewada, has at least 20 percent of the country’s iron ore reserves. Parts of Raipur district bordering Orissa are even known to house diamond deposits. But, it is in these very areas that vast numbers of Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste people are virtually living in the primitive era without any meaningful education,
health and other basic requirements and amenities. In the past six decades, India has made major progress in all sectors. It is now poised to become a global economic power, everything changed mainly in the past one decade but what has not changed is the fate of the masses of the mineral-rich regions
