Paradox of Plenty

There are peculiarities in the world. Recently two NGO's Concern worldwide and Welt Hunger released a report named Global Hunger Report.

They prepare Global Hunger Index (GHI) based on 4 parameters namely Malnutrition, Wasting , Stunting and Under 5 mortality.

India's performance degrading from 94 in 2020 to 107 in 2022.

This means that there is severe hunger problem in the country. This shows that people still ending there days with empty stomach.

But that's not the complete picture. India has food security program named National Food Security Act 2013. Recent data from government buffer stock shows double the inventory. Infact inventory is over flooding and has greater than 100 mtons of stock.

This is very peculiar as on one hand people are hungry on the other hand granary is over flooding. 

That's paradox of plenty.

Another case

Two third of Earth surface cover with water. But just some 2% water is pure water and only 1% is accessible. 

On one hand there is ocean of waters on the other hand people are thirsty.

Paradox of plenty.

 

Take one more case

Crores of youth are unemployed in the country and unemployment rate is on 45 years high. But on the other hand there is supply crunch in IT sector. Also lakhs of vacancies in government sector. In fact Madhya Pradesh government itself has more than 1 lakh vacancies and students protesting for recruitment process.

Again paradox of plenty. 

One important aspect in each of the above cases is quality. It is true that supply in raw form is plenty but problem arises when it comes to quality. Food is there but where is nutritious food. Job is there but where is skill set. Similarly water is plenty but dearth of potable water.

So in order to reap the excess supply in any field world need to work on quality front.