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This news is an eye opener for those people who say why Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah carved Pakistan out of India.

Muslims have lowest living standard in India: Govt survey

A TOI Report

NEW DELHI: Among various religious groups, Muslims have the lowest living standard with the average per capita expenditure of just Rs 32.66 in a day, says a government survey.

At the other end of the spectrum, Sikh community enjoys a much better lifestyle as the average per capita spending among them is Rs 55.30 per day, while the same for Hindus is Rs 37.50. For Christians it is Rs 51.43.

“At all-India level, the average monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) of a Sikh household was Rs 1,659 while that for a Muslim household was Rs 980 in 2009-10,” said an NSSO study titled ‘Employment and Unemployment Situation Among Major Religious Groups in India’.

The average household MPCE is a proxy for income and reflects that living standards of a family.

According to the study, the average MPCE for Hindus and Christians were Rs 1,125 and Rs 1,543, respectively.

The survey said that average monthly per capita consumption at all-India level was Rs 901 in villages and Rs 1,773 in cities. Overall, the average MPCE was Rs 1,128.

Muslims were at the bottom in rural areas, with an average MPCE of Rs 833, followed by Hindus at Rs 888, Christians at Rs 1,296 and Sikhs 1,498.

In urban areas, Muslims’ average MPCE was also the lowest at Rs 1,272 followed by Hindus at Rs 1,797, Christians Rs 2,053 and Sikhs at Rs 2,180.

“You are where you are because of your choices. There is nothing to gain by regretting things. Review your past decisions for lessons and make a new decision to change. Take Action Today.”

— Craig Ballantyne

True-Beauty is a truly beautiful or pleasing thing or person.

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (born 1926);
Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, peace activist

3 Ways to Support a Growth Initiative

All too often senior leaders see managing today’s earnings as their main job and don’t spend enough time on the pursuit of long-term growth. It’s important for all executives to nurture “internal start-ups,” clusters within the organization that help deliver both earnings and growth. Here’s how:

Create the conditions.

Make earnings and growth equally important top priorities. Work to remove cultural impediments such as risk aversion and the notion that any kind of failure is bad.

Choose the right team leaders.

Assign your best, most experienced general managers to lead growth initiatives. They have the necessary internal networks and understand the company’s values and culture.

Fund the ventures.

Create funds for financing new ventures separate from the company’s annual budget process. Tie funding to milestones with realistic time frames.

Adapted by HBR from “Six Ways to Sink a Growth Initiative,” by Donald L. Laurie and J. Bruce Harreld.

Indian democracy and civilian rule is a facade, which means a superficial appearance or illusion of something.

Forget about any chances of genuine and lasting peace between India and Pakistan, till such time Indian Military establishment has a vice like grip, over Indian government and media.

They even didn’t spare the captain of Pakistan’s blind cricket team and offered poison as drink to Zeeshan Abbasi. Latest example is the vandalising of Pakistani art exhibition in Ahmedabad.

For Pakistan, it’s a sheer waste of time and energy, chasing the mirage of peace with India.

I predict no war – no peace situation will continue till eternity, between India and Pakistan.

Take it or leave it.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Honore de Balzac
French realist novelist (1799 – 1850)

“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; from discord find harmony; in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

— Albert Einstein

“Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.”

Chilon of Sparta –
Philosopher

Find Your Authentic Self

No one likes to work with someone who is a fake. For people to trust that you’re being genuine, they need to know where you stand. Here are two ways to be sure you’re being true to yourself and connecting with others:

Have a point of view.

Know your stances on major work issues and be open and willing to engage in conversations about them. To have leadership presence, others need and want to know where you stand — they don’t want to have to guess or be blindsided midstream.

Be transparent about your position.

Know the difference between navigating the political waters of your organization and actually becoming the politics itself. Get support for your initiatives but be clear about what you are doing, why you are doing it, and how you are doing it.

Adapted by HBR from “To Be Authentic, Look Beyond Yourself,” by Amy Jen Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins.