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Ah, India! Oh, India!

by Gyanvitaranam

Bank frauds

   There are 21 public sector banks in India which account for 70 per cent of the country’s banking system, and they have registered 8,622 fraud cases during 2014-17, not to mention seven cases in the last three months in which banks have been duped of a staggering Rs. 200 billion. **********

Physically challenged

   About 2.68 crore Indians are disabled, accounting for 2.21 per cent of the country’s population. **********

Railway bridges

   Over 37,000 railway bridges in India are a hundred years old with almost 32 per cent of them being in the Northern Zone. During the last five years, 3,675 of them have been repaired or strengthened. **********

Crime cases

  As many as 47,338 cases of crime against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes were registered across the country in 2016. **********

NRI remittances

   Remittances....

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