Poverty.

Poverty is the pronounced deprivation of well being. It is the inability to satisfy one's basic needs because one lacks income to buy services or from lack of access to services. Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the state of severe deprivation of basic human needs, which commonly includes food, water, sanitation, clothing, shelter, health care, education and information.  - WIKIPEDIA 

POVERTY. Read how even Wikipedia recognizes the fact that poverty refers to state of severe deprivation of basic human needs.
If you carry on reading, you will see that Wikipedia considers basic human needs as food, water, sanitation, clothing, shelter, health care, education and information.
Don't mean to become yet another politically incorrect blogger, who blogs about sensitive issues about the government and it's genius ideas and then get raged by netizens at but correct me if I'm wrong...

GIVING OUT PHONES TO PEOPLE UNDER THE POVERTY LINE?

FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. Your people out there in India are dying due to malnutrition, starvation, thirst, not having a proper roof over their head/ not even having a roof over their head, not having proper sanitation in their area, not enough warmth, not enough clothing, not having proper health care services, and majority of them suffering because of no proper education. Yet what do you do to help this situation? You provide phones, and what do phones do in situations like this?

Do you expect your people to call Pizza hut? Do you expect your people to call for someone to fix their houses? What do you expect your people to do with this new phone you give them? Call who and what for? Oh so you think you're a great government by doing this?

Oh, and to top it all off, to show the world how great you guys are, you give all of them 250 minutes free. What do people do with this 250 minutes? Your people are dying, they can't even afford food, they ration water almost everyday and you guys, being little geniuses you guys are, you guys give phones. Oh for God's sake, what makes you think your people have enough to pay for a phone bill? Or even have enough money to pay for the electricity used to charge the phone even?

Think about it further, and do not stop at the fact that it will show how magnanimous you guys are, and how much you guys can make a difference so that the people will entrust you and vote for you for the 2014 elections.

Help them solve their problems on water, food, shelter, clothings. NOT add on to their problems.

A good leader whom I will entrust my votes is someone who does something to help the situation, and not worsen it.

"32.7% of the total Indian people falls below the international poverty line of US$1.25 per day while 68.7% live on less than US$ 2 per day."

So 32.7% gets a free phone? And for what apparent reason do you do it for?

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"They are worried it may been seen as a waste of resources that could be better spent resolving power shortage problem or funding food security measures."

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