India has always been a country dominated by agriculture. The land has given many natural resources to its people who use them not only to sustain themselves in today’s ever changing world but also sell the refined form of these natural resources to other countries of the world.
Copper ore, bauxite and iron ore are the three main natural resources found in Indian territory. Among these three, iron sees the maximum production here and is exported to rest of the world via the sea route. Orissa and Bihar are the two major iron producing states. In fact, southern Orissa employees thousands of people who mine almost a quarter of iron produced by the country as a whole.
Diamonds, gold and silver make up a small part of other natural resources found here. The state of Rajasthan is famous all over the world for the qualitative gem stones that are found in abundance here.
Coal is the major raw material for producing energy. According to a rough estimate, India has around 135 billion tons of coal in reserve, enough to last for more than 100 years. Though the coastal areas of Maharashtra and Gujarat have huge reserves of petroleum and other natural gases, it is not enough to meet the day to day requirement of the country. For its fuel, India is dependent on Middle East countries.
Recent years have seen a significant rise in production of electrical energy through nuclear energy. Few decades back, the industry was run only by hydroelectric power and coal. Himalayan region generates more than half of hydroelectric power though dams. The water thus collected is made available for irrigation and drinking purposes.
In most of the Indian villages, dried cow dung or wood is used as fuel for cooking and heating water. The demand for firewood has increases over a period of time and people are cutting forests everyday to cater their daily needs. This has resulted in reduction of 3 million acres of forest land across the country.

What is an infrastructure? According to the dictionary of economics, infrastructure is the physical framework of facilities (both primitive and advance) through which goods and services are provided to the general public. This sector as a whole covers an extensive spectrum of services including transport, transmission and distribution, manufacturing sector, water supply, rain water and sewage disposal, port handling, healthcare facilities, education and other basic services.

Some of these services put a direct impact on the business enterprise of a country while other effect it indirectly. For example, a manufacturing unit for cars may not be directly linked to the roads and highways but its work is likely to get affected if the roads leading to it are not in a good condition. Similarly, a primary school in a village ensures that children are given basic education to enable them to pursue their dreams and interests as they grow up.

Some attributes are important from the societal point of view and contribute majorly to the economic development by increasing work efficiency and productivity. Therefore, a country progresses only if it is enable to provide basic amenities to its people. The linkages of infrastructure to the economy are complex and multiple. Each of the economic activity, such as consumption, production, trading, storage and distribution is directly or indirectly liked with it.

The first Government of our majestic India was established in 1950 under the guidelines of the Constitution of India. Till then, the last 59 years have seen a lot of turbulence as well as high – quality decisions. Today, the government of India represents the largest democracy in the world and successfully governs 28 states and 7 union territories, which are also known as the Republic of India.

 The Indian government has been divided into three main parts – executive, legislative and the judiciary. These three branches work independently but are depended on each other in the core competencies of the currently such as decisions on the defence and economic front.

President of India heads the executive branch and exercises the powers given to him or her through Prime Minister who leads a council of ministers. These ministers are elected by their respective constituencies every five years.

The legislative branch constitutes of parliament (also known as Lok Sabha), upper house (known as Rajya Sabha) and the president. The members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha are elected by general public separately. The third branch, Judiciary, has 21 high courts, numerous criminal, civil and family courts and the Supreme Court as its apex.

The citizens of India are governed by Indian Penal Code, Civil Procedure Code and the Criminal Procedure Code. The legal system that is practised in states is majorly based on the Westminster system of the United Kingdom.

As the country is progressing towards 2010, there is an increase in debates related to public health care option. The ruling party sees it as the only way to reduce the huge economic disparity in our healthcare system. A recent study, done by an independent media house, states that greater number of people are ready to support public health system that the last few months. People at all socio economic levels want to give health their first priority and are willing to give a monthly amount in favour of it.

The respondents to this survey, which was published in a leading national weekly, voiced strong concern about class-based disparities and urged government to intervene and resolve the issue on immediate basis.

On the flipside, over sixty five percent of the respondents believed the racially-based disparities (primarily between Hindu-Muslims and Christians) were a result of selfish interests of those few people who believe in breaking the country into pieces to live in peace. As a result, there are many communities, that can afford better healthcare for itself choose to remain in shambles and depend on local hakims to treat their children for any shortcoming in health.

This habit led people to sideline themselves from the benefits of the main economy and chose to protest when the country moved ahead. They have created racially-based disparities and are more resistant to government-based solutions and do not extend much support of policy proposals aiming to eliminate health and other disparities.