By Admin 
When the year 2025 was completing its journey with good and bad memories in its lap, then a good news was announced. On December 29, this pleasant information was shared from PIB, the official information agency of the Government of India, that our beloved country has become the fourth largest economy in the world by surpassing Japan.
This news is a relief for every Indian. It is going to be full of excitement. Independent India had to wait for almost 75 years to witness this moment. Our generation is lucky that it got a chance to see these times. As soon as this report passed our eyes, the heart did not feel the truth of this richness very warmly. This question flashed in my mind whether this is just a figment of my mind or should this be the truth of the feeling of my beating heart.
Before embarking on the journey of truth, let us know what has been said in this announcement full of good news. According to PIB, according to IMF’s World Economic Outlook Report (April 2025), India’s economy has reached 4.18 trillion dollars and thus the country has won the crown of the world’s fourth largest economy, leaving Japan behind.
GDP expected to be $7.3 trillion by 2030
It was also claimed in the report that this journey of prosperity will continue like this and it will be the country’s destiny to leave Germany behind and reach the third position in the next two and a half to three years. India’s GDP is expected to be $7.3 trillion by the year 2030.
If understood in simple language, this progress means that now we have more money, that is, the country’s treasury is filled with money. But the harsh reality of this prosperity is that the people have not become prosperous, that is, the wealth that has increased is not distributed equally. That is why the prosperity that has come has come to a few people or has the light increased more in the wealth of the rich, whereas the light of progress that has filtered among the poor has not been able to break the chains of the rule of darkness there. Therefore, O progress, you move at a fast pace, it is necessary, but I have some complaints against you. Your speed is strange, it lights the lamp but increases the distance. Your wealth is such that you live in palaces, there is no complaint about that, but you build forts only by demolishing slums. And you behave like this with crores of people, it is painful, painful and also a naked truth of your development.
After all, why do you want to be so heartless, won’t you get relief without destroying the poor? Will not get speed. Your past is repeating the same story, then tell me this- Why should flowers be laid on your path on this arrival of yours? When there is no hope of getting light from the sunshine of progress, then why is your perfume or lamp or fragrance on arrival?
Now let’s talk about Alirajpur of MP.
There is no need to be angry with this reality. Amidst this feeling of richness, let us visit Alirajpur in Madhya Pradesh, one of the poorest districts of the country. But there are no roads or vehicles to reach the villages here. Thousands of people yearn for bread on June 2. Remain hungry for two days. If money is collected for food, then clothes will have to be sacrificed. If you buy clothes, you will have to worry about bread. The people of this district, which has 90 percent tribal population, wish to get oil and comb for their hair. They are waiting for good days in life with the desire to get small things like bangles in their hands, earrings in their ears, nose ring and anklets in their feet. These things are recorded in the report of NITI Aayog which says that this district has the highest poverty in the country.
The story of pain does not stop here, we want to feel the richness of the fourth largest economy, but ‘Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), an organization that assesses poverty in the whole world, says that Alirajpur in Madhya Pradesh is one of the most poverty affected areas in the world. Where is the talk of the world’s biggest economic power… and where is the truth of the poorest area. Instead of getting lost in the magic of wealth that cannot be satisfied, it is important to accept the truth.
Leave aside the things about Alirajpur. Come, let us try to know the truth about the increasing gap between rich and poverty in the country.
The World Inequality Report 2026 says that the gap between wealth and poverty in Watan-e-Aziz is the largest in the world. All the wealth of the country is with a few people. Let us delve deeper into the report, you will hold your heart, if there is a beating heart in the chest, you will also feel the pain. The top 10 percent of the country’s rich have about 65 percent of the total wealth. If we take it to the number of one percent, then it becomes clear that he has about 40 percent wealth. That means only 1.5 crore people have 40 percent of the country’s wealth. If among the 1.5 billion people, you are counted among those 1.5 crore, then definitely be proud. But the problem is that the rich are becoming richer year after year. And the dawn of progress has not yet arrived for the poor.
Wealth becoming the mistress of a few is not a new story, and is not happening only in India. In fact, since 1990, trillionaires, billionaires and millionaires have been becoming richer and richer. Every year their wealth is increasing at the rate of 8 percent. And the oppression of the poor continues. Their wealth is increasing only by 4 percent. One is already rich and the other is increasing at double the speed. O Amiri Tiri, now is not the time to clap for this strange behavior.