The Real India

By Vijay Kumar

While delivering the Field Marshal KM Cariappa Memorial Lecture, yesterday, the dynamic Finance Minister P. Chidambaram revealed certain interesting facts

67,000 villages do not have electricity;

35 per cent of habitations do not have an all-weather road connecting the habitation to the nearest highway or market;

363,664 habitations do not have an assured source of safe drinking water

Maybe after that, the Defence staff did not have the heart to ask for a pay hike.