Why are we still so backward?

There are 117000 rickshaw pullers in the city of Delhi alone. Who are these people? They are migrating labourers. Because of economic backwardness of their localities they have migrated to cities where they work very hard. Why is there so much poverty in India? The elected elite are highly inefficient lot. There are no leaders who are good enough to lead the country. Government carries out its activities as exigencies emerge. There is no clear planning. Even with vast resources we remain backward. The general population is suffering as government does not give them any proper social security. While the labourers works all their lives, they gets no pension benefits. But the bureaucrat does almost nothing and gets big pensions, health care benefits and so on. So the poor man is gradually perishing. Many poverty stricken labourers migrate to the cities seeking livelihoods. Many work as construction workers and their job becomes harsher than in rural India. They work without rest. All this indicates poor planning in the part of the government. We cannot provide adequate housing, water facility or health facility for the poor workers. The backwardness arises out of lack of vision to make these basic necessities.Our leaders do not have any vision (except vision of how to win the next election) Poverty rises out of lack of leadership. We did not make any plans for these people. But there is hope. Although we had started industrialisation late, we have brought great deal of computerisation in both government and non-government organisations) which will speed up technological growth. Once there is technological growth, we can successfully get rid of poverty. We must also invent newer methods and keep up with the West in technology, otherwise we would be always lagging behind. We need not just technological innovations, we need to realize that the rights of the people is important in the growth of a nation.