What are some OMG facts about India?

 What are some OMG facts about India?

India is the world’s most populous nation as of 2023. India today has over 1.4 Billion people, and this makes one in seven people on the planet Indian or a person of Indian Origin.

Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi, 1972.

2. Project Tiger has been the most successful program of its kind. Initiated by Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi on March 26, 1973, she would state with clear clarity of purpose, that a nation which had repeatedly equated itself with the guardian of its forests and jungles, the Indian Bengal Tiger; stood with less than 1500 tigers remaining. The British Colonial Occupation had ensured the Indian Cheetah had gone extinct just two years after India regained independence in 1947. Fearing the same fate for the Bengal Tiger, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi single handily pushed for the establishment of Tiger reserves, and today India has just inaugurated the 55th reserve. India which today has nearly three times the population it did in 1973 has ensured the survival of the Bengal Tiger with a now stable population of over 3500 tigers.

3. After the extinction of the Indian Cheetah, India has once more brought a Cheetah species to India. The word “Cheetah”, in Hindi means that which is “adorned, and painted.” The project is its infancy after launching in 2022, and after setbacks the effort continues

4. India is the fifth largest economy in the world without PPI adjustment, and with PPI adjustment it is the world’s third largest economy. India expected to continue to grow at a faster rate than any other large economy for the remainder of the decade.

5. India’s stock market capitalization has crossed the 4 trillion dollar mark in 2023.

6. Indian Sanskrit is the most natural language for developing Artificial Intelligence, as its grammar allows for inflection with flexible modification.

7. India has a food reserve which if stacked would reach the moon and back several times.

8. India is the first country to land both on the dark side of the moon and the South Pole, achieved in 2023.

9. India is the world’s largest producer of milk

10. In 1947, India was a deficient nation. In 1975, India became a self-sufficient in food production. Today, India is the world’s second largest grower of wheat and pulses.

11. India’s military is the world’s second largest in the world, and is the world’s largest Voluntary defense force.

12. Life expectancy in India in 1947 was 32 years, today that figure is 72 on average. India has done more to better the health of its citizens than most nations. In 1947, 70% of the world’s polio cases were in India, today Polio has been completely eradicated.

13. India has instituted a mandate communicating a right to education. In the coming years literacy rates which stood at 9% and today have reached 75% will reach 99%

14. From 1984 until 2023 the average return of the Indian Stock Markets has been 19.7% per year.

15. As of 2023 India has the world’s largest road network. Key Indians such as my Great Grand Father Baba Shib Dayal Bedi would build the Pre-Independence Railways of India, it is a misnomer that the task was accomplished just by the British Colonial Government. This network would be expanded after India regained Independence. India’s railway network is one of the largest in the world. Indian National Railways move the equivalent of the entire population of Canada on a daily basis.