To be rich like the US.

"The latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) data for 2019-21 indicates that India has more females than males with its overall sex ratio having risen to 1,020," even though "The sex ratio at birth (SRB), however, was still worryingly low at 929, indicating continued sex selection at birth." TOI. The normal sex ratio at birth is 105 male babies for every 100 female babies. Pew Research. When test for prenatal sex determination became available in India, "The sex ratio at birth widened rapidly from about 105 boys per 100 girls before 1970, to 108 boys per 100 girls in the 1980s; it reached 110 in the 1990s and remained at that level for roughly 20 years." It has come down to 108 boys per 100 girls in NFHS-5. Children are our future, but only if they get proper nutrition, healthcare and education. "Over 222 million children in India are living under the 'dual burden' of poverty and vulnerability to adverse climate impacts, according to a recent report by Save the Children." The Quint. "Approximately 51% of children in India are impacted by both - poverty and climate change." More than half our children will grow up to be poor adults, ill prepared for the rapidly changing world, thus perpetuating poverty to the next generation. "Children are a marginalised political constituency and while they are the country's future, today they do not vote and hence have no political voice," wrote Prof Devesh Kapur. Highly paid public school teachers do not turn up for work while a large number of private colleges are owned by politicians to make black money. "When even IITs have a 40% faculty vacancy rate, what do we think young people are learning in these colleges?" A compilation of "covid-specific surveys conducted from April 2020 to June 2022 found that the proportion of children who were not enrolled in a school, or had dropped out, ranged from 1.3% to 43.5%," wrote Rai, Vernekar and Singhal. "Further, the proportion of children who 'did not receive any online education' ranged from 10% to 60%, with one study reporting that 43% of students had not accessed any online education for a period of up to 19 months (since the start of the pandemic in March 2020)." In 2021-22, "The per capita income of Tamil Nadu stood at Rs 1.54 lakh (Rs 154,000), whereas that of Bihar was Rs 30,779 (in real terms adjusted for inflation)," wrote Vivek Kaul. The fertility rate of Tamil Nadu was 1.76, while that of Bihar was 2.98. "The fertility rate of women with no schooling stood at 2.82 whereas when it comes to women with 12 or more years of schooling, the fertility rate was at 1.78." Pew Research Center "statistics show that for middle-class Americans, average incomes jumped 6% from $74000 in 2010 to about $78,500 in 2016. Today, that figure sits at about $90,000." msc.com. In 2019, households headed by an Indian immigrant had a median income of $132,000, compared to $64,000 and $66,000 for all immigrant and US-born households respectively." MPI. No wonder, over 32 million Indians are living abroad. mea.gov.in. Educated girls mean fewer children and greater income. Soon we could be rich like the US.