Homework

  India has the 2nd largest population in the whole world, at 1,173,108,018 people. India has had its Independence for more than 50 years, but a large scale of poverty remains on the face of India. India has the largest amount of poor people in any country. Over 350 million people are below the poverty line and 75% of them live in rural areas. The country of India has an uneven distribution of wealth and is not able to feed and supply healthy water for a large portion of the population.
            The slums of Mumbai is a terrible place to live. The communities are filled with trash that is piled up  behind the homes several feet high. Limited sewage is available to the people. Families are forced to use little shacks with an opening at the bottom so the waste can just lie on the ground. I was suprised to learn of the terrible conditions that the country has since Mumbai is the commercial capital of India. The largest slum in Mumbai is called Dharavi. Approximately 7 million people live in the slums of Mumbai. The slum growth rate in Mumbai is more than the general growth rate of Mumbai.
                          India's film industry is very large. One of the worlds largest film industry is Bollywood which is located in Maharashtra, in the corner edge of India by the Arabian Sea. It is also referred to as Hindi cinema. Bollywood was created in 1913 and by the 1930s, they were producing 200 films per annum.  
                    India has a major problem of Human Trafficking, Child Exploitation and Forced Labor. Human trafficking is a huge issue all throughout India. Men, boys women and girls are trafficked within India. Women and girls are most vulnerable to trafficking into the sex trade. The majority of these women and young girls are poor, come from landless families, and most of them come from Dalit, which is known as “untouchables”, Adivasi, which is the low caste community. `Nobody knows the profile of traffickers ,but it is believed that it may be family members or friends, brothel owners and brokers, community leaders, women in sex-work or people in powerful positions such as police and other government employees. Police have gathered data and have found out that 50% of the traffickers are women. The purpose of this act is for forced prostitution or marriage. Child exploitation in India is another big issue.
             In Northern India child exploitation is an accepted practice by their population as a necessity to alleviate poverty. Carpenters and jobs of low quality pay low wages to child laborers and make them work long hours in the worst conditions. Many of the children who work there are migrants and their family depends on their income to help them. Forced labor is most prevalent to India out of the entire world. Forced labor is just another way of saying slavery. The workers are threatened to work or else they will be punished. The food we eat every day is forced labor. In India, between 40% and 50% of forced labor victims are children. Mainly men or women who are in debt are forced to work as brick kilns, rice mills, and factory workers, often hard back-breaking work. If they cannot pay off their debt they might sell their children to whoever they are working for or whoever they owe money to. In India an estimated 15 million children are working in bonded labor is much better than forced labor.
                  The movie Slumdog millionaire does portray life in India accurately because it shows us how people live in the slums. The movie shows us how the waste is polluting the environment, human trafficking issues and it references Bollywood and the most famous actor in India named Shah Rukh Khan. I have checked, and finished proofreading my work.