India as a nation is not poor , its the political class and public administration which is involved in corruption is poor. Here is the list of scams : http://en

India as a nation is not poor , its the political class and public administration which is involved in corruption is poor. Here is the list of scams : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_in_India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_in_India . Coal scam is over $25 billion , CWG scam is worth $29 billion. Now I wonder if international media would have criticized such administration and if this amount of money which is equivalent to GDP of few nations would have been used to eradicate poverty. >"India's Mars program promises to return useful engineering and scientific data for a price that puts other space agencies to shame!" Even after so many scams and corruptions around , Indian scientists are able to launch this mission at such a low cost, it's really appreciable.