The ‘ With AIDS’ Scenario And Its Impact On Socio-Economic Situation Of India : An Appraisal

Dr.Alok Chantia, Lecturer(Anthropology) SJNPG (KKC)College, Lucknow, U.P.(India)

Key words- Labour, Economy, People,

Abstract-
In spite of cancer and other lethal diseases, we are more concerned with HIV/AIDS because of its correlation, with sex which is sole source of reproduction, with blood transfusion which is prime source of survival and with infected syringe which gives instant relief to a patient from many ailments. AIDS is creating more critical situation when we are still not able to decipher any concrete medicine and those medicines which are available to fight against it, are not so cheap. Ultimately any nation faces extra economic load and it leads an imbalance in the allocation of money for different purposes.
In the “ with –AIDS” scenario, the prevailing incidence of AIDS is assumed to have precise impacts on key exogenous variables. These precise impacts are as follows: (i) slower growth in population and supply of labour by the skill categories, resulting from the AIDS related deaths,(ii) lower labour productivity of AIDS- afflicted workers reflected in a lower effective labour input, (iii) declines in TFP growth rates, initially, i.e., from 2002-03 to 2011-12, to 0.8 times the no-AIDS growth rate, and , finally during the height of the epidemic, i.e. from 2012-13 to 2015-16 , to 0.7 times the no-AIDS growth rate, (iv) the share of health services spending of the AIDS- afflicted house holds, is augmented by an additional 10 % of the total consumption expenditure , at the expense of other non-food expenditure. (v) an increase in the health expenditure of the government by 10 % from 2002-03 to 2011-12 and by 15% from 2012-13 to 2015-16.
It is an alarming situation when we have to analyse our duties regarding HIV/AIDS and its impact on socio-economic condition of India. India is a poor and culture specific country. Poverty makes an adverse situation before its people to earn money either by hook or by crook. So it is quite necessary to put an over all picture of Future India, when we stand at third position in case of HIV.AIDS. It is very clear that production, labour, man power etc. all are under scanner because of claw of HIV/AIDS. How much India will grow or fall with AIDS? Is it a fake fear? All above points will be discussed in the proposed paper.