Write aboutthe struggles for equality in India.

Issues of equality are central to a democracy.
  1. The main issues that pose a challenge to the idea of equality in a democracy;
    1. Privatisation of health services in the country
    2. The increasing control that business houses exert on the media
    3. low value given to women and their work
    4. Low earnings made by small farmers who grow cotton.
    5. Discrimination based on Castism and financial conditions.
 
  1. The core of the struggle for equality in a democracy are the issues that substantially affect poor and marginalized communities, and therefore, struggles concerning economic and social equality in the country are increasing.
 
  1. The Tawa Matsya Sangh in Madhya Pradesh, a federation of Fisherworker’s cooperatives, is an organisation fighting for the rights of the displaced (due to dam construction on river Tawa) forest dwellers of the Satpura forest in Madhya Pradesh.
     4. There are also many attempts to form cooperatives or other collective ways by which people can have more control over  
resources.  

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