As part of AD2000,         Christian organisations in most countries, including India, had an embarked         on an ambitious National AD2000 Initiative. In India the Evangelical Fellowship         of India was central to the fulfillment of the goals set by this initiative.         According to the founders of AD2000 (and that includes Bush’s pal Billy         Graham) north India is the ‘kairos’, the key. India is where the era of         modern missionary effort began nearly 200 years ago with the arrival of         William Carey, the father of modern evangelical missions. However, the         nine north and central Indian states of Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh,         Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and         Haryana were considered areas of immense strategic importance for the         following reasons: The Gangetic belt         is one of the most heavily populated regions of the world. Forty percent         of the Indian population lives here;

 New Delhi is the capital and centre of political power in India;   It is the most socially deprived area of India (the Hindi belt has a literacy         rate of 30 percent, infant mortality is double the national average and         the government of India officially designates four of these states as         BIMARU (sick));   This area of India is known as the heartland of Hinduism, a religion that         boasts of some 33 million gods; and It has the smallest Christian presence         in all of India. According to the 1991 census, the Christian population         of North India is 0.5 percent of the total population. Clearly, north India         was strategically important for the missionaries. What made things easier         for them was the new buoyancy in India-US relations. Therefore, it was         open to researchers and their research plans. Billy Graham and his ilk         openly admit that they dispatched spying missions to India. “Just         as Joshua sent out the spies to survey the land and report on its condition         before the children of Israel moved out in obedience to God’s command,         many more missionaries and Christian workers are finding research information         invaluable in laying their plans,” say the AD2000 and Beyond Movement         documents. Over the past eight years, tremendous energies and resources         have been spent on spying out the land and its inhabitants. 
The India Missions         Association (IMA) in partnership with Gospel for Asia, another big American         missionary outfit, researched and published very informative and accurate         books that unraveled the intricate mosaic that is India. Some of those         books are in Tehelka’s possession. One of the big achievements of the         Chennai-based IMA was conducting a detailed India-wide PIN code survey.         India’s postal service is one of the world’s largest and it is important         to understand why American mission agencies picked on India’s postal system         to devise their covert conversion strategy. The Indian postal system has         a network of 1,52,786 post offices-89 percent of them in villages, which         means one post office for 23.12 sq. km of rural land and one for every         3.16 sq. km of urban stretch, or one for a village with 4,612 people or         one for 12,924 people in a town or city.