what are main causes of poverty in india?

Answer 1

Overpopulation, the after effects of being conquered by the British.

Answer 2

If you pool all the replies, the answer is nearly ready.. but not fully.. our wise audience are taking the subject like hobby and not seriously enough to answer critically...

Has not over populated Chinese seen development much more than us? It is because the regimented governance ensures proper flow of technology and assistance to apply them in the field.. Here there is many a slip between the cup and the lip...

In the first place the development without employment generation is (what Dr Swaminathan calls "jobless Growth") the main reason for the poor unable to show their skills to grow... And even the few good plans are implemented tardily...

Consider, after five decades of planning, we do not have even community thrashing yards.. You can see farmers drying and thrashing the sheaves on the highway roads... But the experts are talking about hitech approaches without developing the infra... The domestic market is exploitative... they procure agrl goods at low rates and sell to consumers at high rates.. Without setting right such basic infirmities we have come to talk of globalisation... who is going to share the profits of exports with basic producers (farmers)...

As someone has replied the business man will profit and claim the contribution to "development"... Our literacy levels are not very low any more and we find graduates in rural side and even producing more than what is done in Research Stations... they are resourceful and knowledgeable... Only there is no opportunity to grow..!

The real planners have precious little knowledge about ground realities and simply quote the foreign experiences... let them leave planning to the farmers after providing the infra.. Desilt the tanks that have lost the real (registered) storage capacity, provide thrashing yards, storage godowns, market link up etc etc and see what miracle happens...

The farmers are already making lot of noise but there is no one to hear them, they are drowned in the noise created by vested interests and power groups... India is not poor... its people are kept poor by the govt by its wrong approaches and faulty implementations..

Answer 3

The major causes for poverty are:

>high level of dependence on primitive methods of agriculture
>rural urban divide
>75% of indian population depends on agriculture whereas the contribution of agriculture to the GDP was 22%
>while services and industry have grown at double digit figures, agriculture growth rate has dropped from 4.8% to 2%
>high level of inequality arising from rural-urban divide
-high population growth rate
-high Illiteracy
-unemployment and under-employment

Answer 4

the main cause of poverty is unemployment

Answer 5

Illiteracy

Answer 6

minorty population of india having birth rate 60 &death rate20,non minorty br of25&drapp17. population is increasing @2%growth rate due to non punishing vote policy .caste of foodgrains increasing ,standerd of living increasing&tendency to become equal increasing,so poverty is more 7in increasing .

Answer 7

the following reasons are responsible for your question

>>>lack of paying taxes
>>> increase of food prices.
>>>high population.
>>>unemployment.
>>>irresponsible political persons
>>>low education
>>>achieving self sufficiency

Answer 8

It's Bush's fault.

Answer 9

Always thinking of laying down others...

Answer 10

rise in population n illetracy