poverty problem in india?

Answer 1

Poverty is a significant problem in India
Poverty is a root cause for many other problems including population explosion, child labor and crime proliferation

Incidence of poverty is strongly dependent of various social, economic and natural factors. Being a nation of 1 billion people compacted in a region one-third the size of United States and heavy concentration of population in lands far from the access to sea, complicates the problem. The nation has a large variety of tribals, who do not have access to any of the gifts of modern world but suffer the negative aspects of modernization, including pollution and global warming.

To eradicate the poverty , we the youth has to come forward.
The poor people has to be provided with free education . Education is the best way , to eradicate as they can understand the proper way of living .

Answer 2

Yes! India is indeed a POVERTY FILLED nation, in spite of vainglorious statements being made by our Economists and Political Pundits otherwise. In effect, we have more than 600 million people whose average annual income is not even Rs.5, 000. Compare this with the salary paid to an employee (such as a Front Office personnel) in a Multi-national IT company ... it could range from Rs.300, 000 to Rs.600, 000 ( a disparity of over 100 times!). When we compute such concepts as GDP, Per Capita etc, we tend to be enamored more by the "average statistic" and the reality gets clogged in the end number that hides the facts on the ground.

Now the question is: HOW DO WE PRACTICALLY CREATE MORE EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT? The answer to this and many more related questions have been in the minds and thoughts of various personalities starting from Nehru through Manmohans and Abdul Kalams. But so far no real solution or even a small step toward that direction is seen. The answer to the WHY of this could be summed up in the idea that INDIA CANNOT ATTEMPT TO MIMIC THE WESTERN MODELS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH WHICH HAD A DIFFERENT CONTEXT AT DIFFERENT SPACE-TIME CONDITIONS. INSTEAD WE MUST DEVELOP OUR OWN MODEL OF GROWTH THROUGH OUR OWN TECHNOLOGIES, EVEN IF IT NECESSITATES "REINVENTING THE WHEEL"

Answer 3

Please read the whole answer. It is long, but it states all the facts. I mean ALL.

Poverty and population are one of the major problems faced by India today. In fact, population can also be seen as a cause of poverty. The huge population of our country is eating all our resources. And these resources are not evenly distributed. The people with more money tend to take up more resources than they need, leaving others to suffer. That makes the poor poorer.

There are a number of causes for widespread poverty in India. One historical reason is the extremely low level of economic development. This problem has existed since India was conquered by the British. The British discouraged industrial development in India. This was what started the problem of unemployment. Also, the population grew very fast. These two combined to make poverty a huge problem after Independence.

Unemployment is a main cause of poverty even today. The Green Revolution and the spread of irrigation helped in creating many job opportunities in Agriculture. But these were limited to some parts of India. The industrial growth looked promising too but it was not enough to absorb all job seekers. Without a proper job in a reputable company, failed applicants started to work as rickshaw pullers, vendors, labourers, domestic helps etc. With small and irregular incomes, proper housing could not be afforded. These people started living in dilapdated slums and poverty, largely a rural problem, began to engulf the cities.

Illiteracy is both a consequence and a cause of poverty. Due to lack of enough money, parents cannot afford to educate their children. So, the children start to work to support the family. Due to lack of education, they cannot apply for government or private posts. They too end up as rickshaw pullers, vendors, labourers, domestic helps etc.

The government has issued many policies. Even so, it wasn't able to tackle the problem due to lack of proper implementation of these policies. School textbooks talk a lot about what the government has planned for education, poverty etc., but few mention that these policies are really gimmicks and are either not implemented properly, or not implemented at all.

Social exclusion is an extremely disturbing cause. Here, poor people are thrown out of places where their economic superiors live. They are not allowed to enjoy the same resources, environment and surroundings as their "better-offs". This is closely related to the traditional system of castes that is followed even today that prevents all from getting equal opportunity. I positively hate this system and feel that this is barbaric. Why are there reservations? Why can't all children just study well and be judged on merit rather than on birth? A brahmin with 96% in Class XII board is given less preference than an SC student who just about got 65%. By trying to reserve seats, the government is increasing opportunities for the so called lower classes, but are at the same time, taking away all the oppurtunities of others. Students of any class can be intelligent and can study well. Free education till the age of 14 has been promised but again, as I have mentioned, has not been implemented properly.

Economic growth is absolutely essential in India. China and Japan were worse off than India before the Second World War. In fact, Japan and Korea were reduced to nearly nothing by 1946. But look at them now! Japan has the second best economic growth rate, in close competition to USA. Korea and China have also developed extremely rapidly. We are little better off now than we were in the 50s as far as poverty is concerned. Though the number has reduced, poverty exists in every single city. The decline in poverty is at least 10 times slower than Japan! Somebody mentioned Indian corporations buying up British companies. Let me make it very clear! The owner of the company has made enough money and therefore can do so. You can't generalize because Mittal and Tata did so. If this kind of generalization was proper and if India was making enough money, why is 60% of India earning less that Rs. 10000/- a month. Every country has tycoons. It doesn't mean that 60% or more of the country's population is not poor. There is unequal resource distribution, but that is only one cause.

Also, poverty line is estimated on the basis on the physical quantites needed for bare survival, not on the requirements for a comfortable. Anyone with 2 square meals a day, a roof to sit under, with two pairs of shirts and trousers and an income of about Rs. 2000 /- a month is considered to be above poverty line. So, many people who are really poor are calssified not to be so and are therefore not given enough attention.

Answer 4

The problem is not lack - it is distribution.

India is making more income now than ever bfore. Indian corporations are purchasing major American and British companies.

Answer 5

it is acute national problem which our country has not been able to solve as it has been passing to hundreds of generations
all indian citizen should be concerned to it for a solution
otherwise our national freedom will be meaningless to 30 crores of deprved fellow indians

Answer 6

We should all try to reduce it by sincerely contributing something solid!

Answer 7

probably due to their caste system. they need to industrialize more. they'd make a killing.