POVERTY IN INDIA

PRESENTED BY:-SHIVAM PANDEY

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WHAT IS POVERTY ?

Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read.

Poverty is lack of shelter , lack of food .

Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time.

Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor.

Poverty is powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom

The truth is that poverty is an embarrsement for many rich indians.

Map showing where people are living in india blow poverty line.

The problems of poverty in india

India is said to be another Asian economic superpower after China./in India alone there are almost220.1 million people living blow the poverty line that’s almost 25% of the population truly staggering amount .

Poverty in India is not same everywhere from perspective there is type of poverty , for eg:- states such as Goa, Delhi and Punjab have relatively low poverty ratios whereas 38% of the population of Bihar and Orissa live below poverty line

India faces high burden of disease because of lack of environmental sanitation and safe drinking water, under-nutrition, poor living conditions, and limited access to preventive and curative health servicesLack of education, gender inequality and explosive growth of population contribute to increasing burden of diseaseFull impact of the HIV epidemic and tobacco related diseases is yet to be felt

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Causes of Poverty in India

Corruption High & Illiterate population

Failure in reaching government policies to actual poor Unemployment and underemployment, arising in part from protectionist policies pursued till 1991 that prevented high foreign investment.

About 60% of the population depends on agriculture whereas the contribution of agriculture to the GDP is about 18%.

High population growth rate, although demographers generally agree that this is a symptom rather than cause of poverty. The caste system, under which hundreds of millions of Indians were kept away from educational, ownership, and employment opportunities, and subjected to violence for "getting out of line." British rulers encouraged caste privileges and customs, at least before the 20th century.

Amazed???

As of 2005, 85.7% of the population lives on less than $2.50 (PPP) a day.

the Planning Commission

of India has estimated that 27.5% of the

population was living below the poverty line in

2004–2005.

Between 1999 and 2008, the annualized growth rates for Gujarat (8.8%), Haryana (8.7%), or Delhi (7.4%) were much higher than for Bihar (5.1%), Uttar Pradesh (4.4%), or Madhya Pradesh (3.5%).Poverty rates in rural Orissa (43%) and rural Bihar (41%) are higher than in the world's poorest countries such as Malawi. A 2007 report by the state-run National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) found that 25% of Indians, or 236 million people, lived on less than 20 rupees per day

Impact of Poverty in India

Several issues like hunger, illness and thirst are both causes and Effects – for instance : not having water means you’re poor,but being poor also means you can’t afford water or food.

The effects of poverty are most often interrelated so that one problem hardly ever occurs alone. For instance bad sanitation makes it easier spread around old and new disease, and hunger and lack of water make people more vulnerable to them.

Solution of Poverty

EMPLOYMENT GENERATION.

DRAWING ON VARIOUS SOCAIL INSTITUTION TO FUND POVERTY FIGHTING PROGRAMS.

TRANSPARENCY IN GOVERNMENT SPENDING.

PRIORITIZING PROGRAMS THAT TARGET FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS .

CONCLUSION

The nation which is second in manpower after china is suffering from poverty which is the main

hurdle in way to development must be took seriously, India in last few decade has emerged as a fast

developing country if poverty is decreased it might boost up the nation developing percentile .

Thank you all for being cooperative and patient.