Major Programs Initiated by Government
After India gained its independence, action to reduce poverty in India was understood, as in estimating the poverty rate in India by Minhas in 1950, setting a poverty line for India in 1960, and many others. In the most critical post-independence period, the presidency of India’s third prime minister, Indira Gandhi, considered poverty as a “public consequence”. To achieve two main goals, remove poverty ‘Garibi Hatao‘ and achievement of self-reliance. D.D. Dhar fitted and initiated the 5th Five Year Plan through better measurement of income, higher growth rate advancement, and suggestive flourishing in the rural sector.
A few important government initiatives are:
- Integrated Rural Development Program
- Jawahar Rozgar Yojana
- Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana
- Employment Assurance Scheme
- Food for Work Program
- Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana
- Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awaas Yojana
- National Social Assistance Program (NSAP)
What are the Main Causes of Poverty?
Poverty refers to the situation of not having enough money to meet the needs of food, clothing, and housing. Every fourth person in India is poor, which means about 260 million people in India live in poverty. This means that it is the biggest focus of the poor in the world and shows the gravity of the challenge.
Poverty should be viewed as the poor living solely in a poor environment with isolated poor people, excluded from enjoying the social equality of the better-off in better surroundings. Social exclusion can be both a cause and a consequence of poverty in the traditional sense.
Deficiency against poverty is a measure that describes the better likelihood of certain communities (members of backward wealth) or individuals (similar to a widow or physically challenged person) being poor or living in future generations.
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