India, as we all know being a country appreciated by all the other countries in the world and moving towards from underdeveloped to developing the country in the world it also experiences an extreme kind of poverty levels. Many might be shocked by hearing the fact and put a question of HOW POVERTY OF THIS KIND IS POSSIBLE IN COUNTRY LIKE INDIA?. let’s begin an essay on poverty in India

No one knows in India what exactly the meaning of poverty means. In India, poverty counts were based on a large Sample Survey of Household expenditure and they are also based on purchasing power parity which is needed to buy food with some margin for not food consumption needs. As long as the estimates suggest almost 60% of the poor continue to reside in Bihar-Jharkhand Orissa Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand and mostly 85% of them are India’s tribal people. Though state Government is making a lot of promises and implementing many policies in order to alleviate the poverty in India, many have not been achieved and India ranks top in poverty levels in the world.

main causes of poverty According to poverty definition in economics

ECONOMIC REFORMS OF 1991

Now let us look into the main causes of poverty, one of the main cause which leads to huge differences in the rural and urban poverty is 1991 neoliberal economic reforms introduced by ours. former Prime Minister Narasimha. In spite of the fact that new economic liberalism leads to development in the territory sector of India it also made huge differences of income inequalities between rural and urban poor.

Let’s see how it happened, India, achieved independence in 1947 has not been completely successful in educating all the people and the huge population of its country and so it is really difficult for the government to make people recruit itself into the service sector especially the poor peoples without any education.The best way it would have done is that, first it might have recruit people into manufacturing sector which can provide lots of lots of manual work for the poor people with no education and can earn lot and educate their children and after a decade of getting themselves settled into a stabilized economic position the government then can rush into the service sector, wherein, the recruitment of all the educated people and as well as the development of country can also go in hand by hand.

But the only mistake that the government of India has done is it haven’t done anything to improve the manufacturing sector as well as the education and economic stability of people and then rushed directly from primary sector, which is mainly dependent on agriculture where 80% of population of India depends on it, to directly service sector. So many people with low education as well as who are not rich were unable to grab the developmental projects where the government is investing a lot and hence the poor become poorer and the rich become richer so there is no doubt that globalization and modernization benefit only the rich people and hasn’t done anything for the improvement of the lower and poor sections of a rural poor especially.

There are many other causes which affect directly and indirectly the poverty levels of India one thing needs to be noticed is that poverty levels are being also estimated by using the poverty line, the people above poverty line are treated as non-poor and the people below poverty line are treated as absolutely poor people and also poverty has been calculated on the basis of calorie intake which says 2500 kilocalories are to be required for a person per day in rural areas and 2300 kilocalories per day for a person in urban areas. And the person who is not meeting this requirement is treated under the category of absolutely poor people.

1.HIGH POPULATION GROWTH RATE

The other causes of high poverty is the high population growth of India which is growing uncontrollably since decades, is the main reason for the growth of poverty in India. High population growth is making the government inefficient of not providing employment to all the other people and it further increases the health issues, low literacy rate, income inequality levels.

2.INFLATION AND HIGH PRICE RISE

Inflation is the main factor which signifies too much money chases too few goods shows increase in the prices.This makes poor people unaffordable to meet their health requirements and also daily necessary goods and then health is becoming miserable day by day which further leads to the inability and incapability to work and earn money.

3.CASTE SYSTEM