Every third Indian is poor: How to reduce the rate of poverty?

I think this is where we are missing out, with no option for them we are making it all the more difficult for them to come out from poverty, in this regard I really think what Mr. Muhammed yunus the Nobel laureate from Bangladesh is doing a wonderful job in assisting poor with Microfinance with his Grameen bank, and I also had the pleasure of reading a similar article on toostep Take banks to the poor, I think this will give them the platform to come out from poverty and improve their life style.

We are creating loads of wealth but the fact of the matter is only a handful of people getting advantages of our free economy.

The need of the hour is to bridge the gap between haves & have-nots.

India is poor and growth is slower because all our processes are just transient in nature and not permenent. To create a permanenet effect for all the policies that are enacted must be "stable" and "efficient" in the normal scale of things, like depending on Economic fundamentals.

Governmet policies must be such that it "rewards" human initiatives. Those who are not initiated also need have a life, that is if you show initiative you can be wealth and if not still one need not be penalised, still one should be afforded a decent life.

For this to happen a whole gamut of change need be undertaken in our way of creating policies and executing them. Financial sector policies, housing policies, credit policies, infrastructural policies, social policies, educational policies, environmental policies etc; etc; need be framed for stability  and efficiency which is tha above criterion, "life for everyone and nothing less".

Well,I really don't know how to put my idea through so that it reaches everyone on this site,anyhow I'll try my best.Our Country Ranks 84 out of 180 countries in the Corruption Index of this year i.e 2009,we are even more corrupted than our rival i.e Pakistan.The issue that was roaring in the market during the elections this year was The amount of money corrupt politicians, IAS, IPS, etc of India have in their exclusive Swiss bank Account awaiting to be used by there posterity(Future generations) is around $1500 billion.This amount is about 13 times larger than the country’s foreign debt. With this amount 45 crore poor people can get Rs 1,00,000 each. This huge amount has been appropriated from the people of India by exploiting and betraying them.

Once this huge amount of money comes back to India, the entire foreign debt can be repaid in a fraction of time. After paying the entire foreign debt, we will have surplus amount, almost 12 times larger than the foreign debt. If this surplus amount is invested in earning interest, the amount of interest will be more than the annual budget of the Central government. So even if all the taxes are abolished, then also the Central government will be able to maintain the country very comfortably.

I don't know how many Indians know this reality,but if we really want to exempt poverty word from our country then we can come forward and use our vote power.

Vote only to those Politicians who you think are well educated and suitable to become leaders.

We are young and well educated so we should think about this problem.

I want to write more but I'll stop as if I continue I don't know how much I can.

So,the famous quote Last But Not The Least.

Thank You.

In this country we have all the money for spending on relegious rituals and to build temples but not for building infrastructure and facilities that are required for improving economic status of people. There is also a need to reduce our population by adopting one child per family. As a first step Government should stop spending money on temples. Relegion is purely a personal matter and All departments in Government connected with relegion should be disbanded and funds of such departments should be diverted towards employment oriented programmes.

A team wins when all players start to play for the team, and not for their individual self.

India will start to prosper when all keep the interest of the country foremost, and self gain as secondary.

our government have failed to educate everyone so as to make them employable .in fact ,there is no dearth of people who besides of being equipped with  necessary qualifications  are still unemployed .so in order to reduce it ,our government and private organisations should step forward and come up with traning programs to train unskilled or uneducated masses for industry specific jobs (manual) generate jobs and hence an income sources for many families.

but the poor think that the rich with millions is poor ..

so who is really poor is a case study ...for the INTELLECTUALS>..::

The steps to reduce poverty in India be it through Subsidies in food fuel electricity or govt sponsored education,healthcare or direct step like farm loan waiver and rural employment guarantee scheme I believe have not been UN-SUBSTANTIAL.Expectation would have been in 60 years to have eliminated poverty to a large extent.      Except the fact  that these very people below the poverty line are the single largest contributors to India`s  exploding population.The fact that they have the highest growth rate and are growing exponentially.The fact that  they Continue to Have More Children even when the EARLIER ONES HAVE NO FOOD TO EAT, THEY THEMSELVES ARE MALNOURISHED,HAVE NO PROPER SHELTER OR SAVINGS.        One can argue with me whatever.But the fact is- Poverty  Does Not Force Anybody To HAVE more children even when they cant take care of the existing ones does it?IT IS THE MINDSET ......AN ANTIQUE ONE-(THAT WAS FORMED WHEN SURVIVAL RATE OF CHILDREN WAS VERY LOW IN OUR COUNTRY)     THAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED. MY POINT IS-just trying to feed people or giving employment for 15-20 days will never work as a LONG TERM SOLUTION.These efforts have to be coupled with                                                                                                                                                   1.FAMILY COUNSELLING -The ADVANTAGES OF WHY A SMALLER AND MORE MANAGEABLE FAMILY  IS MORE DESIRABLE.HOW THEY CAN LIVE A HAPPIER AND MORE FULFILLING LIFE-MUST BE EDUCATED TO THEM THROUGH GENTLE METHODS.                                                                                                                                        2.PROMOTE BIRTH CONTROL MEASURES THROUGH NON-INVASIVE AND REVERSIBLE METHODS using family health initiatives anti-malnutrition drives etc as a complete health package.                                                                                                                                              3.ENCOURAGE PEOPLE INTO ADOPTING FAMILY COUNCELLING FOR THEMSELVES THROUGH-   Maintaining nationwide Database of people their family size financial health,Giving financial or other incentives.Through media,Literacy drives etc.

In India there are no. of politicians and govt officers are correpted. to avoid this corroption we can make our Country very bright and rich country in the world

People sitting in Ivory towers and the rich cannot determine how to eradicate poverty in this country. Every idea given by them results in making the poor poorer and remain slaves of the rich. If you provide earning power or money directly to the poor. They spend that in giving offering to god because they think god heard their cries and favoured them and it is their duty to repat god. They think rich have become rich only because they offered money to god. look at Thirupathi Thimmappa " Lord Venkateshwara. He is very near to Rich people. If you pay Rs 1 crore you can see him from very near. If you pay few crores you can always see him whenever you want. Recently one of the Karnataka Minister offered several crore worth of ornament. Result is Supreem Court lifted the ban on operating mines, so that he can continue to earn from the mine. Lord had made him minister because he shares his wealth with Thimmappa. This is what poor thinks. So he will offer what ever you give him to God so that god will return him the wealth many times more than what he has offered. When they get money they first think of their unfinished duties to their family like performing marraiages and other ceremonies and since they have money at least this time they should invite all relatives andfriends for the ceremonies. All temples and relegious Institutions are collecting wealth and storing in the form of Silver Chariot, Golden Chariot, Golden ornaments or jackets for god, not on educating the society. They also spent a minor portion of the funds thus collected on building educational Institutions and Hospitals so that they can get simultaneously more money and and Government honours (Rajyotsava Awards and Padma Awards) for partly shouldering the responsiblity of Government and saving the government money for spending on Ministers foreign tours, Health treatments abroad, cars, Plans and helicopters for their use.

Since independance we have been spending money on buiding homes for poor, providing training to earn livelyhood, releiving farmers from the debt burden. Have been spending money on improving agriculture production. If you add up the number of homes built, or free seddlings distributed to farmers or the number of people trained under various schemes you will be surprised to find that we have already built more homes than needed, we have trained more people than the number of youth unemplyed in this country already.

Just verify from the governments own data for example Number of free seedlings of Cashew nut distributed from third plan period you will find by this time we should have become a net exporter of raw cashew nut. But the fact is we Import raw cashew nuts from African countries, and South America even today to the extent of 50% of our processing factories needs. Vietnam which entered the picture recently will be overtaking us soon and Cote d'Ivorie has now become no 2 and bipassed us in raw nut production. Very soon they will over take us in processing facility capacity and we may have to shut down our cashewnut processing factories. Instead of Building steel factories we are exporting ores to China. China is preserving its own ore. We are exporting granite to China instead of exporting finished products. The result will be we will be exhausting our natural resources very fast and China will overtake us soon. The next generation will become slaves to the rest of world. If you consider yourself as a natural resource, then that is one thing we are world leaders. We take pride in supplying labours / slaves to the rest of world. Our relegion preaches that.

The people are socially backward. The impoverishedness is further weakening them and depriving further the essential food and medicine for their well being. The unemployment is the next thing crippling them.

So the problem of rural poverty alleviation should be the two pronged social& economical.

Social Measures.

Establishment of Anganwadis at the effected regions. Nutrient food is to be supplied to pregnant mothers and children.

Promotion of the welfare schemes through NGOs and organizations befitting the people in development of small scale employment schemes.

Implementing programs like food for work and increase their self sufficiency.

Economical / Monetary measures

Release of economic relief packages for irrigation projects for the development of agriculture etc.

With the effective implementation of all the above the poverty can be definitely brought down.

I have always believed that one should work on his strength.  His productivity will improve if he does this.  

Educate each and every individual and poverty will vanish from our country. As per the GOI defination of Poverty a person who earns less than Rs.296.00 per month is considered below poverty line. We have around approx. 30 crore indians below this line and the literacy rate of India is about 67%, so on a prima facia view Illiteracy looks directly proportionate the poverty rate.

Thus motivating NRI's to donate for the noble cause of educating poor people free of cost and also providing tax exemptions to People within a good income group in India can promote helping hands in more numbers towards this noble cause of educating poor people.

Let’ all of us do our job with sincerity and honesty. It is said be like the sun, moon, its rays reach every possible corner of the earth, with out asking who you are? and from where you are? When we say, for poor, there is charity and the rich , there is paid, exclusive service, unknowingly, we are creating divisions. there must be other ways of empowering a poor person. Let the poor person be given his rightful opportunity, without underscoring his poverty.

We have to create more land banks to set up sez and invite multinationals to set up eco friendly projects. The Govt should take initiative and declare these zones as tax free but should specifically ask these companies to do target oriented developments with given time frame thus creating more job opportunities in the rural sector with basic ammeneties such as road, school,hospitals and electricity.

Health is one of the foremost asset for a poverty struck citizen.

A poor citizen who could not earn even  square meal, if he fell sick. Neither he can afford medicines nor food. 

Ifa below middle class family runs well for 5 yars and suddenly bread winner fell sick , What will happen?

So I suggest primary health should be takencare by Govt ,Corporates, NGOs if possible by us whenever possible so that poor can be pushed toearn better livelihood for himself.

I have read in amagzine a voluntary organisation conducted Eye testing camp in a village and prescribed lens an ddonated spects. After this event a started earning Rs.100/- where he was earning 20-30 per daypreviously.

Simultaneously vocational education should be taken up by govt so that earing capacity can increase.

There are many solution proposed for eradication of poverty. But education is the single most important factor that can eradicate poverty completely. We can take the case of NRIs whose fore fathers migrated from this country as labourers to foreign countries. They did single important job tosend their kids to school availing the educational infrastructure of their adopted countries. After second & third generation see their status! In India it is absolutely necessary to provide mandatory education to all. An educated one has the capacity to find ways to fight poverty, hunger & other problems.