Poverty In India

Submitted By:
hashim shanavas XII H
Presentation Flow
• What is Poverty?
• Poverty in India
▫ Rural
▫ Urban
• Role of NGOs
• Social Marketing for Poverty
• What can we do?
• Recommendations
• Conclusion
What is Poverty?
• Poverty is hunger.

• Poverty is lack of shelter.

• Poverty is being sick and not

being able to see a doctor.

• Poverty is not having access to

school and not knowing how to
read.

• Poverty is not having a job, is

fear for the future, living one day
at a time.

• Poverty is losing a child to illness

brought about by unclean water.

• Poverty is powerlessness, lack of

representation and freedom.
Poverty in India
• Despite the growth and development of the Indian economy during the last couple
of decades, poverty is, parallel, increasing in absolute terms.
• The bare fact is that nearly 27.5 % of India’s population still lives below the
poverty line, and 75 % of this, lives in rural areas.
• A recent report laments that 77 % of Indians live on a daily income of Rs.20 only.
(Rural)
• About two thirds of India’s more than 1 billion people live in rural areas, and
almost 170 million of them are poor.
• Although many rural people are migrating to cities, 3 out of 4 of India’s poor
people live in the vast rural parts of the country.
• Poverty is deepest among scheduled castes and tribes in the country’s rural areas.
India’s poorest people include 50 % of members of scheduled tribes and 40 % of
people in scheduled castes. 
• On the map of poverty in rural India, the poorest areas lie in parts of Rajasthan,
Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and West
Bengal. 
• In these areas shortages of water and recurrent droughts impede the transformation
of agriculture that the Green Revolution has achieved elsewhere.
Causes of Rural Poverty
Rapid Population Growth
• With 1,210,000,000 (1.21 billion) people, India is currently the world's
second largest country.
• From the total population of India 68.84% people live in rural area of
India and are growing very fast if we see the statistics of past few decades.
Lack of Capital
• People basically depend on farming and agriculture in the rural areas but
due to lack of sufficient capital they are not able to do their farming
activities and earn, so they become poor and go below poverty line.
Lack of literacy
• Many children living in rural areas receive a level of education which is very poor.
Overall enrollment in primary and middle schools are very low.
• 50 % of children living in these areas leave school before the fifth grade.
• These children leave school for variety of reasons: some leave because of lack of
interest; most leave so that they can work in the fields, where the hours are long and
the pay is low.
• A large percent of the dropouts are females. Forced by their parents, most girls
perform chores and tend the family at home.
• These are some of the reasons why 60% of all females in India are illiterate, a figure
much higher than those of males. As these children grow into adults, many are still
illiterate by the age of forty
Large Families
• Generally in rural areas there is large number of people living in one
family. This happens because of two reasons.
• First there is a lack of proper family planning in the rural areas among the
villagers, which increases the population.
• Secondly the people in the rural areas believe in living in one single
families rather than living in nuclear families. This increases the burden of
number of people to be fed in the house and also increases the expenses.
Lack of Alternate Employment Opportunities Other than Agriculture
• The villagers in the rural areas have no alternative solutions to earn their
livelihood accept farming as very few job opportunities are their in the
villages and even if there are any job opportunities except farming the
money available is not good.
Government’s Initiatives
For Employment

• Jawahar Gram Samriddhi Yojana (JGSY) (Formerly known as Jawahar

Rozgar Yojana)

• Training rural youth for self employment TRYSEM Scheme

• Sampurna Gramin Rozgar Yojana

• National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

For Family Planning

• Family Planning / Welfare Program for Population Control

For Farmers Insurance
• Group Life Insurance Scheme for Rural Areas
• Agriculture Income Insurance Scheme
For Housing
• Rural Housing Program

For Development

• Small Farmer Development Program (SFDP)

• Drought Area Development

• Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana (PMGY)
• Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
• Integrated Rural Development Program
(Urban)
• As per the latest NSSO survey reports there are over 80 million poor
people living in the cities and towns of India. The Slum population is also
increasing and as per TCPO estimates 2001; over 61.80 million people
were living in slums.
• The bulk of the urban poor are living in extremely deprived conditions
with insufficient physical amenities like :
▫ Low-cost water supply,
▫ Improper sanitation,
▫ Bad Sewerage and drainage system,
▫ Very less social services relating to health care, nutrition, pre-school and
non-formal education.
• With over 575 million people, India will have 41% of its population living
in cities and towns by 2030 of its nearly 1 billion inhabitants, an estimated
260.3 million are below the poverty line, of which 193.2 million are in the
rural areas and 67.1 million are in urban areas.
• The poverty level is below 10% in states like Delhi, Goa, and Punjab etc
whereas it is below 50% in Bihar (43) and Orissa (47). It is between 30-
40% in Northeastern states of Assam, Tripura, and Mehgalaya and in
Southern states of TamilNadu and Uttar Pradesh.
Causes of Urban Poverty
Slow job growth
• Increasing Urban population (currently around 38 crore)
• Severe competition.
• Those who use to get jobs or promotions easily now have to struggle more due to
the population hike in the cities.
Migration of Rural Youth towards Cities
• Majority of rural area depends on agriculture (which is highly dependant on rain
patterns)
• Inadequate rain fall and improper irrigation facilities these days.
• Low or no production of crops which leads to severe poverty among rural
population.
• Urban poverty also increases due to migration of people from rural areas to cities
Voicelessness’ And Powerlessness
• Many times it is seen that people are not able to raise their voice against
the ill social practices prevalent in the cities and town.
• The local “Mafias” take “Hafta” from the street hawkers, leaving very less
amount of money for their living.
• Even voice is not raised against wrong political activities and elements.
Lack of Housing Facilities
• There is a limited asset base for individuals, households or communities
(including both material assets such as housing and capital goods, and non-
material assets such as social and family networks and ‘safety nets’.
Public Distribution System (PDS)
• The Public Distribution System (PDS) continues to absorb substantial
public resources at almost 1% of GDP.
• While it covers up to 25% of the households, its benefits for the poor have
been limited.
• Leakage and diversion of grains from the PDS are high.
• Only 41% of the grains released by the government reach households,
according to 2004-2005 NSS, with some states doing much worse.
Government’s Initiative
For Employment
• Nehru Rozgar Yojana (NRY)
• Self – Employment Program for the Urban Poor (SEPUP)
• Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojana (Also implemented in rural areas)
• Swarna Jayanti Shahri Rozgar Yojana
• Self – Employment to the Educated Urban Youth (SEEUY) Program
For Housing
• Financial assistance for Constructing Houses
Other Programmes
• Urban Basic Services for the Poor (UBSP) Program
• Prime Minister’s Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Program
(PMIUPEP)
• In line of these approach, NGOs have developed various strategies to
influence the process of public policy making and to control the
implementation of development programs or projects.

Few NGOs in Ahmedabad

▫ Jyoti Sangh
▫ Apang Manav Mandal
▫ VidhyaNagar Sewa Sameeti
▫ Shivbaba Shraddha Kalyan Association
▫ Shree Manglay Seva Kelavani Mandal
Social Marketing for Poverty

Developing a Social Marketing Plan

• Step 1: Background, Purpose, and Focus
• Step 2: Situation Analysis
• Step 3: Target Audience Profile
• Step 4: Marketing Objectives and Goals
• Step 5: Factors Influencing Adoption of the Behavior
• Step 6: Positioning Statement
• Step 7: Marketing Mix Strategies
• Step 8: Plan for Monitoring and Evaluation
• Step 9: Budget
• Step 10: Plan for Implementation and Campaign Management
What can we do?

In our own small way,

let us not waste resources,

the fruit of hard earned tax payer’s money,

which might better be used to eradicate the misery of others.

Let us show that we do care and

realize the dream of seeing a poverty free India.

How To Eliminate Poverty?

• Widening the concept of employment

• Ensuring financial services even to the poorest person
• Recognizing every single human being as a potential entrepreneur
• Recognizing social entrepreneurs as potential agents for creating a world
of peace, harmony, and progress
• Recognizing the role of globalization and information technology in
reducing poverty.
Recommendations

• Launch large-scale infrastructure construction.

• Establishing agric-technology extension service network basically
covering the whole country.
• Setting up national rural cooperative credit system and their efficient
functioning.
• Pushing forward rapid development of rural as well as urban fundamental
education and basic medical care.
• Preliminarily setting up rural as well as urban social security system with
focus on community’s developmental system and assistance to extremely
poor people.
Conclusion
• Though India shows a high economic growth, it is shameful that there is
still large scale poverty in India.

• India has the world's largest number of poor people living in a single
country.

• Poverty in India can be defined as a situation when a certain section of

people are unable to fulfill their basic needs.

• Hunger, malnutrition and susceptibility of poor to natural disasters make

them take up anti national and anti social activities

• It is the duty of the governments in particular and all citizens in general to

try their best to alleviate poverty to establish harmony and peace in the
societies and in the world.
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