poverty

• Lack of access to education and skills training can contribute to poverty.
• Mention few anti-poverty measures by the Indian government

  1. Prime Minister Rozgar Yozana
  2. Antyodaya Anna Yozana
  3. Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yozana
  4. rural employment generation programme
• who are the vulnerable groups?

  Scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, rural agricultural labour households, urban casual labor households.
• The poverty line is estimated periodically by conducting sample surveys. These surveys are carried out by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO)
• A common method used to measure poverty is based on the income or consumption levels.
• The accepted average calorie requirement in India is 2400 cal per person in rural areas and 2100 cal per person in urban areas.
• On the basis of these calculations, for the year 2011-12, the poverty line for a person was fixed at Rs 816 per month for rural areas and Rs 1000 for urban areas.
• Poverty has been defined as a state where people lack the resources they need to meet their basic needs
• Reduction of poverty is possible, mainly due to higher economic growth, increasing stress on universal free, elementary education, declining population, growth, increasing empowerment of the women and the economically weaker sections of the society