CBSE Class 9 Answered

India’s government is aware that poverty is a giant barrier to overcome if it is to fully develop the nation. Despite the country's GDP growth rate about 9%, poverty in India is still pervasive whereas 70% of India’s 1.2 billion populations live in rural areas.

         i.      Agriculture is not profitable today and there is shortage of food. It is the leading cause of insufficient diet and inadequate nutrition. The resources of poor people are very limited, and its effect can be seen in their diet.

       ii.      Urban poverty in India is a direct effect of rural migrations fleeing poverty. This creates a massive unemployment and underemployment issue but also a disproportionate housing problem.

     iii.      Poverty is often characterised with income disparity and unequal distribution of national wealth between the rich and the poor. Concentration of wealth in the hands of few rich people leads to social disturbances and revolts.

     iv.      The existence of mass poverty on such a large scale is incompatible with the vision of an advanced, prosperous democratic, egalitarian and just society implied in the concept of socialistic pattern of development.

       v.      The spectacular growth of cities has made poverty in India incomparably more visible and palpable through its famous slums. There are less urban poor now a days, their sheer number has been increasing. They spend 80% of their income on food and the declining of public services creates new unbearable costs that in the end lead to extreme situations where Indians are denied basic services they once were able to access easily.

     vi.      On one side, we are getting used to selling our dignity for a rupee's work and living on the edge of precariousness another. But witnessing the rest of the population reaping the benefits of formidable growth is probably the most dangerous and unstable feature of poverty in India.