Poverty As A Challenge
May 21, 2015
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POVERTY AS A
CHALLENGE
Poverty in India
"The biggest enemy of health in the developing world is
poverty."
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 the States of India
One half of India’s poor is located the three states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra, West Bengal and Orissa account for 22.5% of poverty
Poverty in India-Causes
Even more than 50 years after independence from almost two centuries of British rule, large scale poverty remains the most shameful blot on the face of India.
India still has the world’s largest number of poor people in a single country. Of its nearly 1 billion inhabitants, an estimated 350-400 million are below the poverty line, 75 per cent of them in the rural areas.
More than 40 per cent of the population is illiterate, with women, tribal and scheduled castes particularly affected.
Population
Population, if continues to increase at the same rate, it will destroy the country. Lack of initiative by the govt.
Together with sleeping people of India are
responsible for this destructive problem. People are not realizing the problem.
One day the result will be riots, fighting over food, water. India will be the largest slums creater.
I think after 20 years, India will not be the place to live.
Cultural Reasons The Caste System(Hindu Religion)
prevents people from educational, ownership, and employment opportunities
POVERTY REMOVAL PROGRAMMES STARTED BY
GOVT Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
(SGSY) Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) Swarnajayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana
(SSRY) Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana (PMGY) National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
(NREGA)
Impacts of Poverty
A hindrance to Growth of economy. No uplifting of Status of social
structure. It gives birth to crimes and criminals. It increases illiteracy/begging. It reflects the overall picture of any
nation.
Some facts at world level
Rank Country GDP - per capita
1 East Timor $ 500
2 Somalia $ 500
3 Sierra Leone $ 500
4 Malawi $ 600
5 Tanzania $ 600
6 Burundi $ 600
7 Congo, Republic of the $ 700
8 Congo, Democratic Republic of the $ 700
9 Comoros $ 700
10 Eritrea $ 700
11 Ethiopia $ 700
12 Afghanistan $ 700
13 Niger $ 800
14 Yemen $ 800
15 Madagascar $ 800
16 Guinea-Bissau $ 800
17 Zambia $ 800
18 Kiribati $ 800
19 Nigeria $ 900
20 Mali $ 900
Top 20 Poorest Countries in the World
Rank Country GDP - per capita
1 Luxembourg $ 55,100
2 Norway $ 37,800
3 United States $ 37,800
4 San Marino $ 34,600
5 Switzerland $ 32,700
6 Denmark $ 31,100
7 Iceland $ 30,900
8 Austria $ 30,000
9 Canada $ 29,800
10 Ireland $ 29,600
11 Belgium $ 29,100
12 Australia $ 29,000
13 Netherlands $ 28,600
14 Japan $ 28,200
15 United Kingdom $ 27,700
16 France $ 27,600
17 Germany $ 27,600
18 Finland $ 27,400
19 Monaco $ 27,000
20 Sweden $ 26,800
Richest Countries in the World
According to UNICEF, 30,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world.
That is about 210,000 children each week, or just under 11 million children under five years of age, each year.
Today, across the world
1.3 billion people live on less than one dollar a day
3 billion live on under two dollars a day
1.3 billion have no access to clean
water
3 billion have no access to sanitation
2 billion have no access to electricity
William H. Gates
Today he is worth a staggering
$52.8 billion .
He could pay the salary of President Obama (US$400,000)
for 132,000 years
You could win Survivor 52,000 times and still not match up to his
fortune.
The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world’s countries) is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined.
Richest People in the World Rank Country Individual 1 United States Gates, William H III 2 United States Buffett, Warren E 3 India Lakshmi Mittal 4 Mexico Carlos Slim Helu 5 Saudi Arabia Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud 6 Sweden Ingvar Kamprad 7 United States Paul Allen 8 Germany Karl Albrecht 9 United States Lawrence Ellison 10 United States S Robson Walton
1 United States, William Gates III 2 United States Warren Buffett
3 India Mittal Lakshmi
Thank
youBy Ketan VashishtClass- VI ATMS, Mohali
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