Hunger For Lives

Since gaining Independence in 1947, instead of being able to eradicate the poverty, India has added poor’s and houses poorest people in the world. On the top of it, there are millions of poor’s in India who are living below the poverty line which despite having been drawn at a very low income requirement has not been able to bring the poor’s above it during last 60 years.

During the last 6 decades, many poverty eradication and poverty minimization programmes, subsidies to poor people, pension schemes to poor below poverty line (BPL people) to ensure minimum income to the poor have been announced. But instead of poverty, these are the poor who are giving up their life due to lack of food, cloth and shelter.

Poverty is determined on the basis of per day and per capita incomes.

Not generating sufficient employment, multifold increase in population without equal increase in job creation, Not using upgraded technology and following conventional agriculture farming leading to low produce and low income, division and sub-division of agriculture land leading to small farms, corruption in implementation of Government benefits to poor schemes, political vote banks are only some of the reasons which have aggravated the poverty problem in India.

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

— Aristotle, Greek philosopher.