Poverty As A Challenge

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Poor: In our daily life we come across many poor people such as landless labourers in villages, people living in jhuggis, daily wage workers at construction sites, child labourers in dhabas, rickshaw-pullers, domestic servants, cobblers, beggars, etc.

Meaning of Poverty: Usually the levels of income and consumption are used to define poverty. In India, poverty has been defined as a situation in which a person fails to earn income sufficient to buy him bare means of subsistence.

Two Typical Cases of Poverty.

1. Urban Case
2. Rural Case

1. It also is a situation in which parents are not able to send their children to school or a situation where sick people cannot afford treatment.
2. One of the biggest challenges of independent India has been to bring millions of its people out of abject poverty.

Poverty is looked through other indicators like illiteracy level, lack of access to health care, lack of job opportunities, lack of access to safe drinking water, sanitation, etc.