Many holy souls have left us by saying that have a wonderful endless journey of independence. We have celebrated more than 60 years of independence but still there is a something about we doesn’t feel proud. That’s our poverty, although we lies in the category of the world’s biggest economies but still we are amongst the poorest country in the world. We lack primary health and educational services and other basic needful. Its all due to poverty in our country. Among the causes of poverty there is British rule, large population, low literacy, societal structure including the caste system and role of women, dependence on agriculture, and the economic policies adopted after its independence. For the sake of example there are many children who have never got chance to go school, and there are many student who have completed their college but still looking for jobs but it becomes more critical when thousands of people dies due to deficiency of food and basic needs. Its all because of our poverty, we not only need to develop but also develop very fast to overcome this situation.There are few statistics which shows our critical situation.
Poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have a third of the world's poor. According to the a 2005 World Bank estimate, 42% of India's falls below the international poverty line of $1.25 a day (PPP, in nominal terms Rs. 21.6 a day in urban areas and Rs 14.3 in rural areas); having reduced from 60% in 1980.[1] According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 27.5% of the population was living below the poverty line in 2004–2005, down from 51.3% in 1977–1978, and 36% in 1993-1994[2] While poverty rates in India are high, they are not on a par with what neighbouring Pakistan and Bangladesh experience.
