Poverty & Developmental Issues

Poverty is the deprivation of food, shelter, money and clothing when people can’t satisfy their basic needs. Poverty can be understood simply as a lack of money or more broadly in terms of barriers to everyday human life.

• Gandhi says ‘poverty is the worst form of violence’. Providing minimum basic needs for the upliftment of the poorest of the poor (Antyodaya), integrating the poor into the mainstream and achieving a minimum standard of living for all have been the major aims of independent India.
• According to the definition by the erstwhile Planning Commission of India, the poverty line is drawn at an ....