2. What is poverty? What are the characteristics of people living below poverty line?
Answers
Poverty:-
Poverty is a state in which a person lacks the financial resources and essentials to enjoy a minimum standard of life and well being that is considered acceptable in society.
Characteristics of people living below poverty line:-
• People may seems to be poor in health, education or sanitation.
• They are inable to meet the basic needs.
• They are inable to do a capital accumulation.
Answer:
(A) Poverty: Poverty is a qualitative term
that denotes the lowest (sub-human) level of life.
→ It is a situation wherein a large number of
people are unable to satisfy even their basic
requirements of food, clothing, shelter, education
and health.
(B) Characteristics of the people living
below poverty line: The following characteristics
have been observed :
→ Inability to get two meals a day.
→ Non-availability of adequate place of dwelling
and as such forced to live in shanties or slum areas.
→ Income inadequate to meet the required expenditure.
→ Mostly illiterate.
→ Lifespan below the national average.
→ High death rate due to malnutrition and
starvation.
→ Lack of nutritious food accounts for high infant
mortality rate.
→ Child labour forced upon the family.