3. "One of the biggest challenges of independent India has been to bring millions of its people out of poverty."Explain.
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With 1.2 billion people, India is the world's second-most populous country after China. It is also the world's seventh-largest country, covering 3,287,000 km2. With a gross domestic product (GDP) of $1,644 billion US dollars, the greatly diversified country has experienced growth rates of up to 10% for several years and is one of the world's greatest economies. However, only a small portion of India's population has profited from the country's spectacular economic growth thus far, with the majority of Indians still living in abject poverty.
In India, almost 800 million people are considered poor. The majority of them live in the countryside and make ends meet by working odd jobs. Many Indians are flocking to quickly rising metropolises such as Bombay, Delhi, Bangalore, and Calcutta due to a lack of jobs that pay a reasonable salary in rural areas. The majority of them expect a life of poverty and despair in the mega-slums, which are made up of millions of corrugated ironworks and lack adequate drinking water, garbage disposal, and electricity in many cases. Poor sanitary conditions cause diseases such as cholera, typhus, and dysentery, and children, in particular, suffer and die as a result.
Poverty affects children, families, and individuals in India in a variety of different ways through:
High infant mortality
Malnutrition
Child labor
Lack of education
Child marriage
HIV / AIDS.