9. Answer the following questions briefly
(i) What do you understand by human poverty?
(ii) Who are the poorest of the poor?
(iii) What are the main features of the National Rural Employment
Guarantee Act 2005?
Answers
i)Human poverty is a concept that goes beyond the limited view of poverty as lack of income.
It refers to the denial of political, social and economic opportunities to an individual to maintain a ‘reasonable’ standard of living.
Illiteracy, lack of job opportunities, lack of access to proper healthcare and sanitation, caste and gender discrimination, etc are all components of human poverty.
ii) Womenkind , female and old people r poorest of the poor
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Answer:
1)Poverty involves the scarcity of basic food, clean water, health, shelter, education and information.
2)Woman,New born female baby and even also old age people.
3)a) Adult members of a rural household may apply for employment if they are willing to do
unskilled manual work.
b) Such a household will have to apply for registration to the local Gram Panchayat, in writing, or orally.
c) The Gram Panchayat after due verification will issue a Job Card to the household as a whole. The
Job Card will bear the photograph of all adult members of the household willing to work under
NREGA. The Job Card with photograph is free of cost
d) A Job Card holding household may submit a written application for employment to the gram
Panchayat, stating the time and duration for which work is sought. The minimum days of employment
have to be fifteen.
e) The Gram Panchayat will issue a dated receipt of the written application for employment, against
which the guarantee of providing employment within 15 days operates.
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