Question

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?​

Answer 1

Answer the following questions briefly.

(i) What do you understand by human poverty?

Answer:Human poverty is a term that means that poverty in India is not just limited to the economic status of the people but rather spreads in various other sectors, which include lack of education, negligence of health care system, discrimination and disparity. Abolishing poverty from the country should not be the only aim of the authorities but to abolish human poverty must be the aim.

(ii) Who are the poorest of the poor?

Answer:Women, female infants and elderly are considered to the poorest of the poor. This is because in a poor household, these people suffer the most and are deprived of the maximum necessities in life.

(iii) What are the main features of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005?

Answer:The main features of the National Rural Employment Act 2005 are as follows:

To provide 100 days of wage employment to every household to ensure livelihood security

Sustainable development to address the cause of drought, deforestation and soil erosion

One-third of the proposed jobs under this scheme have been reserved for women.

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Answer 2

Explanation:

Women, elderly people and female infants are the poorest of the poor is society. Women, elderly people and the girl child are systematically denied equal access to the resources available in the family. That is why they and considered the poorest of the poor.