How is poverty and the issue of caste system intertwined? State any one reason
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hough, of course, there appears to be growing affluence in higher level of the society and the lavishness shown by many in the big cities on the occasion of marriages or birthdays presents a scenario which confounds those who say that India is a poor country, but the truth of the matter is that India is a poor country of rich people.
It is the proportion which defines the poverty level. The proportion of such lavish-level-expenditure-incurring people among the 1.25 billion of India’s population would be mere 1% or at the most 2% while those below the line of poverty are still around 21%. A large percentage of people are on the line of poverty and the rest are those who live above the line of poverty. A large proportion of people living above the line of poverty merely manage to live their living. Some may be said to be well-to-do out of which 2% to 4% may be affluent proportionately on the higher level. This is what the total scenario of poverty in India is.
There still appear reports in the newspapers how the whole family commits a suicide due to acute condition of poverty prevailing in India. After the earthquake in Gujarat inspite of all relief work, people have died not for anything else but due to their lack of purchasing power. Even if food grains are made available at subsidized rates still there are people who do not have means even to pay the subsidized rates. How many are reported to have died of acute cold as they hardly could afford so much covering as to enable them to sustain themselves against the intensity of the weather.