Question

Since independence our government has launched Many programs to alleviate poverty  and generate income but still poverty persists why? Give any five reasons . ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Poverty alleviation programmes are not successful across India and the main reasons are the lack of proper implementation, right targeting and overlapping of schemes. Every year more number of people has been added to population pool in India so that the scheme becomes ineffective.

Answer 2

Since independence our government has launched Many programs to alleviate poverty  and generate income but still poverty persists

Explanation:

• After Independence, poverty has been a obstacle to India's overall growth. Some schemes have aimed at mitigating poverty such as provision of ration cards, food to work, MGNREGA and so on, but they have all collapsed due to a lack of democratic penetration in the local levels, a lack of political involvement, a lack of education, and so on
• Schemes to mitigate poverty in India is mainly targeted at covering the monetary portion. For eg, Food for work, only the food portion was being covered. The beneficiary is only entitled to the monetary gain in MGNREGA. According to the United Nations report, poverty is not really about money, and yet the governments have failed to recognise this.
• Most poverty alleviation schemes, like MGNREGA, were either centrally driven or designed and introduced at district level without or with little modification, such as MGNREGA beneficiaries are paying the same amount in Kerala, where literacy rates are high than those in Uttar Pradesh, which does not only have comparatively poor literacy, but is also of a poor developmental aspect.
• Pt. Nehru pursued the alleviation of poverty by education and development at the time of Independence, while Indira Gandhi battled  poverty in the 1970s through direct benefit. This changed completely when the poverty reduction was directly connected with the IT revolution, at the time of Rajiv Gandhi. There is already a shift in thinking as the new government insists on alleviation through inclusion. While any government strives to do good things, the successful results were barely mentioned in the subsequent policy policies , particularly when the identity of the political party was different.