Question

Write short notes on Anti Poverty Right

Answer 1

It has rightly been stated in the seventh Plan that poverty alleviation programmes have to be viewed in the wider perspective of socio-economic transformation taking place in the country.

While the present strategy of direct attack on poverty through specific poverty alleviation programmes is justified on account of insufficient percolation of benefits to the poor from the overall economic growth, it should be appreciated that the strategy of direct attack on poverty cannot be sustained and would not yield the desired results, if the overall growth of the economy itself is slow and the benefits of such growth are inequitably distributed.