Poverty in India
This is the case of Sitaram who lives in a small city of Madhya Pradesh for understanding poverty in India. He works in an agricultural field and earns ₹120 per day but that is too for almost half of a year. And the rest of the time, he takes up odd jobs. His wife Shakuntala also works with her to support the family but she does not get regular work and gets only ₹50. Since 1992, they had a total of 6 members including the husband-wife itself, their 2 daughters, an unmarried sister, and an old-aged widowed mother. But in 1993, Shakuntala gave birth to her son, already it was difficult to arrange funds for basic needs and after his birth, it became almost infeasible to handle all the expenses considering the inflation rate.
Also, her 2 daughters were forced to leave the school. Sometimes, they have to arrange for money to buy medicines for their ill & widowed mother because they lack proper healthcare and clean sanitation. Even with the rise of one more member, it affected their family budget because it is expensive to look after a newborn child. Some days, the family can’t even arrange for 2 meals a day for everyone but somehow only manages to procure daily milk for his son. The rise in population does cause poverty and poverty cause more rise in population. It is a vicious cycle, especially in developing countries like India, and calls for strict actions and policies to stop the negative movement.
Explain How Poverty is Caused by Rise in Population?
Poverty in India is a very common social problem. Poverty basically means when people do not have a sufficient amount of money to even fulfill even their basic needs. The very basic need of a human is food, water, shelter, and clothing but not everyone is capable of even arranging these for themselves and their immediate families. People with no livelihood generally face the problem of poverty.