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Poverty in India P-54
Even after more than 60 years of independence, poverty remains the most serious problems that India faces. India still has the world's largest number of poor people dwelling on its land. Of its population of more than 1.2 billion, an estimated 444 million are below the poverty line, out of which 61 per cent dwell in the rural areas of the country. Most of them are daily workers, landless labourers and self employed householders.
A major percentage of this population is illiterate, with women, trible and Scheduled Castes particularly being affected in large numbers. Today, one in every three persons living in abject poverty all over the world is an Indian. Poverty very is a situation, which gives rise to the discrepancy between what one has and what one should have. Berstein Henry identifies a few dimensions of poverty such as lack of livelihood strategies, inaccessibility to resources like money, land or credit, feeling of insecurity or frustration and inability to maintain and develop social relations due to lack of resources. The three things that are usually used to define the concept of poverty are the amount of money required by a person to sustain, the life below a minimum subsistence level and the living standard prevalent at the time, and the comparative state of well-being of a few and the deprivation of the majority in the society. The first two concepts refer to the economic dimensions of poverty whereas the last one to its social needs.
In terms of gratifying the basic physiological needs, poverty is measured in terms of an imaginary 'poverty line'. The poverty line serves as a cut-off line for separating the poor from the not-poor, given the size distribution of population by per capita consumer expenditure classes. Population with per capita consumer expenditure levels below the level defined by the poverty line is counted as poor. According to a 2005 World Bank estimate, 41.6% of the total Indian population falls below the international poverty line of US$ 1.25. The purchasing power parity (PPP) as per Indian standards is 21.6 a day in urban areas and 14.3 in rural areas.