Poverty in India

Poverty in India

Introduction

India has a population of 1,070 million people with widespread poverty for decades, which now reaches 450 million people. Although in recent years this country has been growing and developing economically and winning markets in the world, you can see improvements in the quality of life for many people, but there is still many problems to solve. One of the most serious is child labor that has emerged with great force for 20 years just as a way to boost the economy, reduce costs and to sell internationally at a competitive price.

For almost ten years, India experienced an unprecedented economic boom. The present generation cannot afford things that could only dream of their parents. While it was up to the millennium, prosperity, if a family has made a refrigerator, it is now for almost every middle class family to have its own normal cars to have their own four walls and western luxury to be able to afford it. In fact, the current generation of an extremely materialistic generation - it is important to have, as evidence of ownership status and status is the sine qua non of most Indians. Nevertheless, there is relative poverty in India (someone who can live in India without any problems is still far below the minimum wage in Western eyes) and absolute poverty.

Discussion

There are a number of states, known in India as BPL States. Below the Poverty Line BPL is, beyond the poverty line. In the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra, the poverty is particularly high when there is little functioning infrastructure and little political channels, most of which are hopelessly corrupted. Poverty as such can always be only a symptom and not the cause of a problem (Gupta, 2008).

Slums in India, for example, are not always a sign ...