2. • Poverty is
scarcity, dearth, or the
state of one who lacks a
certain amount of
material possessions or
money.
• The World Bank defined
the new international
poverty line as $1.25 a
day.
3. • India is estimated to have a third of the
world's poor.
• More than395.84 million people living below
the poverty line in India, 75 % of them in the
rural areas.
• According to World Bank estimates, 849
million 68.7 % of India's population lives on
less than $2 a day.
4. • India accounts for 50 per cent
of the world's hungry.
• Over 46 per cent of Indian
children are undernourished.
• Across India 74 children died
before they reached the age of
five for every 1,000 live births
in 2005-06
• India has been ranked 65, way
below neighbouring countries
like China and Pakistan, in a
new Global Hunger Index by
the International Food Policy
Research Institute.
8. Steps to be taken
We need to have
Education for
everyone.
Spread awareness
Better inventions.
Control on population.
Remove corruption
And we need to
“complain less and
give more”.
9. • If you think your
salary is low, how
about her?
•If you think you
suffer in life, do you
suffer as much as he
does?
14. CONCLUSION
• We are fortunate that we have much more than
what we need to be contended.
• So don’t waste any of the resources that you
have.
• Lets try not to feed this endless cycle of
consumerism and immorality in which this
“modern and advanced society” ignores the
other two thirds of our brother and sisters.
“Lets stand against poverty,
So that we all can enjoy freedom and liberty”