The document discusses government policies and acts in India aimed at reducing poverty, including the Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana rural development program, the National Family Benefit Scheme providing funds to families that lose their primary breadwinner, the Annapurna scheme providing free food grains to senior citizens, and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act guaranteeing 100 days of paid work in rural areas. It notes that while the poverty rate has decreased from 64% to 30% since the 1960s, the total population below the poverty line has not decreased as the overall population has increased rapidly. It also examines causes of poverty like rising population, low agricultural productivity, and unemployment.

1. Government acts to reduce
poverty in India
Submitted By
Ankit Bhandari
IT, II year, IV
sem
Submitted to:
Prof. Komal Sharma

2. What is Poverty?
 The word poverty
comes from old
French poverté
(Modern French:
pauvreté),
meaning poor.
There are several
definitions of
poverty depending
on the context of
the situation in is
placed in and the
views of the
person giving the
Slums in India

3. World Bank criterion for defining
poverty (population living on less
than 1 dollar day)

4. Criterion of deciding poverty by
the Indian Government
 If the average monthly
consumption expenditure
is taken as the
benchmark of what an
individual needs to
survive, the poverty line
would be Rs 66.10 for
urban areas and Rs
35.10 for rural regions,
while about 65% of the
population is be below
this cutoff (figures are of
2009-10)
A new set of
official
statistics

5. Indian govt. policies lowering
poverty
 Jawhar Gram Samridhi Yojna
This programme was later called johara rozgar
yoga then got changed to Jawaharlal Nehru. .It
was started on 1 April 1999. The main aim of
this programme was development of rural
areas. educational(schools) and infrastructure
like hospitals. Its secondary objective was to
give out sustained wage employment. This was
only given to BPL (below the poverty
line)familnder was to be spent for individual
beneficiary schemes for SCs and ST's and 3%
for establishment of barrier free infrastructure
for the disabled people

6.  the village
panchayats are a
part of the people
and understand
their needs.
1841.80 crore
rupees was used
and they had a
target of 8.57 lakh
works, 5.07 lakh
works were
completed during
1999-2000.

7. National family Benefit
Scheme(NFBS)
 This scheme was started in August
1995 by GOI. It was transferred to
the state sector scheme after 2002-
03. This scheme provides a sum of
10000Rs to a person of a family
who become the head of the family
after the death of its primary
breadwinner. A breadwinner is a
person who is above 18 who earns
the most for the family and the
family survives on his/her earnings.
It is for families below the poverty

8. ANNAPURNA
 This scheme was started
by the government in
1999-2000 to provide
food to senior citizens
who cannot take care of
themselves and are not
under the targeted public
distribution
system(TPDS), and who
have no one to take care
of them in their village.
This scheme would
provide 10 kg of free food
grains a month for the
eligible senior citizens.
The allocation for this
scheme as off 2000-01
was Rs 100 crore.

9. Rural Housing-Indira Awaas
Yojana(IAY)
 This scheme aimed at
creating housing for
everyone. It aimed at
creating 20 lakh housing
units out of which 13lakhs
were in rural area.This
scheme also would give out
loans to people at
subsidized rates to make
houses .It was started in
1999-2000. In in 1999-2000
1438.39 crore Rs was used
for this scheme and about
7.98 lakh units were built. In
2000-01 an central outlay of
1710.00 crores Rs was

10. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act
(MGNREGA)
 Started in 2005,
this scheme
guarantees 100
days of paid work
to people in the
rural areas. The
scheme has proved
to be a major boost
in Indian rural

11. Despite these and many more
Govt. acts(yojanas), is there a
change in poverty in India

12. Population
change of
India over
time

13. Conclusion
 Despite launching new
proposals/plans by our govt. ,we have
manged to overkill poverty by more
than half (app. 64% to 30%) from 60’s
till 2005.
 But the population has 3-4 times
increased, the figure of people earlier
were 200-250 million have rised to
300-450 million, despite our aim in
lowering poverty ratio we haven’t
lowered the total population below the
poverty line

14. Causes
 Rapidly Rising Population:The
population during the last 45 years
has increased at the rate of 2.2% per
annum. On average 17 million people
are added every year to its population
 Low Productivity in Agriculture:
 Low Rate of Economic Development:
 Unemployment

15.  Price Rise
 Under Utilized Resources:The
existence of under employment and
disguised unemployment of human
resources and under utilization of
resources has resulted in low
production in agricultural sector.
 Political Factors
 Social Factors

16. Ways to stop poverty
Inspite of govt. efforts to stop poverty has
only decresed the percentage but risen the
amount, the major steps in complete
stoppage are
 Increase access to education
 The guarantee of shelter, healthcare,
education, food and drinking water as
basic human rights that must be
provided free to all.
 A total redistribution of idle lands to
landless farmers and the imposition of a
50% cap on arable land devoted to
products for export per country

17.  An end to private monopoly ownership
over natural resources, with a minimum
of 51% local communal ownership in
corporations
 The termination of tax havens around the
world as well as free flow of capital in
developing countries.
 A commitment by industrialized countries
to decrease carbon emission by 50%
over a ten-year period as well as
reducing by 25% each developed
country%u2019s consumption of natural