This document discusses several key issues related to poverty in India including landlessness, unemployment, large family sizes, illiteracy, child labor, helplessness, and poor health and malnutrition. It notes that scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and rural agricultural and urban casual laborers are among the most vulnerable to poverty. It also provides data showing that over 35% of India's population lives below $1 per day and discusses trends in global poverty, including reductions in China but slower declines in South Asia.