Adding to the increase in poverty is the impact on the country's economy

- Aataapakarana Atapata: Dhawal Mehta

- The number of multidimensional poor in India is about 3% of the population

Poor person or poor family was defined on the basis of the annual income of the first person or family. But now the definition of poor person or family has been broadened. The credit for this humanitarian initiative goes to two liberal organizations around the world: the UNDP, the United Nations Development Program, and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, called the OPHDI of the English alphabet. Now a poor person or a poor family means not only low income but also a person or family who does not have clean water, electricity, housing, education, health services, security services, and of course enough income is considered poor person or poor family. Suppose your income is high but even with this extra income you cannot get the above facilities that if you cannot afford it then you can be considered as poor person or family. The welfare states of the world provide the above services to their citizens free or at concessional rates. Capitalist countries are adopting welfare economics. Many welfare schemes have been introduced in India but due to lack of budgetary resources of the government for education and health services, adequate services are not available. However, free medical services and assistance schemes of up to Rs 5 lakh per family for Indians and Jawahar Nehru employment as well as free rationing schemes can be considered invaluable. That is the true meaning of burning up of bad psychic imprints.

Findings of the study: Multi-dimensional poverty study of 2021, even if it is based on the data of the 2016-2017 survey, warns the governments of the world to take pro-poor measures. The data of this report does not take into account the damage done to the countries of the world by the onset of Kovid epidemic, demonetisation in India in 2012, then lockdown and the second wave of Kovid in 2021. Its data is from before this happened. Yet some of the observations and findings of this report are revealing to our sleep.

According to the report, 4.5 per cent of India's population lives in multidimensional poverty and an additional 12.5 per cent are likely to be pushed into multidimensional poverty at any time. For the development of Sabka with the help of Modi government, it is necessary to take steps to eradicate poverty from the country quickly. We have to admit that China has made tremendous economic progress in this direction. In our rival country, China, the multidimensional poor make up only 2.4 per cent of its population, and in China, 12.5 per cent of the population is likely to be pushed into multidimensional poverty. Which of the following is the largest multidimensional poor in India at 4.5 per cent and the multidimensional poor in China at only 4.5 per cent? It may be recalled that China was the poorest country in terms of GDP and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the 19th century. Bangladesh then mastered low-cost manufacturing and reduced its multidimensional poverty rate even lower than India's. Compared to India's multidimensional poverty of 7.5 per cent, Bangladesh has 2.7 per cent of its population living in multidimensional poverty.

The pity of India is that 40.5 per cent of its total ST (tribal) population, 2.7 per cent of the Scheduled Caste population and 4.5 per cent of the OBC population live in multidimensional poverty. Prior to 2014, India's economic growth rate was increasing. And yet if India has a multidimensional poverty of 7.5 per cent, we will have to show the same speed of distribution in economic matters.