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    Poverty is a general scarcity of basic necessities like food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare. Relative poverty refers to inequality compared to the general population. Vulnerable groups like Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and minorities are more prone to poverty. Poverty is measured using indicators like income, consumption, literacy rates, and access to water/sanitation. The poverty line is usually defined as income less than $1.25/day according to the World Bank. In India, 32.7% lived below the poverty line in 2010, with some vulnerable groups having much higher poverty rates.

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    Poverty is a general scarcity of basic necessities like food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare. Relative poverty refers to inequality compared to the general population. Vulnerable groups like Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and minorities are more prone to poverty. Poverty is measured using indicators like income, consumption, literacy rates, and access to water/sanitation. The poverty line is usually defined as income less than $1.25/day according to the World Bank. In India, 32.7% lived below the poverty line in 2010, with some vulnerable groups having much higher poverty rates.

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    Poverty is a general scarcity of basic necessities like food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare. Relative poverty refers to inequality compared to the general population. Vulnerable groups like Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and minorities are more prone to poverty. Poverty is measured using indicators like income, consumption, literacy rates, and access to water/sanitation. The poverty line is usually defined as income less than $1.25/day according to the World Bank. In India, 32.7% lived below the poverty line in 2010, with some vulnerable groups having much higher poverty rates.

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    Poverty is a general scarcity of basic necessities like food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare. Relative poverty refers to inequality compared to the general population. Vulnerable groups like Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and minorities are more prone to poverty. Poverty is measured using indicators like income, consumption, literacy rates, and access to water/sanitation. The poverty line is usually defined as income less than $1.25/day according to the World Bank. In India, 32.7% lived below the poverty line in 2010, with some vulnerable groups having much higher poverty rates.

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    Poverty As a Challenge

    Poverty:
    A general scarcity of basic necessities of life is called poverty. The basic necessities include
    food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, sanitation, etc.

    Relative Poverty:

    This is a condition of inequality compared to the general population of the society.

    Some of the issues which are related to poverty are; Landlessness, Unemployment, Size of
    families, Illiteracy, Poor health/malnutrition, Child labour and Helplessness.

    Poverty as seen by social scientists: Income and level of consumption are the usual indicators
    of poverty. But many social scientists view poverty from many other parameters; like
    illiteracy, lack of general resistance due to malnutrition, lack of access to safe drinking water
    and sanitation, etc.

    Social Exclusion:

    Poverty also results in social exclusion of the affected population. A poor person is usually
    barred from enjoying certain basic pleasures of life which the people in the mainstream
    society are able to enjoy. Many people are not allowed to participate in various social
    functions because they are poor. In India, there has been a history of social exclusion on the
    basis of caste. People from the lower caste and dalit classes were excluded from the
    mainstream society mainly because they had been poor.

    Vulnerability:

    Certain communities are more vulnerable to poverty than others. Data suggests that there is a
    larger percentage of poor among the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Minorities are
    also more vulnerable to poverty. Similarly, women, widow and handicapped are more
    vulnerable groups. When a person has the least capability of withstanding various challenged
    towards his economic relevance, he can be termed as vulnerable to poverty.

    Poverty Line

    Poverty line is usually defined on the basis of income or consumption. Different yardsticks
    are used in different countries to measure the poverty line.

    According to the World Bank, a person living on less than 1$ per day is considered to be
    living below the poverty line. This figure has been now raised to 1.25 $ per day. According to
    2010 report by the World Bank, 32.7% of India’s population was living below the poverty
    line.
    As per 2010 figures; a family of five which is earning less than Rs. 3165 per month is
    considered to be living below the poverty line. This figure is Rs. 4300 per month for the
    urban area.

    The expected calorie intake has been fixed at 2400 calories per person in rural areas and 2100
    calories in urban areas. A person consuming less than this amount is considered to be living
    below the poverty line.

    According to Development Goals Report of 2011, India is the only Asian country which is
    expected to half its number of poor people by 2015. The figure is expected to reach a level of
    about 22% of the population. This figure is expected to further go down to 20% by 2020.

    Although the percentage of poor living below the poverty line has declined, their absolute
    number has increased. The number of poor remained static at 320 million for a fairly long
    period. But this figure has also declined to 260 million in recent

    Graph: Percentage of poor in different social groups (NSSO Report 2000)

    This graph shows the percentage of poor in different social groups in India. While the
    percentage of poor among average population is 26%; it is much higher among the vulenrable
    gropus. Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Caste, Urban Casual Labourer and Rural Agricultural
    Labourer are the most vulnerable groups.

    Apart from the vulnerable social groups, different members in a poor family suffer in
    different ways. For example; women, children and elderly are the worst sufferers because of
    poverty. fferent members in a poor family suffer in different ways. For example; women,
    children and elderly are the worst sufferers because of poverty.

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