Social Issue
“India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that Sparkles not only in our magnificent art but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village”
~ Pranab Mukherjee
Source: Moneycontrol
According to a survey, 10% of Indians were poor in India (2019), and rural areas had more poor people than urban areas. Approximately 5 crore people are plunged into poverty.
Poverty is one of the biggest social issues in India. Other issues do exist but why is poverty the main issue rising above so quickly in our country?
after government existing and non-governmental organizations, NGOs also help a lot of people educate and empower. Even government schemes have also opened a lot of horizons.
Searching for the social reason for poverty rising so much is the unequal distribution of resources among the citizens of our society.
The question comes when we think about how the distribution started happening. This distribution happened in a lot of different parts and different time zones.
but the main system of inequalities started happening after the partition where lakhs of people were thrown into poverty and their houses and jobs were taken away.
but people with good economic status and political power at that time gained a lot of profit from the whole system, where they got enormous houses and education was something that was considered necessary for their children. This is The biggest social issue in India.
On the other hand, they kept servants which were in many cases aged children who would often be their housekeepers and those under-age children were put to work at such an early age to earn money for their basic requirements like food and water.
The question often comes up when we see a rich individual never helping the poor individual and they put them into a position of a worker. but then no one focuses on the unequal distribution of labor and blames the rich for ignoring the poor.
But how many rich people can also help the poor people exactly and are the citizens even capable of donating their money? When these questions come in they bring us to a dilemma where half of the problems still are unanswered.
Although poverty is not a new thing it has always existed in our society where rich and poor have been segregated between them. back then people who used to get discriminated against on the basis of caste would not even be given a place to sleep or two stay properly and they were deprived of even earning money.
From these small inequalities came inequality bigger than these, which still affects our society and deprives people of living properly and comfortably.
The system of inequality begins also when there is an accumulation of capital in a particular hand and not distributed equally amongst all the citizens of our society.
But poverty doesn’t just come out of thin air. It does have consequences related to them which are harmful even for the kids of poor people who are not getting an education in the correct form, comfortable space to grow, and even pure water to drink.
When the basic necessities are at stake people will deprive themselves of not focusing on things like education, because of which society is missing out on a lot of young minds who could have helped in its betterment.
Technically the future generation is at stake when not given resources to live, it is disturbing to imagine a country where death rates are rising as poverty deprives individuals of even basic necessities. how will the individual survive all their life without proper food, water, and an environment to live in?
Though the soaring population helps the government to increase the economy, it is affecting the public by increasing social issues such as surges in rental rates, congestion on roads, and creating an imbalance in society.
