30 crore people still live in extreme poverty in India : UN Report

[Windjammer]

And @Windjammer was talking about Indians being obsessed with Pakistan

Aag baraabar lagi hui hai dono aur

Both sides take a dig at others failures and misery but Indians can't seem to digest even anything positive coming out of Pakistan, the recent missile test being a prime example.

 

[Abingdonboy]

NEW DELHI: About 30 crore people still live in extreme poverty in India even as the Millennium Development Goal (MGD) programme will expire in December, a United Nations report has said.

"Still nearly 300 million people live in extreme poverty in India and face deprivation in terms of access to basic services, including education, health, water, sanitation and electricity," the report - India and the MGDs: Completing the Task - said.

India, which has a population of over 125 crore, adopted the United Nation's MGD in 2000 with an aim to free millions from extreme poverty and hunger, illiteracy, poor health.

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The eight-point MGD among others targets promotion of gender equality and women empowerment, reducing child mortality, improve maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS and environmental sustainability.

"India has made a great progress on MGDs, but there is no room for complacency, because there are gaps relative to the goals and targets.

"There are enough opportunities and there is a lot of scope to catch up, and it is critical that by the end of the year when the MGD expires, we really accelerate momentum during this year so that we start the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda," said Shamshad Akhtar, UN Under Secretary General and Executive Secretary UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP).

India has an opportunity to become a leader in sustainable development. It has achieved the poverty reduction target, but the progress is uneven, said the report.

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"Being home to one-sixth of the world's population, the world is not going to achieve the SDGs if India does not (achieve them)," Akhtar said.

After MGD expiry, the UN will begin its SDG programme. India has halved incidence of poverty from 1990s. Still over 27 crore people in 2012 remained in extreme poverty, making the post-2015 goal of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030 challenging, but feasible, it said.

It is significant that countries across the globe have made social development a public policy through MGD, said TCA Anant, Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Planning and Chief Statistician.

"We ourselves bring our report. From our report I can say that we have achieved progress on number of indicators," he said.

Seeing MGD an opportunity, he said, it allows India to sharpen its capability of data mining. "We realised we faced enormous challenges in our capabilities to measure. There are many indicators in the goal on which we still have limited information," said Anant.

I bet the opener of this thread intended this to shame many Indians and I doubt whether he even bothered to read the contents of this article. The report is in fact very positive and praising of India's efforts to reduce poverty and bullish about the future.

This is no small feat:

India has halved incidence of poverty from 1990s

India is at least trying:

Still over 27 crore people in 2012 remained in extreme poverty, making the post-2015 goal of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030 challenging, but feasible, it said.

India and China are the only two nations on earth set to meet their 2015 MDGs, I'll repeat- THE ONLY TWO. Considering independent India started out with poverty levels as high as 95%, the efforts it has made in ending this indignity of its people are noteworthy.



The job is only partly complete, God speed to the GoI and others for getting this figure down to less than 5%.

i hope both countries removed the bloody tag "arch rival" and dedicate their 80% of defense budget to eliminate poverty and improving education. but sooner or later both countries will realize their mistake and sort it out. poverty is our combine problem.

India spends barely 1.78% of its GDP on defence and is bringing over10,000,000 people a year out of poverty (which will increase in the coming years), it is on the right track but the defence budget has nothing to do with it. The first responsibility of any nation is to provide security to its people, the defence spending is not open for discussion.

 

[rockstarIN]

@haviZsultan forget about independent lucknow..

 

[acid rain]

I bet the opener of this thread intended this to shame many Indians and I doubt whether he even bothered to read the contents of this article. The report is in fact very positive and praising of India's efforts to reduce poverty and bullish about the future.

This is no small feat:



India is at least trying:





India and China are the only two nations on earth set to meet their 2015 MDGs, I'll repeat- THE ONLY TWO. Considering independent India started out with poverty levels as high as 95%, the efforts it has made in ending this indignity of its people are noteworthy.



The job is only partly complete, God speed to the GoI and others for getting this figure down to less than 5%.


India spends barely 1.78% of its GDP on defence and is bringing over10,000,000 people a year out of poverty (which will increase in the coming years), it is on the right track but the defence budget has nothing to do with it. The first responsibility of any nation is to provide security to its people, the defence spending is not open for discussion.

We have am uphill task, especially in regards to the 30% tribals who for the large part vehemently oppose any and every development. Add to that, their accusation of us impinging on their culture and their lifestyle - they prefer to remain with the wild or off the land and it's difficult to really push them into developmental programs.

 

[Abingdonboy]

We have am uphill task, especially in regards to the 30% tribals who for the large part vehemently oppose any and every development. Add to that, their accusation of us impinging on their culture and their lifestyle - they prefer to remain with the wild or off the land and it's difficult to really push them into developmental programs.

Concentrate on those who want to be helped and go from there, I wouldn't rule out anything at this stage. Let all Indians see what can be done and then they will be begging for the same for them. Development is an political buzzword and imperative in India now, it is only a matter of time before the local politicians there make a fuss about wanting this kind of prosperity for themselves.

 

[acid rain]

Concentrate on those who want to be helped and go from there, I wouldn't rule out anything at this stage. Let all Indians see what can be done and then they will be begging for the same for them. Development is an political buzzword and imperative in India now, it is only a matter of time before the local politicians there make a fuss about wanting this kind of prosperity for themselves.

Local politicians and their tribe leaders are the ones who oppose change so tha they can maintain their grip..GOI should come up with alternate policies to integrate them into society as a whole.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Local politicians and their tribe leaders are the ones who oppose change so tha they can maintain their grip..GOI should come up with alternate policies to integrate them into society as a whole.

Like I said, let those who are desperately crying out for assistance right now be helped and what can be done be done the rest will take care of itself. No point in fighting multiple fires at once. Concentrate your efforts on those fires where you know you can extinguish them sooner.

 

[acid rain]

Like I said, let those who are desperately crying out for assistance right now be helped and what can be done be done the rest will take care of itself. No point in fighting multiple fires at once. Concentrate your efforts on those fires where you know you can extinguish them sooner.

It's too complicated, they have opposed it for 67 years and recently have taken up arms to maintain their environ. There has been progress but it has been too slow. The youth though are moving out into urban areas looking out for livelihood.

The share of the Scheduled Tribe population in urban areas is a meager 2.4%. Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra, Orissa, Gujrat, Rajsthan, Jharkhand, Chhatishgarh, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, and Karnataka are the State having larger number of Scheduled Tribes These states account for 83.2% of the total Scheduled Tribe population of the country. Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Jammu & Kashmir, Tripura, Mizoram, Bihar, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu, account for another 15.3% of the total Scheduled Tribe population. The share of the remaining states / Uts is negligible.
As per the Census 2001, total population of the Scheduled Castes in the country (excluding the population of Mao Maram, Paomata and Purul sub-divisions of Senapati district of Manipur) is 166,635,700 which constitute 16.2% of the total population. Uttar Pradesh (35,148,377) has the largest Scheduled Caste population, followed by West Bengal (18,452,555) and Bihar (13,048,608). These states, along with Andhra Pradesh Tamil Nadu, Maharastra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Punjab comprise the group of ‘top ten’ states in terms of large Scheduled Caste population in the country. In Nagaland, Lakshdweep, and A & N Islands, no Scheduled Caste is notified.

Total population of Scheduled Tribes is 84,326,240 as per the Census 2001 which accounts for 8.2% of the total population of country. Majority of the Scheduled tribe population live in rural areas and their population is 10.4 % of the total rural population of the country.

The share of the Scheduled Tribe population in urban areas is a meager 2.4%. Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra, Orissa, Gujrat, Rajsthan, Jharkhand, Chhatishgarh, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, and Karnataka are the State having larger number of Scheduled Tribes These states account for 83.2% of the total Scheduled Tribe population of the country. Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Jammu & Kashmir, Tripura, Mizoram, Bihar, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu, account for another 15.3% of the total Scheduled Tribe population. The share of the remaining states / Uts is negligible.

Lakshdweep, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, are predominantly tribal States /Union territories where Scheduled Tribes population constitutes more than 60% of their total population. No Scheduled Tribes is notified in Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana, Delhi, and Pondicherry.

At the village level out of the total 5.94 lakh villages in the country 1.53 lakh or 1\4 of the villages, do not have any Scheduled Caste population. In 171,865 villages and 2,931 UAs / Towns, the proportion of the Scheduled Caste population is less than 20 % while in more than 20% while in 154,481 villages and 856 UAs/Towns it is more than 20% but less than 50%.

On the other hand, there are 105,295 villages and 57 UAs/Towns which have more than 50% Scheduled tribes population in the country while 3.23 lakh or half of the villages do not have any Scheduled Tribes population. It is due the fact that, while the Scheduled Castes population is more widely spread over both in rural and urban areas, the scheduled tribe population prefers to live in groups in the rural surroundings.

 

[AbhimanyuShrivastav]

Both sides take a dig at others failures and misery but Indians can't seem to digest even anything positive coming out of Pakistan, the recent missile test being a prime example.

Its a sad world we live in where missile tests are positive

 

[Hindustani78]

Please keep making fun of India's poverty...this help us to work even more hard to eliminate it.

 

[Areesh]

And there was some bharati moron who was saying that 2 billion Dollars are peanuts for India.

 

[45'22']

And there was some bharati moron who was saying that 2 billion Dollars are peanuts for India.

2 billion $ is 0.1 percent of Indian GDP and around 1 percent of what we are spending for poverty elimination
it's a small amount as far as India is concerned but I won't call it peanuts

 

[Areesh]

2 billion $ is 0.1 percent of Indian GDP and around 1 percent of what we are spending for poverty elimination
it's a small amount as far as India is concerned but I won't call it peanuts

With number of poor in your country it is very humiliating to call it peanuts. That's what I was saying.

 

[mahesh.]

With number of poor in your country it is very humiliating to call it peanuts. That's what I was saying.

Yes its peanuts.

 

[Areesh]

Yes its peanuts.

And you are high on charas.