(What can we do as a country and as citizens to reduce poverty and ensure basic amenities for every Indian?)
Let suppose you get a chance to visit Paris. You will at once start counting its features, Oh! The streets are sky-clean, the traffic regulations are so strict and there are many sky-scrapers and so on. Why, because we never see the narrow lanes and the horrible poverty. Our India is much better than it where the people donate much and have pity on the poor and beggars.
Indian has achieved much in removing poverty but still movies are made highlighting India’s poverty. So, my point is how we can help in eradicating this problem.
Now, tell me why do people remain poor? When they do not have any work or do not earn. A person get work when he has skills, and these skills come only and only from education. So, the first and the foremost step is to increase literacy rate. Open government schools at low rate of fee and teach them in such a way that they may not feel inferior in front of private school’s students.
Next is the corruption. It is growing day by day like an epidemic, the CWG and the Adarsh Housing Enclave being the biggest examples. The PDS system, the government schools and mainly the politics are badly corrupted. The rich becomes richer and the poor becomes poorer. The left-over money goes in bribery.
In the rain of advantages of globalisation, people have forgotten the biggest disadvantage. The foreign companies invest in our country and slowly & slowly take over our small domestic countries and convert them into their economic slaves. These small companies than get less importance and become poor.
In India the small scale industries are unable to come up because of stiff competition from large companies & MNC’s. The government should help them to come up by giving them funds and advertising their products.
The government should punish officials who illegally encroach on farmer’s land making false promises to give them money and more good place to live. The farmers never get back the land and lose their only source of income.
More & more policies like MNREGA and Nehru Rozgar Yojna should come up. People should be employed in construction work or any other field they are skilled at, no matter if the skill is of a cobbler.
Policies should be made for farmers so that their output is increased. The government should increase the Minimum Support Price (MSP) so that they may get a good price for their hard work. Farmers should be more facilities with the Kissan Credit Cards (KCC)
Treaties & Agreements should be signed not only for building more skyscrapers but also to do something for poor.
The politicians should not be given free travelling, free water & electricity supply. Loan activities for rural people should be made easy and cheap because the moneylenders charge a very high rate of interest.
Now let us discuss what we can do so a responsible citizen to remove poverty
1. If you are a housewife, give education to your maid so that an aware citizen comes up from the whole lot.
2. Never allow money to accumulate. Donate it, but not blindfolded. Donate to the right person and in right quantity.
3. Visit your worker’s house and if the conditions are not hygiene, then in improving that.
4. Never send a hungry person back.
5. Never lag behind in raising voice against injustice to poor.
