Poverty In India

Jan 17
19:40

2007

Sharon White

Sharon White

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India as a developing country features a great number of population which cannot be provided with sufficient food, shelter, social and medical care.

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So whether a great number of population or other reasons are responsible for poverty this question still remains open. A population study conducted on an Indian village is noteworthy. In 1950 a Harvard team visited Manupur,Poverty In India Articles a village of the Punjab state and noted the population as a mere 1200 and advocated birth control methods. They found that Indian villagers were capable of controlling their family via abstinence and self-induced abortion. In 1970 an Indian origin African, who got educated in U.S. visited the village when the population was 1800. In 1982 two visitors from Population Council of New York visited the same village and took a survey. But this time the team found that even though the population became 2400, mud houses transformed into houses built with bricks and cement; hand ploughs and bullocks were replaced by tractors and above all 81% boys and 63% girls finished their 10 grade. This, in Truth, was a real economic development wherein population control was administered intravenous. Naturally the increase in human population lays tremendous pressure on earth’s other resources. Rapid economic and industrial growths in developing countries are found to exert extreme pressure. U.S Bureau of the Census expects the world population in 2050 to be around 9.1 billion. To meet our needs of food, about 90 million hectare of new land has to be brought under cultivation in developing countries. The pressure within developing countries towards deforestation is projected to increase over the next few years to supply demand. Economic and industrial growths in developing countries are greater than those in developed countries. Still poverty prevails paradoxically in those developing countries. Wealthy landowners of these countries are capable of acquiring more and more lands, whereas poor rural mass, who can actually work on fields are obtruded out of fertile lands forcing them to indulge in deforestation for sustenance.