A family in INDIA is said to be below the poverty line when their family income is around Rs.365/month in a rural area & Rs.583/month in an urban area. There are around 20crore families who live below the poverty line. When I discussed about this in my class, my friends told that the reasons for poverty are over population, unemployment, corruption, black money, irresponsible politicians, illiteracy, etc…
The reason which I thought as the major cause for poverty is ILLITERACY. Because, when a person is educated he could gain the ability to deal with other reasons indicated above.
According to the census report of 2011, the literacy rate in INDIA is 74.06%. It is considerably less in West Bengal, Orissa & Jharkhand. The poverty level in INDIA is 27% during the year 2009. It is considerably high in the above states where the literacy rate is high. Thus we could get a clear idea that poverty depends upon the literacy rate.
How to overcome this problem?
We people used to blame others and our Government for such problems. We always used to see in a view that “What the country have done for me?” We failed to remember that “we all together form our country”. It’s the responsibility of all the educated INDIAN to take care of our people’s welfare.
We, the educated INDIANS should spread awareness about the importance of education to the illiterate people. We could also do some financial support for the education of poor people. We could teach them, educate them and make THE POVERTY-LESS EDUCATED INDIA.
Share your ideas as comment. Let the educated Indians get aware of it!!!
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