Poverty

Date : 14.5.2020
Sub  : Economics
Day  : 4
Time : 10:45am -11:25am
Period : 5
CLASS : 12

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Learning Objectives:

By the end of the lesson, you will be able to

* revise all concepts pertaining to Poverty

* complete a written assignment on the same 

SUMMARY:
Poverty is the inability to fulfill the minimum requirement of life like food, clothing, housing education and health facilities etc.
Relative poverty refers to poverty of people in comparison to other people in different region or nations.
Absolute poverty refers to total number of people living below the poverty line.
Absolute poverty is measured on the basis of two criteria:-
1. Minimum Calories Consumption Criteria
2. Minimum Consumption Expenditure Criteria
Poverty line refers to that line which expresses per capita average monthly expenditure that is essentially required by the people to satisfy their minimum needs.
Estimation of poverty line:
Calories based estimation— For rural area intake calorie was estimated at 2,400 calories and for urban area it is 2,100 calories,
In 1999-2000 new ways of measuring started i.e. monthly per capita expenditure–it estimates for rural area as consumption worth Rs. 816 per persons and for urban areas it is Rs. 1000
Approaches to combat poverty
1. Enhancing Economic Growth
2. Specific Programmes for Poverty Alleviation
3. Fulfilling Minimum Needs of the poor

Causes of Poverty:
1. Rapid increase in population.
2. Low level of National product.
3. Rise in price.
4. Unemployment.
5. Low rate of growth.
6. Capital deficiency.
7. Rural Indebtedness
8. Exploitation under British rule
9. Low education
10 Inflationary Pressure
11.High Level of Migration from  rural areas
12 Failure to implement land reforms.
PAPs
1. Food for work programme.
2. Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana.
3. Pradhan Mantri Gramodoya Yojana.
4. Sompoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojana.
5. Swarn Jayanti Shahri Rozgar Yojana.
6. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.,etc
Programme to help elderly poor & destitute women:-
1. National social assistance programme (National Old Age Pension Scheme, National Family Benefit Scheme)
 2. Annapurna Yojana
3. Jan Dhan Yojana

Let's do a few  questions from the NCERT. 
Use the following pdf link to study the chapter↓

(CH4 - Subhash Dey)  : Full Poverty S. Dey

You may also use the pdf link for the NCERT text ↓

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17i97Wa4KuzmQ-LR2U41bdte-ChTr5vH6/view?usp=sharing

 Assignment (NCERT questions)

1. Why is the calorie-based norm not adequate to identify the poor? (3) 

2. Why are employment generation programmes important in poverty alleviation in India? (4)
3. How can creation of income earning assets address the problem of poverty? (4)
4. What was the three dimensional attack on poverty adopted by the government? Comment on whether it has succeeded in poverty alleviation in India or not. (6)

To get a better understanding of the chapter please go through the video link given below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LYcgnixAYs