An Overview of Poverty Eradication Programmes in India

Poverty is a social phenomenon in which a section of society is unable to fulfil even its basic necessities of life. Government of India launched several poverty eradication programmes to create assets that benefit the poor and by raising the productivity of the poor through education, public health and other human resource related measures. This paper examines the overviews of poverty eradication programmes implemented in India. From the study, it is clear that the Government have been attempting the eradication of the poverty through multi dimensional approaches. Even though the Government plays a major role the implementation of the programmes the success yet vests with the public private partnership where the role and commitment of the private beneficiaries without whom the projects would not success. Recently the NGO's and other forms of the facilitators are playing major role in coordinating the programmes through formation of SHG's. Still the way to go is long and achievements to be made are immense. Further integration of various projects is essential along with the decentralisation of the powers. The schemes are executed by the Government Bureaucrats which needs to be changed to the hands of beneficiary organisations to harvest the maximum potential benefits to the vulnerable section of the society. Proper implementation of programmes is important to achieve the specific set objectives rather than the numbers and huge financial allocation in the present era of economic development.