Poverty in India: The challenges and prospects

India is a developing country. It has so many challenges to meet to save its people from various types ofproblems and poverty happens to be the most challenging problem. According to World Poverty Clock (MPC), the number of people who are living in extreme poverty is 97,697,747 (97.7 million) or roughly 6% of the population. There are 44,806,455 males and 52,891,292 females impacted by poverty in India. Females are more affected than males (India Poverty Statistics, 2021). There are numerous evidences that poverty exerts numerous negative effects on children, families and individuals which can be noticed from different points of view such as high infant mortality, malnutrition, child labour, lack of education, child marriage and HIV/AIDS, imbalance between imports and exports, unemployment and so on. The most of the states of India are under its adverse impact and some of the states are worst affected. This paper deals with the above dimensions of poverty in India and underlines the strategies to meet the challenges caused by the poverty, so that suitable programmes could be planned and executed for the welfare of our people and enhancing their well-being.