India is producing sufficient foods to feed its one billion people but still People are dying because of Hunger and Malnutrition. A United Nations report has exposed the current situation of poverty in India.
The report has put a question against the government’s claim about the reduction in the poverty rate from 36% to 26% in the seven years between 1993-2000.
Poverty is still concentrating in Bihar, UP, Orissa, MP, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. The Report has criticized India for the rising number of farmers’ suicide too.
The Economic reforms have benefited Middle and upper class people in India but the poor people have suffered a constant decline in the living standards. The new export-oriented or market-oriented economy has concentrated mostly on cash crops and has reduced the cultivation of grains, pulses and millets.
The cash crops require costly seeds and fertilizer that has pushed so many farmers into heavy debt. They do not get good money from the crops and commit suicides. More than 10,000 farmers have been committed suicides since 2004.
