Rural Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion: Dimensions, Processes and Policies 1

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Dev, S. Mahendra
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Poverty alleviation has been on the national policy agenda for more than 50 years. As early as 1938, the Indian National Congress constituted a National Planning Committee (NPC) headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, which had declared that the social objective should be "to ensure an adequate standard of living for the masses, in other words, to get rid of the appalling poverty of the people". The importance of reduction in poverty, provision of other basic needs and equitable development has been emphasised in all the five year plans since independence particularly since the 5th Five-Year Plan. The government has a two-pronged approach, viz, promoting economic growth and direct action towards poverty alleviation.
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