Poverty in India : Issues and Challenges

Contents: Preface. 1. Poverty Line Fluctuates with Conflicting Data: Where is the Remedy?/Sunita Mishra. 2. Liberalization and Poverty Problem and Solution/Manjeet Kaur. 3. Poverty: Role of Government in Poverty Alleviation in India/Anuradha Gupta. 4. Economic Liberalization and Rural Poverty/Radha Rani Gupta. 5. Extent and Measurement of poverty in India/B.S. Yadav and Meena. 6. An Analysis of Pattern and Magnitude of Rural Poverty during Post-Economic Reforms Period/Aijaz and S.K. Sharma.7. Role of Mnrega in Poverty Alleviation/Farhat Yaqub and J.P. Singh. 8. Poverty Alleviation: A Challenge/Mridula Singh and Atul Kumar Singh. 9. Economic Reforms and Poverty in India/Arun Prabha Choudhary. 10. Extent and Measurement of Poverty in Indian Rural Economic Environment/Sidharth Jain and Rakesh Kumar Mishra. 11. Poverty and Sustainable Development: Triangle between Population, Development and Environment/Sandeep Shandilya. 12. Poverty Alleviation Programmes in India/Mukesh Kumar Sharma and Shubhika. 13. Poverty in the Indian Perspective/Asmita Srivastava. 14. Impact of Poverty on Indian Economy: An Analytical Study/Rajeev Sharma. 15. Role of Government in Poverty Alleviation/Ruchi Sharma. 16. Economic Liberalization and Poverty Alleviation Lessons from other Countries/Vishal Dubey and Anoop Kumar.17. Role of Government and Poverty Alleviation with Special Reference of Bharat Nirman Yojana/Hemlata and Rajveer Singh. 18. Economic Liberalization and Indian Economy/Ritika Bhatt an Anshu Bhatt. 19. Role of NREGA in Poverty Alleviation/Shalini Agrawal. 20. Government Efforts for Alleviation of Poverty in Aligarh District/Kamna Singhal. Index.

This book brings into clear focus on Poverty in India: Issues and Challenges i.e. Pattern and Magnitude of Poverty Extent and measurement of Poverty Strategy and Programme etc. Some useful suggestions have also been given in this book for Alleviation of poverty. This book constitutes a rich contribution to an issue of a considerable importance. Therefore it is expected that this book will be highly useful for policy planners economists researchers and students of Social Science etc.