Suppose you are a resident of a village, suggest a few measures to tackle the problem of poverty.

Being a resident of a village, I would suggest the following measures to tackle the problem of poverty:   

1. Identification of poor.  

2. Generating employment opportunities for the identified poor.  

3. Free access to education and health care facilities.  

4. Establishment of small scale industries.  

5. Redistribution of income-earning assets.

6. Encouraging poor for their active participation  

7. Organizing Training Camps and Night Classes for imparting vocational training to unskilled laborers.  

8. Advancing financial and technical assistance to establish small enterprises.  

9. Upgradation of agricultural practices to raise productivity  

10. Enforcement of measures to check population growth.      

11. Development of infrastructure.  

12. Motivating the poor to acquire skills, information and knowledge.  

• Eradicate illiteracy.
• Modern and Scientific farming methods.
• Reduction in population growth rate.
• Creation of bigger better market for agricultural products.

Some measures that I can suggest to tackle the problem of poverty are as follows : 

(a) Spending on human capital formation especially in the form of education and health. 

(b) Making people aware of the various government programmes that are in operation. 

(c) Providing easy loans for starting self-employment. 

(d) Keeping a control on population growth.

If we support in implementing the following programmes successfully, we can easily eradicate the poverty:

• Swamajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) 
• Swamajayanthi Shahari RozgarYojana (SJSRY) 
• Pradhana Manthri Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) 
• National Food for Work Programme (NFWP) 
• Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) 
• Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGP)
• Public Distribution System (PDS) 
• Integrated Child Development Scheme (LCDS) 
• Mid-day Meals Scheme 
• Pradhana Manthri Gram Sadak Yojana 
• Indira Awas Yojana 
• Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana.

1. Swamajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) 

2. Swamajayanthi Shahari RozgarYojana (SJSRY) 

3. Pradhana Manthri Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) 

4. National Food for Work Programme (NFWP) 

5. Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana ( SGRY) 

6. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MGNREGP) 

7. Public Distribution System (PDS) 

8. Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) 

9. Mid-day Meals Scheme 

10. Pradhana Manthri Gram Sadak Yojana 

11. Indira Awas Yojana 

12. Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana.

Following measures have been taken by the Government to remove poverty under five year plan: 

1. Integrated rural development programme: 

With a view to remove poverty in rural areas and making provision for full employment under this programme, attempts are being made to provide more employment by developing agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries, small scale, and cottage industries etc.,

2. Jawahar Rozsar Yojana:

It was launched in 1989. Its aim was to provide employment to at least one member of a IPUC Economics INDIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT rural poor family for 50 to 100 days in a year.

3. Jawahar Gram Samriddhi Yojana (JGSY):

It was launched on 1st April 1999.

It has two main objectives:

1. Creation of durable productive community assets at the village level.

2. Generation of supplementary employment for the unemployed poor in rural areas.

4. Swarnaiavanthi Gram Swaroiear Yoiana (SGST):

It was started on 1^st April 1999. Its aims are: 

Focussed approach to poverty alleviation. 

Capitalising advantages of group lending 

Overcoming the problems.

5. Employment Assurance Scheme: 

The programme is presently being implemented in all rural blocks.

Creation of additional wage employment opportunities during the period of acute shortage for the rural poor living below the poverty line. 

Creation of durable community, social and economic assets for sustained economic development.

6. Pradhan Mantri Gramodava Yojana (PMGY):

It was introduced in 2000-2001 focussing on village development in five critical areas, health, primary education, drinking water, housing and rural roads with the objectives of improving the quality of life or people in the rural areas.

7. Sampoorna Grameen Roisar Yojana (SGRY): 

The scheme aims at providing wage employment in rural areas as also food, security, creation durable, community, social and economic assets. 

8. Grameena Roisar Guarantee Scheme:

It was launched in February 2005 to provide work for 100 days a year in rural areas.