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QUOTES
& ILLUTRATIONS
DEAR
GOVERNMENT……
" Sufficient co-operation on behalf of the government is not up to the mark which
encourages more import and less export"
"If we consider the present politicians, among 100, we will find at least 95%
corrupt and only 5% honest. And still, I am sorry to say, we consider ourselves proud to
be Indians".
 "And another
factor for the reason for poor people in India I would like to highlight here is that out
government is not good. It never stays still in our country. We are always spending money
on elections and by-elections".
"People are poor methinks, because there is no government. And if there is a
semblance of governance in the various khichdis in various states or even in Delhi, they
are manipulated by an maneuvered by the corrupt, the criminals, the corporate and hold
your breath, the World Bank!"
"Nepotism and bribery are the main problem which make the people poor because it
leads to economic weakness and waste in the country"
POPULATION
 "As the population is
increasing, jobs are becoming less and less".
"With a population explosion, the productivity of the country remains the same but
the consuming amount is increasing".
"Population is the root cause of all the other problems that leads to
poverty".
"Increasing population lowers the per capita income of the nation".
"Due to over population, our country lacks resources which give rise to
unemployment. Thus, unemployment leads to poverty".
PRICE RISE
"Frequent price rises creates an atmosphere of uncertainty, affecting the poor
the most".
"Price rise creates economic inequality among different sections of the people.
The poor become poorer".
WAR
"Vast amount of money is spent on modern arms to protect the country from a rival
one. Citizens suffer. So the countries should maintain peace".
TERRORISM
 "Terrorism in
the country is also the main cause of poverty because government is reserving highest fund
for the defence of the country".
"A lot of money day to day is wasted by the terrorism".
UNEMPLOYMENT
"Rapidly increasing population puts burden on education and training facilities of
a country. In the long run more and more untrained young men and women join the ranks of
unemployment".
"Our country is not strong enough to absorb all the unemployed and youth coming
from universities year after year".
COLONIALISM
"In 1947, british left the country. They also left behind poverty".
"India was once rich and known as the golden bird. Slowly and steadily repeated
invasions of Turks, the Mughals, the Arabs and the Mangols depleted our resources. Finally
the British drains off the last bit of the wealth that was in our possession".
CORRUPTION
"Corruption is the contagious disease
which leads to poverty"
"Corruption! Corruption! Corruption! You
go north, south, east or west, everywhere you see corruption. Suppose there is a drought
in a big village and the central government gives the state some money so that it reaches
it reaches the affected people. There is a question, DOES THIS MONEY REACH IN THE HANDS OF
THE PEOPLE EFFECTED BY DROUGHT?????…..WHY? WHY? WHY?"
THEY ARE LAZY
"Indians are lazy and do not want to work hard. They are greedy and troublesome.
Their ambitions are too high, which they cannot fulfill".
DEBT
"Debt is a major cause of individual poverty. In a country like India, debt
bondage keeps many families in poverty".
ADDICTION TO LIOUOUR
"Drug or liqueur addicts spend most of their earnings on them. Thus their families
do not get any part of their earnings and are deprived of even basic necessities of
life".
"People are addicted to drugs and spend more money than they earn which results in
their poor economic conditions".
GENDER DISCRIMINATION
"The heavy workload that girls share with their mothers abstains them from getting
educated. This in turn leads to low social, mental and emotional development of the girl
child. These girls are getting married without the awareness of the world around them,
bear many children leading to more poverty".
"Women folk living in a male dominated society were not given equal
opportunities".
"Girls are neglected and are not sent to school, mainly in villages, because their
parents think that girls have to only cook food after getting married".
THEY ARE PRIMITIVE AND
UNCIVILIZED
 "The primary cause of poverty lies in the behavior of
those who suffer from it".
"Wherever poverty prevails, it is because the people are lazy, idle, illiterate,
uncivilized, primitive and backward".
IT IS THEIR OWN FAULT
"People are poor because of their own fault like they are illiterate and cannot
understand the policies made by the government as ‘small family, happy family’
and so on and go on increasing the population. We should take strict action against
it".
URBANIZATION
"Rural areas are fast changing into urban ones. All this has adversely affected
out agricultural yield".
CASTE
"One of the factors of being poor is caste system. People of higher caste treat
lower caste people as their slaves and think that they are made for their work only".
"There are cast divisions which make our country crippled".
"I am poor
Because I was born a shudra,
Because I practice the wrong religion
And because I am a villager
Your laws ban my discrimination
But you condone it".
HMMMM……..
 "The people are poor because their requirements are never ending and the
sources to satisfy these wants are limited".
"The poor do not do family planning like the husband wants a boy, for that boy the
wife gives birth to so many girls and because of this the parents cannot even provide food
to their children".
"Today women have been given their due right to participate in the nation’s
mainstream. And thus, as far as male employment is concerned, it is adversely
affected".
"The problem of poverty becomes all the more worse because of ignorance and
tropical climate of the country".
"People are poor because they are too exploited by the rich".
"Because of socio-economic problems and lack of awareness, people are poor".
"Our country, basically being agricultural, has illiteracy. Due to illiteracy,
there are superstitions, due to superstitions there is over-population, which leads to
corruption. All these finally lead to poverty".
"Illiteracy, overpopulation, unemployment, corruption are the four evils which
makes people poor".
"Poverty – Whassat!! Give me a break. Yes that is the attitude of a rich
person for a poor person these days modern Indians are so lost in their own world that
they have forgotten about the bitter realities of life. In India, if anyone asks a rich
person he will not be able to define poverty because only a person who has experienced it
can define it".
NATURAL CALAMITIES
"Indian agriculture depends on timely rains. If the monsoons fail, people
die."
"Natural disasters like floods, earthquake and drought destroy people’s lives
and property. They become refugees and dependent on others for food and shelter".
CHILD LABOUR
 "Children, in
the age in which they have to study are doing difficult and dangerous jobs. Children are
out ‘future boat’ which now seems to be sinking".
ILLITERACY
"Poverty is a dangerous disease. Due to illiteracy, peasants who do not own any
land and work on other;s fields, cannot do farming. They cannot know about good jobs like
trading, doctory etc".
"If there are illiterate people, the country will never progress because of
certain percent who are well off will cheat or rather exploit the poor by making them do
the most difficult jobs in an industry or suppose a construction site".
"The poor quality of human capital can be judged by the high rate of illiteracy
prevalent in the country"
"Because of illiteracy, most of the people have become prey to social evils which
are marring the prosperity of the country"
"India is very poor because its people are uneducated"
LACK OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
"Our country is not fully self-sufficient in the field of science, agriculture and
industry"
"Nature has given us the resources, but the people living in the country do not
know the technology to use these resources in a better way and get the income to improve
their life"
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