Control Poverty in India

Poverty is the state of poor people. It indicates a condition in which a person cannot afford basic needs for survival such as food, shelter, healthcare and education. India has the world's largest number of poor people living in a country. Out of its total population of more than 1 billion, 350 to 400 million people are living below the poverty line. Although, the large number of people in our country have escaped poverty in recent years.
But people who have escaped poverty are not yet economically secure, and living precariously close to the poverty line. As per Mr. Dev Prakash Pathak (An Entrepreneur and Social activist), the poverty challenge in India still remains broad, and sometimes contradictory. Poverty has a grip on a much larger proportion of India's people. Our recent research highlights some key requirements for sustainable poverty reduction and shared prosperity in India going forward:
 Accelerating rural poverty reduction. The progress needs to focus on the people living in rural areas. Our research shows that this is not just about agricultural growth, which has long been considered the key driver of poverty reduction. In fact, rural India is not predominantly agricultural, and shares many of the economic conditions of smaller urban areas as well. Capitalizing on increasing connectivity between rural and urban areas, and between the agriculture, industry and services sectors, has been effective in the past two decades and holds promise for the future.