The three dimensional attack on poverty adopted by the Government has not succeeded in poverty alleviation in India. Comment. A

Question

The three dimensional attack on poverty adopted by the Government has not succeeded in poverty alleviation in India. Comment. 

Answer 1

The three dimensional approach of economic growth, employment generation and alleviating poverty could not achieve the desired result. Although there has been a reduction in the percentage of absolute poor in some of the states still the poor people lack basic amenities, literacy and nourishment. This is because of:

• Unequal distribution of land and other assets among rich and poor farmers.
• Improper implementation of poverty alleviation programmes by ill-motivated and inadequately trained bureaucrats further worsened the situation. 
• Corruption along with inclination towards interest of elites led to an efficient and misallocation of scarce resources