• Shiv Prasad Thakur

The trends in the incidence and pattern of poverty in India since the 1970s. India being one of the ten fastest growing economies of the world, it is home to over a third of the world’s poor people. Several features of poverty in India stand out. First, poverty is getting concentrated in the poorer States. In terms of absolute numbers, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand account for around 27 per cent of the country’s population but 30 per cent of India’s poor lived there in 1973-1974, which has increased to over 41 per cent by 2005. Second, more than three-fourths of the poor live in rural areas. Third, more than three-fourths of the rural poor depend on agriculture. Agricultural growth will therefore have greatest potential of poverty reduction. Fourth, poverty has many social dimensions. There has been hardly any decline in poverty for the scheduled tribe households, almost half of them continue to be below the poverty line. Fourth, poverty is intimately connected with vulnerability and shocks. Severe and chronic deprivation in India is compounded by general uncertainty with respect to livelihood and life, which threatens an even wider section of the population than might be counted as poor. Poverty is an extremely complex phenomenon, which manifests itself in a range of overlapping and interwoven economic, political and social deprivations. These include lack of assets, low income levels, hunger, poor health, insecurity, physical and psychological hardship, social exclusion, degradation and discrimination, and political powerlessness and disarticulation. Therefore, policy instruments should be designed to address not only the low income and consumption aspect of poverty, but also the complex social dimensions.

Poverty, Tribal women, Human Poverty Index, Capability Poverty Measure, Poverty Alleviation Programme.

"IMPACT OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMMES ON RURAL TRIBAL WOMEN", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.2287-2292, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905U22.pdf

"IMPACT OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMMES ON RURAL TRIBAL WOMEN", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp2287-2292, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905U22.pdf