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Saturday, December 30, 2017

Let there be war against poverty

India like rest of the world is changing fast. There is growth but this growth has led to increasing gap between higher section of society and under privileged section.

This disparity is the biggest injustice as well as cause of concern. On one hand people are living a lavish life and looking forward to smart homes and robot on the other hand people are struggling to find two basic meals. This disparity will lead to frustration and many problems including financial and social.

The time has come to declare a full scale war on poverty. And we must start from the poorest of poor.

Mission : War On Poverty

Government is doing and will do what it can to eliminate poverty. But that will take long time and is not enough. We, the people of India, must come together and declare war against poverty.

Philanthropy is rising and people want to help real needy people. This is seen as help to NGO, helping people on road, donations to religious places etc. But this is not well organized and big part of this useful money is going waste. In addition people would like to help more if they are sure that their money is being utilized for real needy people.

To do this we must identify and enlist those at lowest ladder.

- Identify and enlist poorest of poor families.
- Select Aadhaar Card of head of family and bank account related to it.
- Create a website and app for all these families starting and number them starting from lowermost to higher.
- Fix a bare minimum amount for basic livelihood, education, healthcare, sanitation and other most basic necessities.
- Let people / group of people / organizations adopt family / families and pay that minimum amount per month. People will have right to opt out of adoption any time and concerned family will go back to pool for adoption.
- Part of this amount can go directly to beneficiary family for food and other basic needs. Another part must be pooled to provide healthcare, education, skill training by specialized NGO along with government schemes. For example government can enlist poorest of poor families and similarly poorest of poor villages. Government can then along with NGO's target such families and villages and lift them out of poverty.
- Skill training and small scale business development must be essential part of this scheme so that once a family is out of poverty trap it does not fall back into it.

Nation can thrive only when there is harmony. Economic harmony is crucial for creating overall harmony including social harmony. People will have less and more money depending on their ability to earn but no one should suffer from lack of basic amenities and lack of opportunity to fight and rise.

Let us be at war against poverty.