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EDITORIAL

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World over, the burning issues is poverty alleviation issues and challenges that emanates from

the global world. Researches are being made across the globe in these vulnerable areas with a

view to delivering satisfactory solutions to the poverty issues challenges arising out of them.

This book is a compliment in this direction.

This book focuses on the various issues through its 27 chapters, those are concern with poverty

alleviation, issues, impact of various policies, poverty inequality, poverty among women,

poverty eradication through SHG’s and micro finance institutions, social capital and household

workers in rural Punjab, rural poverty in Indian context, poverty reduction through horticulture

multi-pronged strategy to alleviate the poverty in India, challenges the repeated natural disasters

in mountains, poverty alleviation through tourism, migration, security and poverty (In special

context of metro cities construction workers)

And other major issues of poverty in India. It was 1991, when the GOI took the initiative for

economic reforms in India by introduction the Liberalization Privatization and Globalization.

This is the historical reference point from which we could look back at the various reforms in the

Indian Economy.

The President's address to Parliament has sought to put rest charges that the Narendra Modi

government is pro-corporate, by unveiling pro-poor plans for eliminating poverty, fighting food

inflation and providing urban facilities in rural areas.

The blueprint of the government for the coming months also has a contingency plan for sub-

normal monsoon, crop insurance and reforming the Public Distribution System. The thrust of the

President's speech was Modi's economy revival plans and how this would help the middle class

and the poor by creating more jobs and giving a boost to growth and development.

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The slogans given by Modi during the election campaign, "Ek Bharat, Shresht Bharat (One India,

Great India)", "Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas (Taking all together, progress of all) were highlighted

in the speech. But the running theme of the speech was the fight to eradicate poverty and

improve the condition of the poor.

"Poverty has no religion, hunger has no creed, and despair has no geography. The greatest

challenge before us is to end the curse of poverty in India. My government will not be satisfied

with mere "poverty alleviation"; and commits itself to the goal of 'poverty elimination',"

Mukherjee said. This book also focuses on the Modi Mantra to create magical reforms in Rural

Bharat and Chinese strategy to transform the Chinese rural sector.

All possible efforts have been made in this book to satisfy the readers with intellectual inputs

with adequate justification done of the themes regarding to Poverty Alleviation in India: Issues

and challenges. This present book tries its best to incorporate research papers, articles of valued

contributors which throw sufficient enlighten on major issues and challenges of poverty

alleviation in Indian context. We hope, like the first edited book, the present book will also gain

the appreciation among the readers adding to the motivation of the contributors and the editors to

continue their efforts towards catering to the needs of the academia.

Editor

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Dr. Dhiresh Kulshrestha

Associate Professor & Head-Department of Economics,

Central University of Haryana

Mahendergarh- HR

Email: drdhireshkulshrestha@gmail.com

Co-Editor

Dr. Veerandra Singh Matsaniya

Assistant Professor –Department of Economics,

Dr. H.S. Gour Central University Sagar (MP)