How to Root Out Poverty?

How to root out poverty?houses, living under the open sky, are starving,
In India even the state is anot adopting rightare ill and cannot get proper treatment because
methods of rooting out poverty. We have seentreatment is too costly, they are obliged to give
that the state gives mid-day meal to the poorbribes and all that. All these evils were present
students, free books, free stationery items,when we were slaves and we were dragged into
warm clothes, holding free medical camps,war for independence on the assurance that we
sometime poor people are allowed loans at lowershall be establishing 'Ram Rajaya' after the
rates, sometime poor people are given grains atindependence. But all these assurances had been
lower rates, some time poor people are givenleft out and nothing towards that direction has
work for some days in a year, sometime poorbeen done by the people who occupied seats of
people are given some pension and all that but allpower from the British.
these methods have failed and the people of IndiaThe people coming in power are not really
are still counted as poor people.representatives of the people and that is the
It is an old saying that instead of giving a fish inreasoan they are not working for the people of
charity, we should teach the beggar to catch theIndia. It is a strange type of democrtacy where
fish himself. The state has failed to provide properthe people in power are really representatives of
education, proper training and aproper adjustmentthe few and they work for the few and that is
at work and that is the reason people are stillthe reason the majority of the people are left
poor and therefore, they accept the alms givenbehind and ignored. If this system goes on, more
by the state. We have wasted sixty years givingand more people shall be turning poor and illiterate
false slogans to the people and they are giving usand we shall never be able to establish India of
votes, but till now people are illiterate, untraianed,dreams of Mahatma Gandhi.
unemployed, beggars, wearing rags, living in mud