"Poverty in india has been studied …

Poverty refers to a state in which an individual is unable to fulfill even the basic necessities of life. Poverty in India has been studied from two points: urban and rural.

• In urban areas, poor people include push cart vendors, street cobblers, rag pickers, beggars etc… #they possess few assets.

# They reside in kutcha hutments with walls made of baked mud and roofs made of grass, thatch, bamboo and wood.

# The poorest of them do not even have such dwellings.

# The urban poor are largely the overflow of the rural poor who had migrated to urban was in search of alternative employment and livelihood.

• In Rural Areas, poor people include landless agriculture laborers, cultivators with very small landholdings, landless engaged in a variety of non-agriculture jobs or tenant cultivators with small land holding.

# many of the rural people are landless. Even waste land.

# Many rural people do not get to have even two meals a clay.