POVERTY-A CURSE AND STIGMA

Today a great day was observed around the day. A day to reinforce the need for a poverty-free planet, the day to again commemorate the principles against poverty which we need to take forward, today on 17-october-2014, International Day for Eradication of Poverty with the theme “Leave no one behind- think, decide and act together against extreme poverty.” The 2014 theme of the day clearly underscored the need as well as the exigency to help the upliftment of impoverished people from extreme poverty condition and to induce them in the actual world by allocating them requisite and basic facilities.

The international day for eradication of poverty was celebrated for the first time in the year 1993. In 1993, this day was deputed was the United Nations as a day to encourage people to help the paupers and destitute countries around the map of the world and to accouter them with the basic things that are indeed the right of every human being. This year too, the commemoration was done in the United Nations, New York in partnership with the International Movement ATD fourth world, the NGO Sub-committee for the Eradication of Poverty and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, supported by the Missions of France and Burkina Faso to the UN. 

Poverty is surely a reprehensible thing around the world, which leads to the slaying down of expectations, emotions, feelings and even the desire to live, of millions of people around the world. It would not be a wrong thing to quote here that poverty is actually a mass slaughterer which every year mows down million. 

The World Bank states that those living on less than $1.25 (per person) are stricken by extreme poverty and surprisingly more than a sixth of the world’s population doesn't even earn this much money per day. More than 1.4 billion of the world’s population live under this poverty line and this shows how much we need to work today.

In nations of African continent the situation of much worse. With no potable water supply and harsh diseases like AIDS and Ebola conditions of such nations have been exacerbated. With such a low income, people can’t even earn a three times meal for themselves and can hardly ever think of living even one day of their life peacefully.

On one side we have stepped on the Mars, but just like the other face of the coin, we also have people who would consider their life heaven if they just get two times meals for just one day. Though we have covered a long way, in around three decades we have helped uplifting around 15% of the world’s population out of poverty, and this surely is a great achievement. But rather than limiting or restraining ourselves, we should focus on a greater role. We should have a dream to bring about a day, where everyone would have perfect basic facilities, good education and poverty would be something primitive in this world. With advancements in technologies, we can surely cover a long distance, by helping the paupers out and to give every citizen of the world a good place to live because on this planet earth everyone has right for equitable distribution of resources and also the right to live.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI