Non-earning members are turning the society more poor

 Inspitwe of all our efforts and efforts made by the government after independence, the people of India could not root out poverty.  In spite of this fact, some people are talking of unexpected standards by 2047. We know that till all work and earn, poverty cannot be rooted out and as far as India is concerned, we hae to bear burden of a large nmber of people who are living in earnings of others and earning members of the society are bound to bear all this because of our traditions and have accepted these burdens as duty of the society.

     The unlearning members of society are identified as under--

1.          Beggers who have adopted this line and now all their children are bound to follow this line.

2.            Saints and Sadhus

3.            Elders like mother, father, all elders who cannot work and earn and have got no pension to live on, are burden on the children.

4.            Widow daughtrers and sisters who are not maintained by in laws come down back in the family and spend the remaining part of their lives as burden on the family.

5.            Handicapped children.

6.            Unemployed children.

7.            Members from the family who had been punished for some crime often do not get suitable employment and they become burden on the family.  Even members dismissed from government service because of a crime, do not et even pension and turn burden on the family.

8.            Members of the family who have turned drug addicts doot earn and they too become burden on the family.

9.            People getting low wages or having low inome start continuing turning down more poor and generate next generation as poor and one family turns two families poor in one generation, thus number of poor continue increasing.

10.   When an earning member is given jail term, the family especially children suffer in health, education and traiing the basic causes of poerty.

           Somany other causes of poverty are traditional and since most of these defects are still available here in India, we cannot claim proper development and complete development by 2047.

           Even countries which are calling themselves rich and developed, could not remove all these defects and had to give specific reliefs to these sections of the society and because of these coverages, they are calling themselves properly developed societies.  We too are having such reliefs, but those are on lower side, hence, most of the people are still poor.

     Advocate  Dalip Singh Wasan,