India no longer home largest poor people free#
India no longer home largest poor people for free#
In addition, 1 kg of preferred pulse (based on regional preference) will be given for free to each household under this Food scheme for the next three months.Everyone under this scheme will get 5 kg of wheat and rice for free in addition to the current 5 kg allocation for the next 3 months.About two-thirds of population will be covered under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (Food scheme).When the money ran out, their son was sent back to the government clinic - where he died a few days later. As he was very weak, Pratima and her husband had to find an incubator in a private clinic and ran up a huge debt in order to pay for treatment. Her baby girl was already dead but her newborn son was still alive. She was compelled to wait for hours before an operation was performed.
In the eighth month of her pregnancy, she experienced severe contractions and went to the primary health center. Though there is a public primary health center barely 500 meters from her house, it is not equipped to provide antenatal care. When she became pregnant, Pratima wasn’t able to get the maternal health services she needed, or the correct advice to prepare for a safe pregnancy and childbirth. Pratima lost her twin babies through delays and poor treatment after she gave birth at her local government clinic. The family belongs to a marginalized group and lives in one of Patna’s urban slums. Pratima, 32, lives with her husband and 14-year-old daughter in the city of Patna, in Bihar state in eastern India. It would take 941 years for a minimum wage worker in rural India to earn what the top paid executive at a leading Indian garment company earns in a year. 63 million of them are pushed into poverty because of healthcare costs every year - almost two people every second. Many ordinary Indians are not able to access the health care they need. Between 20, India is estimated to produce 70 new millionaires every day.īillionaires' fortunes increased by almost 10 times over a decade and their total wealth is higher than the entire Union budget of India for the fiscal year 2018-19, which was at INR 24422 billion. Their number has increased from only 9 in 2000 to 101 in 2017. 73% of the wealth generated in 2017 went to the richest 1%, while *670 million Indians who comprise the poorest half of the population saw only a 1% increase in their wealth.
The top 10% of the Indian population holds 77% of the total national wealth.
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