CRORES OF HOUSEHOLDS IN INDIA UNDER UTTER PENURY
SITUATION IN URBAN AREAS IS WORSE THAN RURAL PEOPLE
2021-09-21 10:51
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Crores of households in India, both in urban and rural areas, have nothing that we call asset, neither physical nor financial. They have only their bodies and lives that they somehow carry on. They don’t have even an address since they don’t have even land or house of their own, and hence there is no question of their access to social security programmes. At best they receive a little charity from the charitable. Urban areas are worse with about 2 per household in this category while in rural areas the percentage is about 0.6. About 14.6 per cent household in urban areas have no physical asset, while 5.3 per cent has no financial asset. In rural areas, 2.5 per cent do not have any physical asset, and 3.4 per cent do not have any financial asset.