1. Illiteracy level is a situation where parents are unable to send their children.

2. Lack of access to healthcare is a situation in which people cannot afford treatment.

3. Lack of access ton drinking water means lack of safe and clean drinking water facilities.

4. Lack of job opportunity means no availability of regular job opportunity.

5. Lack of sanitation means cleaning of our surrounding. 

1. There is also inequality of incomes within a family.  

2. In poor families all suffer, but some suffer more than others.

3.  Women, elderly people and female infants are systematically denied equal access to resources available to the family.

4. Therefore women, children and old people are poorest of the poor 

1. The proportion of poor people is not the same in every state. Although state level poverty has witnessed a secular decline from the levels of early seventies.

2. Recent estimate show while the all India HCR was 21.9% n 2011-12 states like Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Odisha had above all India poverty level.

3. Bihar and Odisha continue to be the two poorest states with poverty ratio of 33.7 and 37.6 percent respectively.

4. Along with rural poverty, urban poverty is also high in Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. 

1. According to this concept, poverty must be seen in poor surroundings with other people, excluded from enjoying social equality of better-of people in better surroundings.

2. Social Exclusion can be both a cause as well as a consequence of poverty in the usual sense.

3. Broadly, it is the process in which individuals or groups are excluded from facilities, benefits and opportunities that others enjoy.

1. Poverty also means hunger and lack of shelter.

2. Lack of clean water and sanitation.  

3. It is a situation where parents are unable to send their children to schools.  

4. lack of health facilities, lack of regular job and  opportunities,

5. Non availability of safe drinking water, sanitation facilities etc. 

1. Poverty is caused due to many reasons there for social scientists also study many other factors besides income and consumptions. 

2. Social Scientists study illiteracy level, malnutrition, ill-health, lack of health facilities, lack of job opportunities, non availability of safe drinking water, sanitation facilities etc.

3. Thus, the social scientists take a broad view of poverty and its cause. 

1. Economic growth widens opportunities and provides the resources needed to invest in human development.

2. This also encouraged people to send their children, including the girl child to the school.  

3. People also take care of the health of the children.

4. By getting an education children become good human resources and an asset of the family. 

1. A person is considered poor if his or her income or consumption levels falls below a given ‘minimum level’ necessary to fulfill basic needs.

2. What is necessary to satisfy basic needs is different at different times and in different countries.

3. That is why; poverty line may vary with time and place. Each country uses an imaginary line that is considered appropriate for its existing level of development and its accepted minimum social norms.  

4. For example, a person not having a car in the USA may be considered poor. But, in India, owning of a car is still considered a luxury.

5. While determining the poverty line in India, a minimum level of food requirement, clothing, footwear, fuel and light, educational and medical requirement, etc. are determined for subsistence.