AN ANALYTICAL STUDY ON THE ROLE OF NGOs IN THE POVERTY REDUCTION OF INDIA
Keywords:
Poverty, NGOs, Poverty alleviation/eradication, upliftment, empowermentAbstract
Poverty reduction has been declared as the most important Millennium Development Goal (MDG) by the Government of India (GOI). It has been one of the major objectives of planned development in India. And since Independence the GOI formulated many economic strategies for planned economic growth with two objectives viz., ensuring economic growth with equity and social justice. Non Government Organisations (NGOs) are non-profit organisations constituted with an aim to uplift the poor, marginalized, unprivileged, underprivileged, impoverished, downtrodden groups. NGOs participate actively in various political, economical and social matters and work on their own, in conjunction with individual governments or with international organizations. These groups were expected to show how village and indigenous resources could be used and how human resources, rural skills and local knowledge, grossly underutilized at present could be used for their own development. Over the last two decades NGOs are working basically to eradicate poverty and for women empowerment. In the recent years they have designed their programs to address the strategic needs of poor with a view to providing basic social services as well as fulfilling practical needs. They are playing very significant role in uplifting the poor with their innovative progarmmes. On this backdrop, the present study explores the role and their performance of NGOs in poverty eradication.
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