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                                                                                                CH-3 Poverty as a Challenge                                                                   Summary  We see poverty all around us. In fact, every fourth person in India is poor This means, roughly 270 million (or 27 crore) people in India live in poverty 2011-12. This also means that India has the largest single concentration of the poor in the world.   The following issues related to poverty:   • Landlessness  • Unemployment  • Size of families  • Illiteracy  • Poor health/malnutrition  • Child labour  • Helplessness Vulnerability Vulnerability to poverty is a measure, which describes the greater probability of certain communities (say, members of a backward caste) or individuals (such as a widow or a physically handicapped person) of becoming, or remaining, poor in the coming years. Social exclusion   poverty must be seen in terms of the poor having to live only in a poor surrounding wit