Which are the problems still being faced in India relating to poverty? Why poverty reduction will make better progress in the next ten to fifteen years?

(i) (a) Wide disparities in poverty are visible between rural and urban areas and among different states.
(b) Certain social and economic groups are more vulnerable to poverty.
(ii) Poverty reduction will make better progress in the next ten to fifteen years due to the following reasons:
(a) Higher economic growth.
(b) Increasing stress on universal free elementary education.
(c) Declining population growth.
(d) Increasing empowerment of the woman and the economically weaker sections of society.