Recommendations on Poverty Alleviation

On the basis of the analysis made in this study and review of government plans and programmes the following important recommendations have been suggested for poverty alleviation.

• The interrelationship between population and poverty suggests that a change from large to small household size, norms and consequently reduction of dependency ratio are important approaches for poverty alleviation.
• The equity and redistribution aspects should be the main focus of almost all policy issues such as agricultural growth, industrial development, employment generation, creation of educational facilities, rural development etc. so socio-economic equity, redistribution of assets and providing access to resources appear to be a basic precondition for lifting a society out of poverty trap.
• Intensive use of agricultural land is an essential strategy for alleviation of rural poverty. Spread of HYV crops, modern technology, expansion of landless- managed irrigation schemes, adoption of modern inputs etc are also important strategies for higher production and alleviation of rural poverty.
• Special emphasis could also be given on the development of basic need goods industries in order to create multiplier effect on rural income. in the rural industrial sector could be intensified, there would some expansion of job opportunity of poor.
• Special programmes for asset forming, self-employment opportunities in non-formal activities like manufacturing, fishers, livestock, social forestry trade etc can be implemented under various institutional arrangements with inputs support like credit training and expansion support services for income generation and thereby help in reducing poverty.
• As human capital development is an important precondition for poverty alleviation through its impact on production and development process, meaningful linkage between formal and non-formal education should be interwoven to cover the large number of people in rural areas. 
• Fiscal transfer from the center to local government is needed in order to enable the letter to undertake such economic activities as a industrial development, modernization of agriculture, improved infrastructure and trained and skilled manpower of backward region. This would reduce interregional differences in incidence of poverty.
• A kind of safety need for the poor is to be created through various capabilities- rising programmes, targeted self employment schemes, expansion of landless- managed irrigation schemes for income support for poor female headed households etc. Both Government and NGOs are to be involved in implementing such programmes of poverty alleviation. 
• To alleviate poverty, it is necessary to allocate public resources in favour of the rural agro related programmes in a pronounced manner. 
• For implementation of anti-poverty strategies over a time spectrum, The industrial planning machineries as well as political, economic, legal and social system including the channels of production and distribution need appropriate restructuring and strengthening

Poverty alleviation is burning issue in our country. From the above analysis, it was observed that incidence of poverty was closely and inversely associated with education as well as basic needs. Poverty decreases with the increases of education level. It is also observed that education had tremendous effect on raising income, quality of life status and reducing the dependency ratio. These phenomena call for the strategies for eradication of illiteracy through large-scale informal and vocational training and mass literacy programmes along with the formal primary education. There are also formidable needs for adult as well as technical education to develop manpower with technical skill for technological transformation, socio-economic advancement and poverty alleviation.