growth and
service centres for the rural hinterland. The phenomenon of
poverty which is common to all developing countries has to
be tackled ... rural to the urban areas
being a reflection of the colossal poverty existing in the
rural areas. The rural poverty cannot, however, be
eliminated
population are today living a sub human existence in
conditions of object poverty; utter grinding poverty bas
broken their back and sapped their moral fibre ... peculiar socio economic
conditions prevailing in the country where there is
considerable poverty, illiteracy and ignorance obstructing
and impeding accessibility to the judicial process
Nehru Rozgar Yojna", for
intensive employment in backward districts where acute
poverty and unemployment prevailed. Later on, all the
Schemes were merged ... State to provide income for those rural
poor who were below the poverty line and particularly during
the periods when they were without any source
social order and to overpower the
battle for abolition of basic poverty by the basic structure
'misslle.
[889 E-H; 890A]
6.2 Right ... India for ever. The whole adventure of the
Constitution is to remove poverty and in that process remove
concentration of
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property
agricultural
indebtedness and reduction of one of the important causes of
poverty, is undoubtedly in public interest and the
restriction must be presumed ... thereby secure the common good, of
the people living in object poverty, clearly fulfils the
directives in Arts. 38 and 39(b) of the Constitution
Indian rural society that one
may, without hesitation, say that if poverty be the cause,
caste is the primary index of social backwardness, so that ... large economic backwardness must
be the load-star. [389 F]
Chronic poverty is the bane of Indian Society. Market
economy and money spinning culture
referred to.
(4)The test of poverty is not the determining factor of
social backwardness. [768D]
M.R. Balaji & Ors. v. State of Mysore ... referred to.
(5)A division between the population on the ground of
poverty that the people in the urban areas are not poor and
that
SC1531 (183)
ACT:
Constitution of India, Art.21 - Accused on account of
poverty unable to afford legal representation - Duty of
court to inform him that ... admittedly unable to
afford legal representation on account of his poverty and
the result was that he could not cross-examine some of the
witnesses
test. Just
as caste is not the sole or dominant test, similarly poverty
is not the decisive and determining factor of social back-
wardness ... dominant test. Social backwardness is in the
ultimate analysis the result of poverty to a large extent.
Social backwardness which results from poverty is likely
vast majority of Us people live in utter ignorance and poverty. The under-privileged backward classes must also be the recipients of all the benefits ... that this great country affords for its people. For removing poverty and for bringing an all-round, all pervasive and all-embracing progress as also
