International Science Community Association International Research Journal of Social Sciences 2319 8 2 2019 04 14 An analysis of Government schemes on poverty in India 27 30 EN Kajenthini Ganeshamoorthy 1 Department of Economics, Faculty of Commerce and Management, Eastern University, Sri Lanka Bedadyuti Sahoo 1 School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar-24, Odisha, India Sasmita Pattnaik 2 Department of History, Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Ruchika Patra 3 Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Ibrahim Umar Bambale 1 Department of Entrepreneurship, SICHST, Makarfi, Nigeria Abubakar Isah Funtua 2 Department of Economics and Development Studies, Federal University, Dutsin-Ma, Nigeria Elsie Mishra 1 Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha-769008, India Tariq Ahmad Malik 1 Jiwaji University, Gwalior, MP, India Ajaz Ahmad Dass 2 RTMNU, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India Suresh Sachdeva 3 Dept. of Economics, MLB Govt. College of Excellence, Gwalior, MP, India > Short Review Paper 2018 8 28 2019 04 14 The Government of India since its inception of independence started the different schemes to alleviate poverty from the country. Poverty not merely considered as lack of sufficient income. It is a socio-economic phenomenon of a society who are not able to satisfy their basic requirements of livelihood. It badly disturbs human well-being, adeptness and efficiency which distresses the people from money. It denies the basic needs of living – bread, dressing, shelter, health and education to a section of people. Mankind expresses discomforts and despairs when these basic comforts are not obtainable. It is commonly said that those who are not able to touch the least ingestion standard should be considered as poor. The contradiction of opportunities and gratification of human prospective is poverty. The whole world is unable to alleviate the poverty despite of introducing hundreds of programmes. India too is facing the problem in spite of growth in various sectors. Poverty along with inequality are rise in the world from decades. The paper discusses the alleviation of poverty through different schemes of government since independence. Copyright@ International Science Community Association