It is necessary to sensitize the government officials to be specially sympathetic to the poor people. Why and in what way?

There are a number of programmes and schemes to alleviate poverty, but hunger, malnourishment, illiteracy and lack of basic amenities continue to be a common feature in many parts of India. Though policy towards poverty alleviation has involved in a progressive manner but the benefits of these programmes did not reach poor. These programmes depend mainly on government and bank officials for their implementation. They are ill-motivated, inadequately trained and corruption-prone. As a result, the resources resulted in inefficiency and waste. The government policies failed to address the vast majority of people who are living below the poverty line. The attitude of the government officials should be changed. They should be sympathetic to the poor people.