Hunger and Poverty are the biggest challenges for good governance in India still today. Evaluate how far successive governments have progressed in dealing with these humongous problems. Suggest measures for improvement. (150 words)

1. Financial inclusion measures : like Jan dhan yojana, Suraksha beema yojana, MNREGA< SITRA (suplly if improved tools for rual artisans). rural landless emplpoyment program (RLEGP), National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) are some of the intiiatives of the past for poverty alleviation. To tackle hunger :National food security act was brought in 2013. Annapurna scheme, Antodaya yojana (35 kg of foodgrains to the family) are some of the past initiatives
However desite such initiatives :
1. still BPL population is 26% of the total population in India
2. India is represented poorly in global hunger report brought by IFPRI (behind Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries of the neighbourhood who are better than India in hunger report)
Reasons for the above are:
1. drought
2. structural deficiencies
Innovative strategies need to be deployed for tacking these problems:
1. rice bonds in the international market to borrow money- once we borrow at low interets rates, the money to be deposited in terms of rice export to the lending nation
2. taking help of NGOs to feed poor child
3. taking help of civil scoiety and international NGOs liek OXfam, to generate mass awareness campaign- then poor people t be employed permannently (using their suggestions)
4.Hunger and Poverty schools to be estbalished where only poor people are admitted, they are fed by the state government and 100% job offers to them by MSMEs