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  Poverty  Urban and Rural Poverty in India Initially poverty was only supposed to be limited in rural areas. Although in India people from both rural and urban part are suffering from problem of poverty. This was one of the major grounds because of which Rangaranjan committee considered rural and urban poverty in separate basket rather than in same one as done earlier by Tendulkar committee.  Income poverty being subset of poverty can be defined as scarcity of enough money in order to provide food, clothing or shelter. The overall harmful impact of poverty include greater exposure to environmental disease such as, tobacco, malnutrition and alcohol besides it few more severe issues are less parental involvement in school, excessively crowded and noisy living arrangements less cognitive stimulation, instable residential, negative, harsh and uncaring parenting, exposure to aggressive peer pressure, family insecurity and clashes, un-sufficient parental inspection,  ...