MODERN SOCIETY: A GREAT CHALLENGE IN INDIA

Abstract [English]

In India suffers from a host of social issues ranging from poverty to gendered violence. This article covers the concept of social issues and highlights the different experiences of rural and urban sectors. Further, it studies six important social issues namely poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, the caste system, gendered violence and communalism by analyzing their causes and the specific measures adopted to combat them. Poverty is one of the leading social problems in India. Poverty basically means the unavailability of adequate means of money to fulfill the basic requisites of human life such as food, shelter, clothes, health and education. Poverty is not only socio-economic but even emotional, cultural and political in nature. As India is one of the most overpopulated nations, it is one of the major factors leading to poverty. Rural areas are mostly affected by it. Poverty basically indicates three things- economic dependence, economic insufficiency, and economic inequality. The social issues like poverty, unemployment, migration, crime, delinquency, drug abuse, child abuse, crime against women, crime against children, discrimination on the basis of Caste, class & religion , corruption, family and health problems, education, political, economic, cultural and environment issues and human rights violation all need to be seen in the socio economic repercussions. Steadily rising crimes against women and minorities, intolerance towards other religious communities, lack of employment opportunities for the steadily rising population and insufficient schemes to eradicate poverty can be termed as the major social issues facing India. We people are talking more about the social issues in society but only marginal people are willing to do work on it in practical manner this is harsh reality of our society. If we want to change then we have to work collectively to eliminate these problems. Hope we all understand the social responsibilities.