Undivided Koraput District In Odisha Is Highest Level In Poverty Index: Experts
Bhubaneswar, Dec 23: The development of Koraput started 25 years ago yet it is a matter of concern that in poverty index of Odisha, undivided Koraput districts is in the highest level, Prof. Sunil Kant Behera, a visiting Professor of the Central University of Odisha said while quoting a Niti Ayog report published recently.
Prof. Behera was addressing a Lecture program on ‘SDG: An Overview and Challenges for Minimizing Income Inequality’ at the central university in Koraput. He elaborated the five Ps of the Sustainable Development Goals such as people, planet earth, prosperity, peace and partnership to achieve the target.
Prof Behera said, “no doubt the country is growing in many aspects but in the present globalized period the reality in the whole world is inequality where rich become richer, the poor become poorer and the middle classes are sufferer”.
As part of the Guest Lecture Series the Central university of Odisha, Koraput organized the second Guest lecture on ‘SDG: An Overview and Challenges for Minimizing Income Inequality’ on December 21, 2021.
Vice-Chancellor of the University Prof. Sharat Kumar Palita inaugurated and presided over the program. He highlighted various targets set on Sustainable Development Goals and what our country achieved so far. Eminent economist and policy-planner Prof. S.N. Mishra, Dean, School of Management KIIT deliberated historical perspective of SDG starting from Brundtland Report 1987, compared different goals of MDG-2010 and SDG-2016, SDG sub-targets including eradication of extreme poverty, improvement of social protection system ensuring equal rights to basic service
He said, “in a liberalized world markets become free and give us free access but there is inequality in human development parameters like society, economy, justice and inequality.
Although growth is there, the level of poverty has increased around the globe, Prof. Mishra said and suggested improvement of education and up-skilling of the workforce, increase in minimum wages, higher tax on the super rich, improvement of universal health care, increase in tax on corporate and introduction of wealth tax to reduce inequality.
