ACCOUNTING FOR INEQUALITY, POVERTY AND EXCLUSION

Abstract: This paper utilizes various reasons and measures to show the social inequalities on poverty and their social exclusion during pre-covid and post-covid era. While poverty and inequality has been a Centre to many discussions about the repercussion of India’s drawbacks of its economy, we have observed that it has increased and become topics of stronger worries and complications during the post-covid era. This paper focuses on the statistics of rich becoming richer and the poor becoming poorer. A recent study has revealed that the wealth of Indian billionaires shot up by 39% in Covid, fortune of 10 richest enough to fund children’s education for 25 years. This is because of the continuous exploitation of the poor and the middle class in these uncertain and crucial times. In this paper we attempt an initial assessment of reasons that caused this exploitation. The reasons play around the poverty exclusions based on the discrimination against Dalits, tribals, widows, sex-workers, migrants, nomadic tribes, etc. This paper focuses on how exclusion is a fate of the communities that were dislocated due to various development project and discrimination based on India’s historical divisions deeply rooted on lines of misogyny, caste pride, and the religious divisions