Read the first paragraph under heading ‘Rural Poverty at the time of Independence’ and answer the following: Are the conditions improved now? In what way?

Yes, I think conditions are improved now from earlier. The landless people are less as compared to the time of independence. Earlier people were only dependent to the agriculture for their employment. But now even if some people are landless, they have some other source of income and employment in some other sector. Many land reforms and acts have been passed by government to overcome the poverty in the country. It has been successful to some extent but there is long way to go to have a complete eradication of poverty from the country. There is improvement in the conditions of rural people and everybody have to do more to improve them more.