{"id":5451,"date":"2017-10-17T01:16:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T19:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=5451"},"modified":"2017-10-17T01:16:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T19:46:43","slug":"international-day-for-the-eradication-of-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2017\/10\/17\/international-day-for-the-eradication-of-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day for the Eradication of Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><br \/>\n17 October is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Poverty is the root cause of many Socio-economic problems. Overpopulation, unemployment , low literacy levels &amp; increasing crimes are all consequences of poverty.<br \/>\nIt is said India is a rich country with poor people. In India, which houses the largest poor population, wealth &amp; prosperity is concentrated in the hands of few, but millions don&#8217;t have access to even basic facilities like drinking water, sanitation or healthcare &amp; often have to go to bed at night without food. Only if steps are taken to reduce poverty many of our social problems will be solved &amp; the nation will &amp; develop &amp; prosper. Mahatma Gandhi said &#8220;Poverty is the worst form of violence.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Yours,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>T.S.Karthik, Chennai <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, 17 October is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Poverty is the root cause of many Socio-economic problems. Overpopulation, unemployment , low literacy levels &amp; increasing crimes are all consequences of poverty. It is said India is a rich country with poor people. In India, which houses the largest poor population, wealth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}