i. Increase in the pace of economic growth : If rapid economic development takes place in the country, it would cause income to rise. The rise in income would percolate down to the poor class. The result would be creation of employment opportunities due to development, which would reduce poverty and the tax income of the government will increase. In this way, development is considered important for the country to grow. However, as the speed of development was not satisfactory and economic employment could not create employment in sufficient measure. Therefore, alleviating poverty only through economic development proved to be a failure.

ii. Implementation of Wage Employment and Self Employment Programme for Alleviating Poverty : In the decade of 60s, the poverty ratio was quite high. It also presented the fact that the number of poor is higher in rural areas and poverty was particularly rife in marginal and small farmers and in landless agricultural labourers. And in order to alleviate poverty, programmes directly impacting poverty will have to be adopted. This presented the extensiveness of the problem of poverty in India. As a result, marginal farmers development agency, small farmers development agency, intensive programme for rural employment, initial intensive rural employment programme, food for work programme etc. were adopted. 

Later, some more programmes were also launched for poverty alleviation.

• Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) 
• Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY) 
• Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS) 
• Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana 
• Pradhan Mantri Gramodya Yojana 
• Swama Jayanti Shahri Rozgar Yojana 
• Sampuma Gramin Rozgar Yoj ana 
• ValkimiAmbedkarAwas Yojana 
• National Food for Work Programme 0 Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana 
• National Rural Employment Programme (NREP) 
• National Rural Livelihood Mission 
• National Urban Livelihood Mission

iii. Social Assistance Programme : In order to provide social security, the National Social Assistance Programme was launched in August 15, 1995. This programme had four components. These included old age pension, window pension, inability pension, and family benefit scheme. The Social Assistance Programme was basically meant for those poor people who could not become a part of wage employment and self employment programmes due to some inability.

iv. Area Development Program and Infrastructure Development : The problem of poverty was more acute in some regions of the country due to backwardness and natural losses. Attention was given to development in these regions by implementing special programmes, so that the income of the poor people living in these regions could be increased. The Drought Prone Area Programme (DPAP) and Desert Development Programme (DDP) was launched in 1977-78. Under this program, scheme was implemented for maintaining ecological balance in desert areas, productive employment, income growth, restricting expansion of deserts and increasing productivity of land.

Programs were undertaken to provide rural housing. The Public Distribution System was increasingly targeted towards the rural classes. All these efforts were made so that these areas could be developed and the condition of the extent of poverty of the people living in these areas could be controlled.