Urbanisation is a disease. We have numerous land laws in force but none of them a followed in spirit. Most of the times people hire lawyers to bye pass the technicalities and find loop holes in these welfare legislations.

Another disease pestering us is the "Other Should" syndrome. Under this every citizen expects his compatriot to be an ideal hard working honest and meek servant of the state while he himself seeks leisure and less responsibility.
For eg..... You'll hear people talking about how doctors should;d go the villages and serve the people there..but when it comes to their children they can't digest the fact that their wards be transferred outside the state capital.

Scheduled Tribe category folks don't want to return to their villages. No person wants to to go out of delhi, mumbai even if he gets a job.
I mean..Poverty is in the end a very subjective term. In the eyes of the industrialist even we the middle class is poor. While in the eyes of the middle class the destitute and homeless are the deprived faction.
Civilization gave birth to the definition of poverty. No one was poor in a barbaric society . The concept of property led to the emergence of the concept of wealth.
Unless we return to animal like simplicity we can't hope to fully eradicate poverty. Today we have people who are materially poor. Tomorrow we'll have those who are intellectually poor the day after those who are socially poor......an d so on....poverty thrives whenever comparative parameters dominate the ethos of a society.