According to contemporary definitions we can distinguish two kinds of human rights: first – civil and political rights, second – economic social and cultural rights. When focusing on economic rights it is easy to observe specific group of human population deprived, basically all economic human rights; namely a group living under poverty line. Poverty issue and poverty reduction is one of the crucial consideration of United Nations, countries governments and many NGOs and it is based on notion of economic and social equality or rather raising inequality. Asia is the continent with majority of population living in poverty and India is the state with enormous – biggest in the world – amount of people living in humiliation of poverty. Both Indian government and international community makes an effort to reduce it and improve the situation. The paper attempts to put some light on the problem.