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India was seen as a poor nation where uplifting crores of people was considered an incredibly difficult, if not an impossible task. Turns out, all that was needed was a determined leadership to intervene on this front

As many as 24.82 crore people in India have come out of multidimensional poverty in the last nine years, according to a study released by NITI Aayog on Monday.

Telangana has made significant progress in reducing multidimensional poverty by about 10% in the last nine years, according to a NITI Aayog report. Learn more about the state's achievements in tackling poverty.

A NITI Aayog’s discussion paper claiming that 24.82 crore Indians have escaped multidimensional poverty has put the spotlight on poverty estimation methods.

For a very long period of time “Gareebi Hatao” was a mere political slogan but did not translate into much, except for political dividends for the parties that used such empty slogans. In fact even...

Last week, Niti Aayog said that more than 250 million people are out of multidimensional poverty. But what lies below the numbers?

Let’s identify and focus on a single variable that captures most of what India needs to track deprivation.

According to the estimated share of MPI poor in 2013-14 and 2022-23, Bihar recorded a 53 per cent drop from 56.3 per cent share of MPI poor in 2013-14 to 26.59 per cent in 2022-23.

An estimated 24.8 crore Indians may have moved out of multidimensional poverty in the past nine years, with UP and Bihar recording the biggest improvement, according to a new paper by Niti Aayog officials.

More than half of India’s population was multidimensionally poor in 2005-06, going by NFHS data for that period. This fell to 14.96% by 2019-21, according to Niti Aayog