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Poverty has traditionally been measured using just one criterion – money. Since 2021, the Indian government’s think tank has been doing it a little differently, taking a leaf out the UN’s book
Multidimensional Poverty: India has registered a significant decline of 9.89 percentage points in the number of India's multidimensionally poor from 24.85 per cent in 2015-16 to 14.96 per cent in 2019-2021
India has significantly reduced multidimensional poverty in the past five years, according to the National Multidimensional Poverty Index, released by NITI Aayog. Out of a population of 1.366 billion, 135 million Indians moved out of multidimensional poverty, with the proportion of poor reducing from 24.8% to 14.9%. Uttar Pradesh saw the highest decline, with 34.3 million people escaping poverty, followed by Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.
It highlights though that 135 million people have been lifted out of poverty between 2015-16 and 2019-21
Multidimensional poverty in India has decreased from 24.85% in 2015-16 to 14.96% in 2019-21, says a report | Latest News India