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26 Feb 2024

EXPLAINER: How Does Niti Ayog Calculate Poverty In India?

Over time, both NITI Aayog and its predecessor, the Planning Commission, have methodically produced estimates of poverty in their efforts to address the complexities of poverty.

21 Nov 2017

No of millionaires to soar by over 50% by 2022: Report

The report further said the country would have 3,70,000 millionaires in 2022, up from 2,45,000 now, an increase of over 50 percent.

Maharashtra drought

31 May 2016

A man-made water crisis in Mumbai's backyard (video inside)

When water starts to flow out of the pipe, they pass the pipe down to their respective family members, mostly women, who fill up the blue drums.

06 Nov 2015

Higher growth best antidote to poverty: FM Jaitley

The government estimates growth to be between 8-8.5 percent in the current fiscal.

Finance Minister

21 Mar 2015

Need for easing entry barriers for MNCs to boost growth: FM

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said there is a need to ease entry barriers for global corporates and ensure stability in taxation policies to sustain high growth and eradicate poverty.

04 Feb 2015

30 crore people still live in extreme poverty in India: Report

About 30 crore people still live in extreme poverty in India even as the Millennium Development Goal (MGD) programme will expire in December, a United Nations report has said.

31 Oct 2014

Nominal tax on super rich can lift 9 cr out of poverty: Report

The study found that in India, the number of billionaires increased from two in the 1990s to 65 in 2014.

05 Sep 2014

Poverty cannot be abolished,remove core problems: Meghnad Desai

Arguing that "poverty cannot be abolished", eminent India-born British economist, author and Labour Party politician Lord Meghnad Desai today said the better approach will be to concentrate on the core problems of poverty and try to remove them.

07 Jul 2014

100 million more Indians defined as poor: Reports

The poverty line is used to help determine government welfare benefit entitlements.

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