Poverty in India News

India Lifts Millions Out Of Poverty As Pakistan Struggles, Reveals World Bank Report

According to a NITI Aayog report, as many as 24.82 crore people in India have moved out of multidimensional poverty in the past nine years.

Zee News and Zee Darpan have done an opinion poll on the completion of 75 years of Independence in which opinion has been taken from more than 5,000 people from all over the country on selected issues of the country.

Zee News and Zee Darpan have done an opinion poll on the completion of 75 years of Independence in which more than 5,000 people have given their opinion from all over the country. This poll is very interesting because in this you will get information about what changed in 75 years of Independence and which political face remained in limelight. In this poll, all questions related to the need of movements, height of celebrities, sports and cinema have been asked.

India has not released a new household consumption survey since the NSS from 2011. Urban poverty rose by 2 percentage points in 2016 during the demonetisation event and fell sharply thereafter, the paper said. The paper also added that rural poverty rose by 10 basis points in 2019 likely due to a growth slowdown.

Poverty of the country has decreased very fast during the tenure of Prime Minister Modi, 12.3% of the country's poverty has decreased in 8 years

Nearly 57 million people had joined the middle-income group between 2011 and 2019, says Pew research. India's tally of 11.47 million is the highest after the United States and Brazil.

Ivanka Trump on Tuesday said reducing the gender gap in the labour force by half can help boost Indian economy by over USD 150 billion in the next three years.

It is not that one is not aware of living a relatively privileged life in a vastly poor country. But that day the reality hit me in a much more real manner.

Strong economic growth in states is "imperative" for pushing up the country's GDP and giving it a "cutting edge" to fight poverty and generate jobs, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Friday.  

Former finance minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday the present pace of the Indian economy will neither create any jobs nor it will help the country in coming out of poverty.

A task-force headed by NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Arvind Panagariya will soon come up with a new methodology to estimate the number of poor in the country.

US billionaire Bill Gates will dine with some of India`s wealthiest people this weekend in a bid to encourage them to give more to charity, in a country where the rich are still seen as relatively tight-fisted.

India, the world's second largest wheat and rice grower, needs to make speedier progress towards reducing the number of hungry people, a top official of the UN food agency FAO said Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday gave a clarion call to all neighbouring and SAARC countries to work "shoulder-to-shoulder" to remove poverty from the region, leaving behind the world of death and killings.

The British government has appreciated India's fast movement towards reduction of poverty with "inclusiveness" and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stress on investment in growth and infrastructure was "encouraging".

A panel headed by former PMEAC Chairman C Rangarajan has dismissed the Tendulkar Committee report on estimating poverty and said that the number of poor in India was much higher in 2011-12 at 29.5 percent of the population, which means that three out of 10 persons are poor.

Former PMEAC chief C Rangarajan has submitted the report on Tendulkar Committee methodology for estimating poverty to Planning Minister Rao Inderjit Singh.

The Planning Commission in May 2012 had constituted the expert group to review the Tendulkar Committee methodology for estimating poverty, following an uproar over the number of poor in the country.