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poverty line 1.90 (PPP $ day) 6 84m [7] lower middle-income line 3.20 (PPP $ day) 26.2 365m [7] upper middle-income line 5.50 (PPP $ day) 60.1 838m [7] Asian Development Bank (2014) poverty line $ 1.51 per person per day [8] Tendulkar Expert Group (2009) urban poverty line Rs 32 per person per day consumption [9] rural poverty line
In its annual report of 2012, the Reserve Bank of India named the state of Goa as having the least poverty of 5.09% while the national average stood at 21.92% [7] The table below presents the poverty statistics for rural, urban and combined percentage below poverty line (BPL) for each State or Union Territory. [7]
Uttar Pradesh has more than 45 universities, [255] including six central universities, twenty eight state universities, eight deemed universities, two IITs in Varanasi and Kanpur, AIIMS Gorakhpur and AIIMS Rae Bareli, an IIM in Lucknow [256] [257] Founded in 1845, La Martinière Girls' College in Lucknow, stands as one of the oldest schools in ...
Himachal Pradesh: 0.652 4 Goa: 0.617 5 Punjab: 0.605 6 Northeast India: 0.573 7 Maharashtra: 0.572 8 Tamil Nadu: 0.570 9 Haryana: 0.552 10 Jammu and Kashmir: 0.542 11 Gujarat: 0.527 12 Karnataka: 0.519 – National average 0.513 13 West Bengal: 0.492 14 Uttarakhand: 0.490 15 Andhra Pradesh: 0.473 17 Rajasthan: 0.434 18 Uttar Pradesh: 0.380 19 ...
In the same time it reduced poverty by 50%. With respect to cutting poverty in half, India took three times the number of years—18 years between 1993 and 2011. [ 5 ] In 2013, average farmer income was ₹ 6,426 (equivalent to ₹ 11,000 or US$130 in 2023) while its average monthly consumption expenditure was ₹ 6,223 (equivalent to ...
India, in 2019 has about 2.7% [1] population under poverty level and is no longer holding the largest population under poverty level, considering Nigeria and Congo. [2] On the other hand, the Planning Commission of India uses its own criteria and has estimated that 27.5% of the population was living below the poverty line in 2004–2005, down ...
According to chief minister Yogi Adityanath Uttar Pradesh, GSDP might hit 32 lakh crore by March 2025. [8] Merchandise exports from Uttar Pradesh reached US$21.03 billion in FY22. [9] Uttar Pradesh is the largest producer of food grains in India and accounted for about 17.83% share in the country's total food grain output in 2016–17.
In 2016, the idea of a Universal Basic Income in India made huge news by taking up over forty pages in the 2016–2017 India Economic Survey [3] as a serious and feasible solution to India's poverty and a hope for the economy as a whole. In India, this was an idea that has been discussed for decades in both the public and private spheres.