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The scheme is administered by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. It is fully funded by the Central Government, unlike some other welfare programs where the Union government shares costs with the State Governments. Allocation of funds for NSAP by Government of India between 2009–10 and 2014–15 (in Crore Rs.): [9]
Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) is a government-sponsored program in India that aims to provide food at highly subsidized rates to millions of the poorest families in the country. It was launched on December 25, 2000, by the NDA government and was first implemented in the state of Rajasthan.
Garibi Hatao Desh Bachao (Hindi for "Remove poverty, save the country") was the theme and slogan of Indira Gandhi's 1971 election campaign. The slogan and the proposed anti-poverty programs that came with it were designed to give Gandhi an independent national support, based on rural and urban poor, which would allow her to by-pass the dominant rural castes both in and out of state and local ...
For example, among Duflo's earliest papers is an evaluation of a program in which one third of Village Council head positions in India are randomly reserved for women. [ 2 ] [ 16 ] The paper finds that councils led by women invest more in roads and drinking water, public goods that they find women are relatively more likely to complain about in ...
Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty. Measures, like those promoted by Henry George in his economics classic Progress and Poverty , are those that raise, or are intended to raise, ways of enabling the poor to ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 February 2025. Integrated Schematic National Programs for Economic Development This article is part of a series on the Politics of India Constitution Amendment Basic structure doctrine Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India Human rights Judicial review Taxation Uniform ...
Ministry of Co-operatives and Poverty Alleviation (Nepali: सहकारी तथा गरिबी निवारण मन्त्रालय) is a ministry of Nepal that governs policies and programmes for tackling poverty in the country. The current minister is Ek Nath Dhakal. [1]
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]