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It is a part of India’s strategy to create a cashless economy, improving financial inclusion and transparency while reducing reliance on cash-based transactions. PM Ujjwala Yojana (PM Lighting Scheme) CSS MoP&NG: 2016 Energy, Health, Poverty Launched to provide free LPG connections to women from below poverty line families. [48]
The state has a per capita income of $536 a year against India's average of $1470 and 30.6% of the state's population lives below the poverty line against India's average of 22.15%. The level of urbanisation (10.5%) is below the national average (27.78%). Urban poverty in Bihar (32.91%) is above the national average of 23.62%.
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 ...
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.
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]