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  2. Poverty in India - Wikipedia

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    The Government of India began using a modified version of this method of calculating the poverty line in India. [96] There are wide variations in India's poverty estimates for 1990s, in part from differences in the methodology and in the small sample surveys they poll for the underlying data.

  3. List of Indian states and union territories by poverty rate

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    Various poverty lines and resulting percentage of BPL population Method Line Figure % of poor population Poor population World Bank (2021) 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

  4. National Rural Livelihood Mission - Wikipedia

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    The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) is a poverty alleviation project implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development, a branch of the Government of India.This plan is focused on promoting self-employment and the organization of rural poor.

  5. One-tenth of India's population escaped poverty in 5 years ...

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    Nearly 135 million people, around 10% of India's population, escaped poverty in the five years to March 2021, a government report found on Monday. Rural areas saw the strongest fall in poverty ...

  6. Universal basic income in India - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Standard of living in India - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. List of schemes of the government of India - Wikipedia

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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]

  9. Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty - Wikipedia

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    Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) is an autonomous society of the Department of Rural Development, Government of Andhra Pradesh. [1] SERP is implementing Indira Kranthi Patham (IKP), [2] a statewide community driven rural poverty reduction project to enable the poor to improve their livelihoods and quality of life through their own organizations.