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15 Jan 2024

India Lifts 24.82 Cr People Out Of Multidimensional Poverty In 9 Yrs: 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.

18 Aug 2022

DNA: What is the most bothersome problem for Indians?

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.

75 Opinion Poll

15 Aug 2022

Zee Opinion Poll: Watch opinion polls on every major issue since Independence

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.

19 Apr 2022

Poverty in India declined by 12.3 percentage points during 2011-19: WB

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.

18 Apr 2022

Poverty rate has decreased in the country during the tenure of PM Modi

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

19 Mar 2021

COVID-19 pushed 32 million Indians out of the middle class: Report

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.

28 Nov 2017

Ivanka's remarks on poverty alleviation was for UPA govt, says Chidambaram

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.

08 Jul 2016

View from the Window

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.

08 Jan 2016

Growth in states must for India to fight poverty: FM Jaitley

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.

02 Nov 2015

DNA: Has India met the Millennium Development Goals?

India's economic growth

09 Jun 2015

Indian economy's pace unsatisfactory: Chidambaram

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.

07 Apr 2015

New methodology to estimate number of poor soon

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.

20 Sep 2014

Bill Gates in bid to boost charity amongst India's rich

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.

08 Sep 2014

India needs to work more to address poverty: FAO

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.

15 Aug 2014

PM asks neighbouring countries to jointly work to end poverty

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.

Poverty in India

18 Jul 2014

UK lauds India's efforts to reduce poverty, stress on growth

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".

07 Jul 2014

3 out of 10 in India are poor: Rangarajan panel

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.

01 Jul 2014

Rangarajan panel submits report on poverty to PlanComm

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

30 Jun 2014

Rangarajan panel report on poverty today

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.

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