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His father drove an e-rickshaw. Family income was below Rs 1 lakh. Boy from Rajasthan reveals how he cracked IIT JEE Advanced: ‘Started studying before 6:00 am…’Hailing from a remote Rajasthan village with an annual family income below Rs 1 lakh, Inderjeet overcame poverty and poor infrastructure to...- Quote of the day by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: 'The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is...' Life lessons on growth, success and human nature by Swiss-born philosopher and writerQuote of the day by Jean-Jacques Rousseau continues to inspire discussions on imagination, human nature, freedom and growth. Rousseau belie...
- Naxalism has been almost eradicated from Bastar, the region is now on the path of development: Amit Shah in Lok SabhaNoting that the Modi government has taken several steps to usher development in areas that were affected by Left Wing Extremism, Union Home...
- Rural Development budget slightly up; MGNREGS allocation unchanged at Rs 86,000 croreThe Rural Development Ministry in India received a budget allocation of Rs 1.88 lakh crore for 2025-26, marking a 5.75% increase from the p...
- Rural Development Ministry aims to sanction 10 lakh houses under PMAY-G in JanuaryThe Rural Development Ministry aims to sanction 10 lakh houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin in January 2025. Targets will be...
- Samajwadi Party promises to completely eradicate poverty in the next 5 year in its manifestoSP today unveiled its manifesto titled 'Janta Ka Maang Patra - Humara Adhikar,' pledging to eradicate poverty by 2029 if elected. Key promi...
- What happened to poverty during Covid pandemic in India?The decline in inequality and the much modest increase in poverty during the pandemic as observed in various studies is not a finding exclu...
- Pulling the poor out of poverty, now fasterIndia's adoption of technology to transfer welfare benefits has been a runaway success in poverty reduction. However, the speeding up of th...
- India, no longer a poverty posterboyAs the government dials down pandemic-induced food subsidies, poverty reduction will revert to being driven by growth in incomes in the bot...
- Now, Rs 10,000 in a/c to be measure of rural povertyThe rural development ministry is learnt to have finalised 21 parameters to measure the status of gram panchayats under Mission Antyodaya.
- Niti Aayog sees poverty, corruption free India by 2022According to NITI Aayog's New India @2022 document, India will be in the top three economies of the world if it continues to grow at 8 per ...
- Rs 20k in accounts to be rural poverty barometerInterestingly, higher the number of households with bank loans for “diversified livelihood“, the better the village would be assessed on th...
- Government aims to achieve 100% power connectivity: Piyush GoyalGoyal stressed that there is no need to focus only on BPL (Below Poverty Line) or APL (Above Poverty Line) criterion when it comes to provi...
- PM Modi launches scheme to provide free LPG connections to poorThe prime minister will also visit his constituency Varanasi, where he will distribute e-rickshaws to beneficiaries.
- Xi Jinping pledges to remove poverty in China by 2020Xi Jinping to lift the remaining over 70 million people in the world's second biggest economy out of poverty by 2020, which amounts to a mi...
- Nominal tax on super rich can lift 9 crore out of poverty: ReportLevying a wealth tax of 1.5 per cent on super rich could help attain the objective of raising people out of extreme poverty.
- Charity for poll wins will not help rural India develop: Narendra ModiThis is for the first time Modi attacked the socialist agenda undertaken by the Congress-led UPA for rural welfare.
- Electricity provision a key factor in empowering rural householdsRGGVY was a flagship scheme of UPA-I that had a goal of completing rural electrification by providing access to all villages.
- Free electricity connections to Assam villagers help save fuelUPA government’s flagship scheme provides free connections to BPL households but richer section of the village have to bear the actual cost.
- Govt's rural electrification scheme in darkDelay in sanctioning money has taken its toll on the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojna as the government has fallen short of target t...
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