NITI Aayog has corroborated earlier findings by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that 135 million people were lifted out of ...

“It is recommended that an expert committee be set up to arrive at an informed decision on the level at which the poverty line should be se...

"I dont think that it is conservative estimates. In my view it is reasonable estimates. We have derived poverty estimates independently," R...

India's population was estimated at 123 crore as of March 1, 2012, while as many as 27 crore people lived bpl in 2011-12.

Expressing concern over the latest poverty figures, a Parliamentary panel has asked the government to set up of a joint mechanism comprisin...

Poverty ratio in the country has declined to 21.9% in 2011-12 from 37.2% in 2004-05 on account of increase in per capita consumption, Plann...

United Nations has observed that poverty head count ratio for Muslims is highest in the states of Assam, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Guj...

India's poverty ratio is likely to be 26.7 per cent by 2015 while child mortality ratio is seen at 52 per thousand live births.

According to Planning Commission's estimates, poverty ratio was at 29.8% in 09-10 as per the Tendulkar Committee methodology.

Among the major states, Orissa recorded the steepest fall in poverty from 2004-05 to 2009-10, Minister of State for Planning Ashwani Kumar ...

Plan panel deputy chairman Ahluwalia asserted that the number of poor in the country has come down irrespective of the method of calculatio...

The benefits of high economic growth have not trickled down to the bottom 15% who are the most disadvantaged in the country.

The new estimates are based on a poverty line that averages Rs 672.8 per month (Rs 22.43 per day) in rural areas and Rs 859.6 per month (Rs...

An individual above a monthly consumption of Rs 859.6 in urban and Rs 672.8 in rural areas is not considered poor, as per the controversial...

Poverty has come down over the decade of reforms, but a fifth to a quarter of the population still remains poor, according to the latest es...

The poverty ratio in the country has come down to 22% from 36% in 1993-94 as per initial estimates, the government said.