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  India’s poverty level falls below five per cent, urban-rural consumption gap narrowing: NITI Aayog

  Business | February 26, 2024 12:09 IST

  People were categorised into 20 different groups in the survey, which revealed the data that the average per capita monthly expenditure in the rural areas is Rs 3,773, and in the urban areas is Rs 6,459.

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  India home to most poor, but poverty rate lowest: World Bank

  India | October 05, 2015 23:29 IST

  Washington: India was home to the largest number of poor in 2012, but its poverty rate was one of the lowest among those countries with the largest number of poor, according to a new World

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  Sikkim records steepest fall in poverty level

  India | September 15, 2013 11:47 IST

  Gangtok: Sikkim has recorded steepest fall in poverty level in the country on account of increase in per capita consumption and the proportion of the poor living below poverty line in the urban area is