"We will eradicate poverty in the country. This is a 'dhamaka'. No country has done this in history. There should not be a single poor person in the country," Gandhi said.
he poverty rate in the country has nearly halved, falling from 55 per cent to 28 per cent over the ten-year period. India is the first country for which progress over time has been estimated.
The top 0.1 per cent of earners capture more growth than all those in the bottom 50 per cent combined, says the World Inequality Report.
Government think tank Niti Aayog has envisaged a New India by 2022 which will be free from poverty, dirt, corruption, terrorism, casteism and communalism.
Arun Jaitley said the economic growth will only bring in the resources which are needed for the aim of poverty alleviation.
Arvind Subramanian has advocated the idea of a Universal Basic Income to bring down the poverty level in the country in the Economic Survey 2016-17 that was tabled in the Parliament today.
With his penury-struck parents unable to even afford his fees of Rs 2.50, the Great Khali had to drop out of school and take up a plantation job available in the village to earn Rs 5 a day at the tender age of eight.
In a clear indication of rising income inequality in the country, India's richest one per cent now hold a huge 58 per cent of the nation's total wealth – higher than the global figure of about 50 per cent, a new study said on Monday.
Engaging pre-school children from the low-income families in intensive arts programmes such as music, dance and visual arts may help lower their stress levels, a study has found. Earlier studies found that poverty plays a
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With 25 farmers in Karnataka committing suicide in June, it appears evident that rural India is in distress–the long-term cause, a growth rate of almost zero (0.2%), and the immediate cause, crop failures caused by
New Delhi: Stressing that India was "aggressively" walking the energy efficiency path and will reduce its emission intensity, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday asked developed countries to reduce their emissions "vigorously" ahead of the
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New Delhi: Amid the ongoing tension between the two countries over ceasefire violations, Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit today said his country is committed to improving ties with India and that issues between
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