India's poverty rates are expected to fall to 4.6 per cent for the year 2024 amid overall economic growth, reported the news agency ANI on Tuesday, 10 June 2025, citing a State Bank of India (SBI) ...

India’s poverty rate is expected to come down further to 4.6 per cent in 2024, according to a State Bank of India (SBI) report. A new World Bank report projects that India’s extreme poverty has come ...

Kerala has officially been declared an “extreme poverty-free state”, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced on Saturday. With this, it became the first state in the country to make such a ...

India has seen a great reduction in its poverty rate since its Independence, with several factors, including government-launched schemes, helping its citizens uplift themselves to a better life. At ...

India lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty between 2011 and 2022, but still has the largest number of poor people in the world. More than 350 million Indians still lack access to ...

Southern state’s focus on education and welfare holds lessons for the rest of the country A bustling street scene at the entrance of a colonial-era structure in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

NEW DELHI, July 17 (Reuters) - Nearly 135 million people, around 10% of India's population, escaped poverty in the five years to March 2021, a government report found on Monday. Rural areas saw the ...

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan formally announced in the state assembly on Saturday and that the state has eradicated extreme poverty. The LDF government claims Kerala is the first state in ...