In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

Intensifying its attacks on the working class and rural poor, India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government hurriedly pushed the Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) ...

When it won its independence in 1947, India suffered from appalling poverty. Campaigning in rural districts, Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister, had seen the “mark of this beast” on ...

India has recorded a sharp decline in poverty over the last decade, the World Bank stated this in its latest report “Poverty & Equity Brief,” showing that extreme poverty fell to 2.3% in 2022–23, down ...

India’s housing schemes for the poor in the urban and rural areas, launched under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana are setting an example for the Global South as a tool for ...

Lucknow: In a clear indication of a consistent and sharp decline in the dependency of the rural poor on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGS) in UP, the number of ...

While hundreds of millions of poor people are struggling to survive without proper food, and even water, India’s richest person, billionaire Mukesh Ambani, has spent more than US$150 million for his ...

India is restructuring rural employment policy as improved state capacity coincides with persistent labour insecurity. Replacing MGNREGA with the VB-G Ram G Act shifts rural employment from a ...

NEW DELHI, June 7 (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party lost a third of its rural parliamentary constituencies in last month's election, a voter analysis shows, reflecting discontent ...