Unravelling the food mess

Reaching food to people who need it the most has remained one of the most stubborn problems in India. The public distribution system (PDS) is in …

Let solar shine

Census 2011 throws light on the darkness across India. Of the 246 million households, 67 per cent get electricity from the grid, while 31 per …

No toilet, no food; is this how India will become ODF?

Kiran Bedi's order, suspending free rice distribution scheme for Puducherry's poorest families from end of May unless they produce a certificate …

Two per cent of world population: that’s the number of poor in just five states of India

42 per cent of India’s population lives in these states and nearly one in every 4 person is poor

Chitapur: A village that counts its GDP in tamarind trees

Staple food grain being supplied cheaper, forest produce become the most important economy in forest-dwelling villages, sidelining agriculture

Bhukh chala gaya, dukh nahi: The new hunger problem stalking India’s poorest region

Government schemes have brought food to people in Koraput, Kalahandi and Bastar; but they still do not have sustainable livelihoods

Less than a third BPL senior citizens benefit from old age pension scheme: Health ministry survey

Awareness and enrolment for widow pension and Annapurna schemes were even lower, the study said

How these five states in India are making it difficult to meet global SDG commitments

NITI Aayog CEO got it right, almost. Just five states are increasing the global challenge of meeting sustainable development goals

Weather advisories drive farmers’ income up to 50%

Every rupee spent on weather forecasting fetches 50-fold economic gains to below poverty line farming families  

Quarter-billion people face extreme poverty in 2022 as the rich get richer: Oxfam

Inflation driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine a major factors behind financial crisis

India needs the ‘Garibi Hatao’ slogan back

Anti-poverty programmes must be universal, not just on a below or above poverty line matrix

What Sierra Leone teaches us on poverty measurement

The latest Global Multidimensional Poverty Index says this least developed country reduced overall poverty and deprivations fastest in the world …

COVID-19 impact: World will have 150 million ‘new extreme poor people’ in 2021

This is nearly twice the number of ‘new extreme poor’ estimated by the World Bank in April 2020

Dying for ration: Tonk woman bringing up family on Rs 200 a day not eligible for PDS welfare

Ill-treated by husband for not birthing a boy, free ration would mean not worrying about feeding her daughters

How India remains poor: As many as 22 states have become poorer

Latest NITI Aayog counts no state as ‘achiever’; overall performance of most ‘performing’, ‘laggard’ states …

New poverty line: Rs 32 for rural India, Rs 47 for urban India

The latest report by Rangarajan committee has added almost 100 million more people to the list of poor

Poverty is ecological: We must accept income poverty is the wrong yardstick

Today, October 17, 2020, we observe the 27th anniversary of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty at a time when the COVID-19 …

India stopped counting poor; now the world in bind on how to achieve zero poverty by 2030

World Bank’s latest poverty report highlights how absence of poverty data in India — junked by the government last year — …

Only BPL families to get free treatment under NDA’s proposed health scheme

Those above poverty line will have to pay 33 per cent of the cost while the remaining will be paid by government and insurance companies

Global poverty: coronavirus could drive it up for the first time since the 1990s

Poverty is likely to increase dramatically in middle-income developing countries in Asia, such as India, Pakistan, Indonesia and the Philippines

How India remains poor: Has poverty become ‘hereditary’

Millions of Indian households transfer poverty to the next generation, making poverty eradication nearly impossible

Use technology to make PDS transparent, efficient: Wadhwa committee

Supreme Court-appointed panel recommends phasing out private dealers from supply chain and doing away with above poverty line list

Dying for ration: Biometric glitches in Rajasthan villages keep the poor hungry

Valid ration card holders turned away from PDS shops as fingerprints don't match in records

Poverty line delinked from food and other entitlements given to the poor

Government to wait for results of socio-economic caste census to decide parameters on who should be covered under social welfare programmes

Socio-economic caste census: only 4 states, UTs complete survey

Union rural development minister, Jairam Ramesh, asks all states to sort out inconsistencies in preliminary data