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Poverty in India
October 30 , 2025
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- In 2014, the Rangarajan Committee set poverty lines at ₹972 per month for rural areas and ₹1,407 per month for urban areas.
- About 29.5 percent of Indians were below the poverty line according to this measure in 2014.
- The Reserve Bank of India updated poverty estimates for 20 major states using Household Consumption Expenditure Survey data for 2022–23.
- Rural poverty in Odisha fell from 47.8 percent to 8.6 percent, and urban poverty in Bihar fell from 50.8 percent to 9.1 percent.
- The government now also measures multidimensional poverty using 12 indicators, including nutrition, schooling, sanitation, electricity, and bank accounts.
- Multidimensional poverty in India declined from 29.17 percent in 2013–14 to 11.28 percent in 2022–23.
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