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Poverty in India

  • Readers’ comments: Timely, much-needed article on why rigid naming format must change

    Readers’ comments: Timely, much-needed article on why rigid naming format must change

    Scroll
    · Dec 06, 2024 · 03:30 pm
  • India has highest number of persons living in poverty: UN report

    India has highest number of persons living in poverty: UN report

    Scroll Staff
    · Oct 20, 2024 · 01:10 pm
  • How many people live below the poverty line in India? It could be 34 million or 373 million

    How many people live below the poverty line in India? It could be 34 million or 373 million

    Nushaiba Iqbal, IndiaSpend.com
    · May 05, 2023 · 07:30 pm
  • Government not to release survey showing first fall in consumer spending in over 40 years: Report

    Government not to release survey showing first fall in consumer spending in over 40 years: Report

    Scroll Staff
    · Feb 18, 2020 · 10:17 am
  • The question is not if NYAY can actually work in India – but if it will first work for Congress

    The question is not if NYAY can actually work in India – but if it will first work for Congress

    Devangshu Datta
    · Mar 28, 2019 · 08:00 am
  • India’s poverty rate fell by half between 2005-’06 and 2015-’16: UN report

    India’s poverty rate fell by half between 2005-’06 and 2015-’16: UN report

    Scroll Staff
    · Sep 22, 2018 · 10:34 am
  • Blocking out the poor: Why the attitude of many urban middle class volunteers at my NGO bothers me

    Blocking out the poor: Why the attitude of many urban middle class volunteers at my NGO bothers me

    Bharati Chaturvedi
    · Apr 19, 2018 · 08:00 am
  • This Rajasthan village wants to catch up with India’s digital revolution – but lacks the wherewithal

    This Rajasthan village wants to catch up with India’s digital revolution – but lacks the wherewithal

    Shubham Sharma
    · Apr 15, 2018 · 09:30 pm
  • In charts: Six challenges India faced in 1947 – and how it has fared in battling them

    In charts: Six challenges India faced in 1947 – and how it has fared in battling them

    Smruti Koppikar
    · Aug 16, 2017 · 07:30 am