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Various poverty lines and resulting percentage of BPL population Method Line Figure % of poor population Poor population World Bank (2021) poverty line 1.90 (PPP $ day) 6 84m [7] lower middle-income line 3.20 (PPP $ day) 26.2 365m [7] upper middle-income line 5.50 (PPP $ day) 60.1 838m [7] Asian Development Bank (2014) poverty line
According to the Times of India, "a majority of Indians have per capita space equivalent to or less than a 10 feet x 10 feet room for their living, sleeping, cooking, washing and toilet needs." [3] The average housing area is 103 sq ft per person in rural areas and 117 sq ft per person in urban areas.
The ability of the Government of India to tackle urban homelessness and poverty may be affected in the future by both external and internal factors. [8] The number of people living in slums in India has more than doubled in the past two decades and now exceeds the entire population of Britain, the Indian Government has announced. [9]
In its annual report of 2012, the Reserve Bank of India named the state of Goa as having the least poverty of 5.09% while the national average stood at 21.92% [7] The table below presents the poverty statistics for rural, urban and combined percentage below poverty line (BPL) for each State or Union Territory. [7]
India, in 2019 has about 2.7% [1] population under poverty level and is no longer holding the largest population under poverty level, considering Nigeria and Congo. [2] On the other hand, the Planning Commission of India uses its own criteria and has estimated that 27.5% of the population was living below the poverty line in 2004–2005, down ...
National Buildings Organisation Emblem of India Agency overview Formed 1954 Jurisdiction Republic of India Headquarters G Wing, NBO Building, Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi-110108 Minister responsible Minister, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Parent department Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Website Official website National Buildings Organisation (NBO) is an autonomous ...
The Government of India then decided that the Below Poverty Line list for 2002 could be finalised as per original guidelines. The Director of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj stated that in the Below Poverty Line survey done in 1991 out of 8,433,000 Rural families 3,446,000 families were identified as Below Poverty Line families. In the ...
The Ministry became independent from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation in 2004, [3] but was later re-merged with it in 2017. [4] The ministry also published the National City Rating, which ranked the cleanest cities in India, under which Indore was rated as the cleanest. [5]