The survey data was released on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary on October 2, 2023, pegging Bihar’s population at 13.07 crore. The castes were counted under 215 heads, in which 36.02 per cent of ...

Remarkably, states that were once considered laggards such as Bihar, Rajasthan are showing ... National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) data. The new poverty line for 2023-24 stands at Rs 1,632 ...

But for many families in poverty-stricken rural India, their children's education seems more of a far-fetched dream. NHK World's Hirayama Akihide visited Bihar state to see the struggle firsthand.

In 2005, India introduced a national anti-poverty program ... They also used the data to better understand the program’s effectiveness in reaching India‘s rural poor, and more specifically, backward ...