Bihar has registered a record decline in poverty between 2015-16 and 2019-21, the steepest among various states, state’s planning and development minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav said on Friday ...

Further, according to the NITI Aayog's Multidimensional Poverty Index (2023), Bihar's poverty rate fell from 51.91% in 2015-16 to 33.76% in 2021-22.

The U.N.’s current poverty line tells us that almost one in 10 people is living in extreme poverty. The higher poverty line for which I make the case tells us that if you live on more than $30 a ...