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Millennium

Development

Goals India 2015Extreme Poverty and Hunger



Targets• Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, theproportion o people who!e in"ome i! le!! thanone dollar a dayo Poverty Head #ount $atio

o Poverty %ap $atioo &hare o poore!t 'uintile in national "on!umption

• Target 2: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, theproportion o people who !u(er rom hungero Prevalen"e o underweight "hildren under three year! o age



Poverty Head Count Ratio



The official Poverty Head Count Ratio (PHCR) estimates are based on the Tendulkarmethodology and PHCR estimates using this methodology are available for 1993-94,2004-5 and 2011-12 separately for rural urban and Total at the all India and State. / UTlevel. The trend in poverty reduction is evident from the decline in the estimates of

number of people below poverty line. The actual reduction in the numbers of poorhappened during 2004- 05 to 2011-12, when nearly 138 million people were lifted abovethe poverty line at all India level.



Defined as the share of a country’s national consumption or incomethat accrues to the poorest quintile (fifth) of the population. Poorestquintile is the bottom 20% of the population, ranked by income orconsumption levels.



Under- nutrition is substantially higher in rural areas than in urban areas.Under-nutrition is much more common for children of mothers whose bodymass index is below 18.5 than for children whose mothers are not underweight.Also, under -nutrition decreases steadily with increase in the wealth index ofthe household.



• The main determinant! o poverty are

• )i* la"+ o in"ome and pur"ha!ing powerattributable to la"+ o produ"tive employmentand "on!iderable underemployment and not tola"+ o employment per !e

• )ii* a "ontinuou! in"rea!e in the pri"e o ood,e!pe"ially ood-grain! whi"h a""ount or .0-/0per "ent o the "on!umption ba!+et and

• )iii* inade'ua"y o !o"ial inra!tru"ture, a(e"tingthe 'uality o lie o the people and theiremployability



Government of India’s initiatives to tackle the problem

• Mahatma Gandhi National RuralEmployment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)

• Aajeevika-National Rural LivelihoodsMission (NRLM)

• Pradhan Mantry Gram adak !ojana(PMG!)

• "ndira A#aas !ojana ("A!)

• $he %a#aharlal Nehru National &r'anRene#al Mission (%NN&RM)

• National &r'an Livelihoods Mission

• "nterated hild *evelopment ervices("*)

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