While presenting this year’s Union budget, the finance minister made a claim that the hefty package of capital expenditures would ‘crowd in’ private investments. The assertion implie...

The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed millions of people into poverty and hunger. The United Nations estimates that between 720 and 811 million people faced hunger in 2020 — about 161 million more th...

The Jharkhand branch of the Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti, an NGO that also works for strengthening literacy campaign, has been running over 200 community learning centres for motivating children of under...

As many as 65,000 below-poverty-line people had sold paddy to the Jharkhand government last year, unusually large quantities in many cases, setting off suspicion that there could be fake BPL cardholde...

Jharkhand will begin paddy procurement from December 15 and all districts have been directed to be prepared with mandatory logistics for a seamless process ...

Poverty is usually associated with the lack of economic means to survive adequately. Hence income is used as the most common measure of poverty. However, poverty as deprivation has many dimensions tha...

Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh have emerged as the poorest states in India, according to Niti Aayog's first Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report. As per the index, 51.91 per cent popul...

Nearly 10 per cent of the families do not have bank accounts, around 19 per cent of the families do not have proper food grains to last for two weeks. None of the affected families claim to have recei...

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A group of present and former students of Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur, have started a fundraising drive to help 30 school students encountering extreme poverty amid the pandemic with Rs 50...