‘3.4 crore escaped poverty in UP in 5 years, most in India’

Nearly 13.5 crore people moved out of multi-dimensional poverty between 2015-16 and 2019-21 in India with the fastest reduction seen in UP, followed by Bihar, MP, Odisha and Rajasthan, a report released by government think tank Niti Aayog showed on Monday. The country registered a significant decline of 9.89 percentage points in the number of multi-dimensionally poor from 24.8% in 2015-16 to 14.9% in 2019-2021, according to the report.

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