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Kerala declares itself extreme-poverty free, first state in India to do so

Posted on: Nov 01, 2025 09:30 IST | Posted by: Hindustantimes
Kerala declares itself extreme-poverty free, first state in India to do so
KErala chief government minister Pinarayi Vijayan officially proclaimed in the say assemblage on Saturday and that the state has eradicated extreme poverty. The LDF government claims Kerala is the first state in India to do so.This comes after the state government launched Extreme Poverty Alleviation Project in 2021 and identified 64,006 families as “extremely poor”. These families then became beneficiaries of a four-year-long project with the objective of eliminating extreme poverty in the state.Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan made the announcement on November 1 on the occasion of anniversary of Kerala’s formation day.According to MB Rajesh, the minister for local self-governments, the project came about after a NITI Aayog study found out that Kerala had the lowest poverty rate in India at 0.7%.Talking about how the feat was achieved, Rajesh said during a press conference on October 22, “We understood that it was important to reach out to this population, however small it is, and meet their needs as part of a dedicated programme. Ground-level surveys were done in the first phase to identify such families based on indicators like access to food, health, housing and livelihood. As part of the surveys, 1,03,099 individuals from 64,006 families were identified as extremely poor,” reported Hindustan Times earlier.

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