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According to report, UP registered biggest decline in number of poor, followed by Bihar, MP, Rajasthan, where 3.77 crore, 2.30 crore and 1.87 crore people escaped poverty in the period.
Madhya Pradesh has seen a reduction in poverty due to its welfare schemes including providing food, electricity and gainful employment across districts.
Subsidies are here to stay. Worryingly, subsidy expenditure will likely increase as Indian politicians try to meet a wider set of aspirations through more diverse freebies.
The study which used UN MPI, based on 12 indicators such as malnutrition, education and sanitation, said rural areas saw the strongest fall in poverty.
Migration in North India isn’t just due to lack of development today. It was shaped by the evolution of labour markets under Sher Shah, Mughals, and the East India Company.
December oil imports from Russia may drop nearly 50%, but Indian buyers already shifting to non-designated Russian entities and opaque trading channels to keep Russian oil flowing.
New Delhi is interested in firming up bilateral agreements for increased trade, mobility, upgrade of Su-30 MKI fighters and the increased range of BrahMos supersonic missiles.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
Kerala’s “model” is an illusion built on the export of labor, not the creation of wealth.
Strip away the Gulf money, and the so-called miracle looks ordinary.
Facts speak louder than ideology:
• Annual remittances (2024–25): ~₹2.16 lakh crore — nearly ₹19,000/month per family.
• Remove this inflow, and Kerala’s per capita income collapses from ~₹2.8 lakh to ~₹1.15 lakh. By the way even with this it is nearly same as Uttarakhand’s ~₹2.7 lakh.
• NRI deposits: ₹3 lakh crore; remittance share: ~20% of India’s total.
Kerala doesn’t manufacture prosperity — it imports it.
Its real export is its people.
If Gulf remittances are proof of “development,” then the Bihari migrant in Delhi or Dubai deserves the same applause.
The myth of the Kerala model survives not on productivity, but on nostalgia and narrative.
Kerala’s “model” is an illusion built on the export of labor, not the creation of wealth.
Strip away the Gulf money, and the so-called miracle looks ordinary.
Facts speak louder than ideology:
• Annual remittances (2024–25): ~₹2.16 lakh crore — nearly ₹19,000/month per family.
• Remove this inflow, and Kerala’s per capita income collapses from ~₹2.8 lakh to ~₹1.15 lakh. By the way even with this it is nearly same as Uttarakhand’s ~₹2.7 lakh.
• NRI deposits: ₹3 lakh crore; remittance share: ~20% of India’s total.
Kerala doesn’t manufacture prosperity — it imports it.
Its real export is its people.
If Gulf remittances are proof of “development,” then the Bihari migrant in Delhi or Dubai deserves the same applause.
The myth of the Kerala model survives not on productivity, but on nostalgia and narrative.
Kerala’s “model” is an illusion built on the export of labor, not the creation of wealth.
Strip away the Gulf money, and the so-called miracle looks ordinary.
Facts speak louder than ideology:
• Annual remittances (2024–25): ~₹2.16 lakh crore — nearly ₹19,000/month per family.
• Remove this inflow, and Kerala’s per capita income collapses from ~₹2.8 lakh to ~₹1.15 lakh. By the way even with this it is nearly same as Uttarakhand’s ~₹2.7 lakh.
• NRI deposits: ₹3 lakh crore; remittance share: ~20% of India’s total.
Kerala doesn’t manufacture prosperity — it imports it.
Its real export is its people.
If Gulf remittances are proof of “development,” then the Bihari migrant in Delhi or Dubai deserves the same applause.
The myth of the Kerala model survives not on productivity, but on nostalgia and narrative.
Kerala’s “model” is an illusion built on the export of labor, not the creation of wealth.
Strip away the Gulf money, and the so-called miracle looks ordinary.
Facts speak louder than ideology:
• Annual remittances (2024–25): ~₹2.16 lakh crore — nearly ₹19,000/month per family.
• Remove this inflow, and Kerala’s per capita income collapses from ~₹2.8 lakh to ~₹1.15 lakh. By the way even with this it is nearly same as Uttarakhand’s ~₹2.7 lakh.
• NRI deposits: ₹3 lakh crore; remittance share: ~20% of India’s total.
Kerala doesn’t manufacture prosperity — it imports it.
Its real export is its people.
If Gulf remittances are proof of “development,” then the Bihari migrant in Delhi or Dubai deserves the same applause.
The myth of the Kerala model survives not on productivity, but on nostalgia and narrative.