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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.
In 2022, athletes claimed they were asked to wind up training early at Thyagraj Stadium so that the IAS couple could walk their dog. Then came the memes and public outrage.
Instead of buying more Mirages outright in early 2000s, the requirement was tweaked in favour of a medium-weight, multi-role fighter with Mirage-like performance.
Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.
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.