In rural areas, the ST community had the highest poverty rate in 2011-12, at 49.5%, followed by SCs and OBCs. By 2023-24, the poverty rate among STs had declined to 12.2%.

India’s latest Socioeconomic and Caste Census (SECC) paints a stark picture of widespread rural poverty and deprivation.

India just saw its biggest spike in coronavirus cases in 24 hours with 6,000 new reported infections, as an estimated 3 million seek shelter from a powerful cyclone and tens of thousands have no ...

Poor families, for whom food makes up 60% of household expenditure, have felt the strongest pinch. Rural food costs have risen by 28% since 2019; onion prices by an eye-watering 51%.

The World Bank says that India has made radical strides in eliminating extreme poverty. The reality on the ground is more complicated.

The pandemic is sending India's poor into the abyss Already rife with inequality, the pandemic has distributed suffering unequally among India's underclass ...

A dozen women in this village dig ditches and fill potholes with dirt, each of them earning a little more than $2 a day as part of a government jobs program for the rural poor. “This work gives ...

The act guarantees the government will provide 100 days of work every year to every rural household in India -- there are no reliable figures on exactly how many of these there are -- at an ...

Rather Than Uplifting its Poorest Citizens, the Country's $9 Billion Rural Jobs Program Has Kept Them Down ...

Exit polls in India suggest Narendra Modi's alliance will secure a third term as prime minister with a big majority. High on his to-do list will be improving incomes so that most of the country's ...