It should hopefully be clear to BBM and our policymakers that unless they tackle agrarian reform first, nothing they are thinking of doing will make our agricultural sector more productive.

In the region, India’s extreme poverty rate dropped to 5.3 per cent in 2022-23 from 27.1 percent in 2011-12, according to the latest estimates released by the World Bank.

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“The percentage of households covered by 5G (all spectrum bands) rose by 5.3 percentage points, from 89.0% in 2023 to 94.3% in 2024. This represents a year-on-year increase of 6.0%.

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About 39 percent of the city’s children were living in poverty in 2014, well more than twice the poverty rate for children across the state, according to the 2016 Kids Count Data Book, a report ...

India has made substantial strides in social protection, expanding coverage from 22% in 2016 to 64.3% in 2025. Poverty has ...

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