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There volition beryllium nary alteration successful the proviso of foodgrains to Kerala nether the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) adjacent arsenic the State authorities has declared itself escaped from utmost poverty, Food Minister Pralhad Joshi informed the Lok Sabha connected Wednesday.
In a written reply, the Minister said utmost poorness is not a criterion for recognition of eligible households successful the AAY guidelines.
“As utmost poorness is not immoderate criterion for recognition of eligible households successful the AAY guidelines, nary alteration successful the proviso of foodgrains to Kerala is envisaged for the present,” Mr. Joshi said.
Under the National Food Security Act, 35 kg of foodgrains per household per period is provided to those covered nether AAY, and 5 kg per idiosyncratic per period for precedence households.
The Centre has developed a broad scale known arsenic the National Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) to measurement poverty.
As per the study ‘National Multidimensional Poverty Index: A Progress Review 2023,’ released by NITI Aayog, the proportionality of colonisation successful multidimensional poorness declined from 24.85% to 14.96% betwixt 2015-16 and 2019-21, indicating that astir 13.5 crore radical escaped poorness during the period.
The proportionality of colonisation successful multidimensional poorness successful Kerala declined from 0.7% to 0.55% betwixt the aforesaid period, indicating that astir 53,239 radical escaped multidimensional poorness successful the State.
As per NITI Aayog, multidimensional poorness successful India is estimated to person declined from 29.17% successful 2013-14 to 11.28% successful 2022-23, implying that 24.8 crore radical escaped poorness during this period.
On November 1, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan declared that the State was escaped from utmost poverty, successful a peculiar league of the Assembly.
