GS2 · 10 marks · 150 words

The first step to eradicating poverty is reliable poverty assessment for program design, implementation, and monitoring. In this context discuss the methodology and significance of NITI Aayog's National Multidimensional Poverty Index.

Answered by 4 toppers · CSE 2023–2024

Poverty and HungerPolicy Design and ImplementationConstitutional Bodies

Syllabus: Issues relating to poverty and hunger.

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The toppers’ answers

NausheenAIR 9 · CSE 2023 · 83 wordsTheir whole copy

Opening · a figure

According to NITI Aayog Multidimensional poverty Index, 13.5 crore Indians have come out of poverty in 5 years.

Body · points and prose

Diagram
* Reliable estimates first step * (1) Helps in assessing the extent and type of poverty * (2) Helps dealing with inclusionary error, e.g. LPG subsidies * (3) Adjusting resource demand required for dealing with poverty

Methodology of NITI Aayog

(1) Going beyond the traditional income or nutrition/calories approach.

(2) Including clean water, sanitation, health outcomes, education, electricity equally in the estimates.

Significance

→ (1) Doing away with reliance on foreign organisation which are often biased.

→ (2) Attacking poverty in multiple dimensions by addressing its root cause.

Close · a framework

Thus, the methodology has been a right initiative in fulfilling SDG-1 (No Poverty).

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