- NITI Aayog has recently released the National Multidimensional Poverty Index. According to its data, between 2015-16 and 2019-21, the number of persons living in multidimensional poverty in the country has dropped from 24.85 per cent to 14.96 per cent.
- Uttar Pradesh has registered the highest decline in the number of poor with 3.43 crore people, followed by Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.
NITI Aayog
- NITI Aayog is a new institution formed by the Government of India to replace the Planning Commission. In January 2015, a cabinet resolution giving information about this new institute was issued.
- The institute will serve as a think tank of the government and provide directional and policy dynamism to it.
- NITI Aayog will provide relevant critical and technical advice to the government at the central and state levels on key policy drivers.
- This will include matters relating to national and international imports on the economic front, dissemination of best practices within the country as well as from other countries, incorporation of new policy ideas and thematic advocacy.