CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Making anti-poverty programs more effective, such as the Public Distribution System (PDS), Midday Meal Scheme, MGNREGA, and Housing for All, is the second leg of the strategy to end abject poverty. It offers numerous specific suggestions for improving the effectiveness of each of these critical programs.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pursuant to the decision taken at the first meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 8, 2015, a task force on elimination of poverty in India was constituted by NITI Aayog on March 16, 2015 under the chairmanship of Panagariya.

Detailed explanation-3: -Government had set up a task force on poverty elimination in the country in 2015 under the chairmanship of then NITI Aayog vice chairman Arvind Panagariya. According to Singh’s reply, the report of the task force states that “a consensus in favour of either the Tendulkar or a higher poverty line did not emerge”.

Detailed explanation-4: -As per the baseline report of MPI 2021 released by NITI Aayog, India’s MPI identifies 25.01 per cent of the population as multidimensionally poor, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Ministry of Planning Rao Inderjit Singh said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.