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Zero poverty state: Guidelines ready, digital database on anvil in U.P.

Setting the ball rolling to make Uttar Pradesh a “zero poverty state” by lifting poor families above the poverty line within a year, the Uttar Pradesh government has issued guidelines for the project and will prepare a digital database of the impoverished families. Launching the project on October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, chief minister Yogi Adityanath had termed Uttar Pradesh’s zero poverty drive the country’s most ambitious poverty alleviation programme. Now, the state government has prepared the guidelines for the project with the focus on elimination of extreme poverty in the state, panchayati raj minister Om Prakash Rajbhar said on Friday. Elaborating on the panchayati raj department’s plan to prepare a digital database of impoverished families on the basis of measurable benchmark of poverty, Rajbhar said the upward mobility of poor families and their livelihood will be recorded on the zero poverty portal.

Hindustan Times

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