India's landless poor: Amid rising rural poverty and lower access to land, empowering this group must be priority
6 years, 5 months ago

India's landless poor: Amid rising rural poverty and lower access to land, empowering this group must be priority

Firstpost  

The landless are, in fact, the “poorest of the poor” – according to the Government of India’s own admission, for whom, among others, it launched an insurance policy, Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana, in 2007. The Socio-Economic and Caste Census of 2011, which acknowledged and counted landlessness as a major indicator of poverty, put the ‘households with no land’ at 56.41 percent of total rural households or 101 million households. Assured possession and equitable distribution of land is a lasting source for peace and prosperity and will pave way for economic and social justice in India.” The landless are, in fact, the “poorest of the poor” – according to the Government of India’s own admission, for whom, among others, it launched an insurance policy, Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana, in 2007. Of the 364 million MPI poor, 113 million — or 8.6 percent of India’s population — live in “severe poverty”.

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Odisha to offer land to those with less than four decimals under Vasundhara scheme: State revenue minister
3 months ago

Odisha to offer land to those with less than four decimals under Vasundhara scheme: State revenue minister

New Indian Express  

SAMBALPUR: Revenue and Disaster Management minister Suresh Pujari on Saturday said people with less than four decimal land will also be considered landless after the amendment of Odisha Land Settlement Act and provided land under the Vasundhara scheme. The minister said the amendment has been proposed in section 2 of Odisha Land Settlement Act. Those with less than four decimal …

Basic survival no longer an issue in India, says Niti Aayog
8 months, 1 week ago

Basic survival no longer an issue in India, says Niti Aayog

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: India has made significant progress in eliminating poverty, especially in the past nine years, and according to Niti Aayog’s SDG Index 2023-24, the country is expected to achieve the SDG target 1.2 of halving multidimensional poverty much ahead of 2030. In 2022-23, it further dropped to 11.28%, with 24.8 crore people moving out of multidimensional poverty between 2013-14 …

415 mn Indians no longer poor, says UN
1 year, 8 months ago

415 mn Indians no longer poor, says UN

Live Mint  

As many as 415 million Indians moved out of poverty in the 15-year period between 2005/2006 and 2019/2021, the UN said in a report on Tuesday. “Countries halved their MPI in periods as short as four to 12 years, demonstrating the feasibility of the Sustainable Development Goal target of halving poverty according to national definitions within 15 years,” it added. …

J&K Govt Approves Land to Landless Poor; LG Sinha Calls it 'Historic'
1 year, 8 months ago

J&K Govt Approves Land to Landless Poor; LG Sinha Calls it 'Historic'

News 18  

In a landmark decision, the Jammu & Kashmir Government has approved a proposal for allotment of 5 Marlas of land each to landless Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin beneficiaries. Addressing a press conference at Raj Bhawan in Srinagar, the LG said this was a new beginning for thousands of landless families, said that “this historic decision will prove to …

New study claims major reduction in poverty in India between 2011-17
5 years, 1 month ago

New study claims major reduction in poverty in India between 2011-17

Op India  

As per the recent research study about the status of poverty in India, there is a remarkable decline in the number of people living in poverty from 2011 to 2017. As per a report in the New Indian Express, The study claims that as per the Tendulkar poverty line it, poverty in India reduced from 14.9 % in 2011 to …

Farm sector doles: Band-aid solutions hide jobless growth; India's agrarian economy needs liberalisation, not govt handouts
6 years ago

Farm sector doles: Band-aid solutions hide jobless growth; India's agrarian economy needs liberalisation, not govt handouts

Firstpost  

Instead of addressing the dwindling jobs and agrarian crisis, the government has responded by announcing a Targeted Basic Income scheme for farmers. In spite of its huge budgetary allocation Rs 75,000 crore per year, which exceeds National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme budget, it offers very little purchasing capacity to individuals, let alone potential to create sizable jobs. It is in …

India's landless poor: Post-liberalisation era brought in wealth to a stressed economy but did little to end rural poverty
6 years, 5 months ago

India's landless poor: Post-liberalisation era brought in wealth to a stressed economy but did little to end rural poverty

Firstpost  

Land reform was a major policy thrust area in the first three decades after Independence during which zamindari was abolished, a land ceiling was imposed and surplus and wasteland were distributed among the landless. In June 2016, three top economists of the International Monetary Fund — proponent of the neo-liberal economic policy — created a brouhaha among the economists world …

A new paradigm for eliminating poverty
6 years, 5 months ago

A new paradigm for eliminating poverty

Deccan Chronicle  

According to the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index of the United Nations Development Programme and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, more than 270 million people in India moved out of poverty in the decade since 2005-06 and the poverty rate in the country nearly halved over the 10-year period. Capacity building is an essential component of the bottom-up …

The map of rural deprivation
7 years, 2 months ago

The map of rural deprivation

The Hindu  

With the Union Budget to be presented on February 1, it is hoped that the Finance Minister will make a significantly higher allocation for investment in infrastructure. Based on indicators The rural census, or SECC, mapped deprivation using seven indicators: ‘households with a kuchha house; without an adult member in working age; headed by a woman and without an adult …

Rural distress
9 years, 1 month ago

Rural distress

The Hindu  

AS India reels under the onslaught of the second drought in two years, which has forced thousands of farmers to commit suicide and placed in peril the livelihoods of crores of workers and cultivators, it is time to take stock of the central role of agriculture in the Indian economy, for the Indian population, and the number of small farmers …

670 million in rural areas live on rs 33 per day- India TV News
9 years, 8 months ago

670 million in rural areas live on rs 33 per day- India TV News

India TV News  

.75% of rural households in India have a monthly income of less than Rs 5,000.51% of households make a living from manual labour.28% of households do not have mobile phones or any form of communication More than 70 million rural households face some form of exclusion, either from assets or socio-economic benefits, according to data released by the Socio-Economic Caste …

92% rural households have monthly income of less than Rs 10,000-IndiaTV News
9 years, 8 months ago

92% rural households have monthly income of less than Rs 10,000-IndiaTV News

India TV News  

New Delhi: A staggering 92% of the 17.9 crore households in rural India have an income of less than Rs 10,000 per month and nearly 75 percent of them survive on a monthly income of less than Rs 5, 000. This is the finding of the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 for Rural India released on Friday that also …

30 per cent of rural households landless, live off manual labour
9 years, 8 months ago

30 per cent of rural households landless, live off manual labour

The Hindu  

Nearly 19 per cent of India’s rural population in 2011 lacked at least one of seven socio-economic parameters used to estimate deprivation that include source of income, the presence of an able and literate adult and quality dwelling. The second most common form of deprivation was literacy with close to a quarter – 23.5 per cent — of rural households …

Land bill row: India's farm economy is broke; more subsidies and freebies won't fix it
9 years, 10 months ago

Land bill row: India's farm economy is broke; more subsidies and freebies won't fix it

Firstpost  

The magnitude of farmer suicides has not come down despite several lakh crore of subsidies and giveaways to agriculture. It is time we directed our money elsewhere, for subsidies cannot make unviable farming viable The suicide of farmer Gajendra Singh in full public view at an Aam Aadmi Party rally in Delhi yesterday should bring national focus to the issue …

Arun Jaitley says that 30 crore landless people will get jobs if land bill passes | IndiaTV News
9 years, 11 months ago

Arun Jaitley says that 30 crore landless people will get jobs if land bill passes | IndiaTV News

India TV News  

New Delhi: About 30 crore landless people will get employment in the industrial corridors following amendments to the land acquisition bill, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today. The Land Acquisition Bill we are bringing, as per that the industrial corridors which would be set up in the country, those backward people, the 300 million landless people would get employment opportunities," …

Tough political decisions needed to provide land to landless: Ramesh
11 years, 4 months ago

Tough political decisions needed to provide land to landless: Ramesh

Firstpost  

Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday declared Kannur in Kerala as the first zero landless district in the country and said that “political will” was required to implement such a programme on an all-India basis. Kannur : Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday declared Kannur in Kerala as the first zero landless district in the country and said …

Promised land
11 years, 7 months ago

Promised land

The Hindu  

Last October, the Ministry of Rural Development promised thousands of landless Jan Satyagraha agitators that it would draft a new land reforms policy, correct the inequitable distribution of land and safeguard the rights of traditional forest dwellers. In the event that mining is taken up after getting consent, the sabha would retain ownership of the land and receive 50 per …

Rural areas record steep reduction in poverty rate
11 years, 7 months ago

Rural areas record steep reduction in poverty rate

The Hindu  

There has been a steep reduction in poverty rate in rural areas compared to urban areas. The decline in poverty was comparatively steeper in rural areas, where the percentage of people living below poverty line fell to 25.8 per cent from 42 per cent. The poverty rate declined in rural areas by nearly 17 percentage points, between 2004-05 and 2011-12 …

Small measure, big gain
11 years, 8 months ago

Small measure, big gain

The Hindu  

Will ten cents of land for each of the landless and near-landless households transform the poverty scenario in rural India? The soon-to-be-tabled National Right to Homestead Bill proposes to seek legislative approval for providing no less than 4,360 sq feet plot to each of the 31 per cent landless and 30 per cent near-landless households who own on an average …

Landless poor to rally for “right to shelter”
12 years ago

Landless poor to rally for “right to shelter”

The Hindu  

Ten thousand landless and homeless people plan to gather at Ram Lila Maidan next month in a bid to persuade the government that the “right to shelter” needs concrete legal backing. Last year, he led about 60,000 landless poor, Adivasis and Dalits in a padayatra from Gwalior towards Delhi, resulting in a deal with the government to implement land reform, …

A patch to call their own
12 years, 5 months ago

A patch to call their own

The Hindu  

The frustration behind the Jan Satyagraha, the long march of the landless to Delhi, was justified. Reforms meant to help the poor access land have been on the policy agenda since Independence, but the ground situation has hardly changed. The 10-point agreement he signed with Ekta Parishad has the potential to lead to a comprehensive new policy that would reduce …

The landless end march at Agra
12 years, 5 months ago

The landless end march at Agra

The Hindu  

Thousands of landless poor aborted their march to Delhi on Thursday, accepting the government's promises to initiate land reform and the possibility of statutory backing for the right to shelter, homestead and agricultural land. Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh signed a 10-point agreement in Agra — barely 10 days after refusing to sign a similar deal at the march’s starting …

Landless poor on long march to Delhi
12 years, 5 months ago

Landless poor on long march to Delhi

The Hindu  

Dhanalakshmi, a 22-year-old from the Paliyar hill tribe of Tamil Nadu, is a long way from home. On Tuesday, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh and Minister of State for Commerce Jyotiraditya Scindia flew to Gwalior in a last-ditch effort to convince the organisers — a land reform people’s movement called Ekta Parishad — to call off the march and accept …

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