For a start, In year 2024 India became one of the most populous country of world with
1,452,875,501 but Poverty in India decreased by 10% as per UNDP India , as per oxford
university reports before COVID, 55% of people escaped extreme poverty. In 2012 it
was 22.8% that decreased to 11.9% it’s interesting to know how country fought with
extreme poverty still long way to go.

Facts that depict breathtaking journey of ten years. India has transformed their many
sectors like health, education and sanitization.
resources were made available to every people like free food, education and health
services that is provided by government and various international NGOs like UNICEF,
outreach international and many more have helped to curb poverty In India.

Factors that helped in fall of extreme poverty

India is vast and have more rural areas where some of the villages now with improved
facilities in Infrastructure, electricity, sanitization and health have helped reduced
extreme poverty.

Nutrition in India

Healthy life and food are basic need of any age group with right nutrition one can focus
on education or can get fit for work. As per UN nations India, government had
introduced many schemes like aanganwadi yogna that gives free day meal in schools to
meet the basic requirement of nutrition.
schemes like POSHAN Abhiyaan launched in year 2018, aims to achieve improvement
in nutritional status of Adolescent Girls, Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers in a
time bound manner by adopting a synergised and result oriented approach furthermore
annamitra is an NGO that also provides mid-day meals in schools.

Electricity in Indian village

Electricity can bring life to villages as children now no more need to study under dark,
As per India government of India ministry of power in 26671275 villages were electrified
in year 2021 to 2021, nearly 10,000 villages in every state got electricity moreover
innovative solar plans also helped in electrifying villages.

Sanitization in rural areas

Swaach bharat mission have helped rural areas to achieve the aim of open defecation
free India it also provided pure drinking water. 100 million households got toilets and
granted pacific amount to build the same in house and 500 hundred million people gain
access to toilets across 630,000 villages
Toilets facilities have been available in schools, hospitals, government offices and in
households that reduced disease and pollution in villages especially women’s and
children are now free from open defecation.

Improvement in health sectors

Health care sectors in rural areas have shown significant growth in last decade
Ayushman Arogya mandir is a programme by government that helps building health
centres and provide healthcare workers in villages across India, it has shown
remarkable 30% increase in health centres and 50% increase in healthcare workers.