The NITI Aayog has released an exhaustive 218-page report on multidimensional poverty in India that seeks to get a more holistic and realistic measure of poverty in the country. No big surprise that Bihar leads, with an estimated 51.9% of people of the state being categorised as poor, according to the report. Instead of the traditional single parameter consumption expenditure…

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