Tomorrow, we launch Economy by Mrunal with Pillar 6C: Poverty, Inequality, MGNREGA, and Other Schemes (📖 pp. 1128–1153).
🎯 Targets to complete:
Pillar 6C: Poverty, Inequality, MGNREGA, and Schemes 📊
- HRD – Poverty & Related Aspects 📉 – Explore poverty as a barrier to human resource development.
- Poverty: Measurement & Elimination 📈 – Study methods like headcount ratio and strategies for eradication.
- Inequality: Measuring Methods in Foreign Countries 🌍 – Learn global indices like Gini coefficient and Palma ratio.
- Indian Methods for Inequality 📊 – Understand India-specific tools like consumption-based Gini.
- NITI MPI 🏛 – Dive into NITI Aayog’s Multidimensional Poverty Index, noting 24.82 crore people escaped poverty in the last 9 years (from 29.17% in 2013–14 to 11.28% in 2022–23, as per NFHS data).
- Poverty Removal 💸 – Review comprehensive government strategies for poverty alleviation.
- MGNREGA 🚜 – Explore Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ensuring rural job security.
- Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana 🌱 – Learn about DDU-GKY for skilling rural poor youth, with updates via the unified IT platform kaushalpanjee.nic.in.
- DISHA Committees 🛡 – Understand District Development Coordination & Monitoring Committees (under MoRD) for scheme implementation.
- Poverty Removal: Direct Rupee – UBI 💰 – Examine Universal Basic Income as a direct cash transfer model.
🔑 Focus on poverty indices, NFHS & NITI data, and employment-linked poverty alleviation schemes.