MUMBAI, July 12 (Xinhua) -- India lifted 271 million people out of poverty over a 10-year period from 2005-2006 to 2015-2016, said a United Nations report released late Thursday.
According to the report, India registered a fast absolute reduction of poverty in the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) value.
The poverty reduction was measured on a significant drop in some deficiencies of the 10 parameters including assets, cooking fuel, sanitation and nutrition.
However, despite the massive gains achieved in reducing multidimensional poverty, 373 million Indians continued to experience acute deprivations and additionally, 8.8 percent of the population lived in severe multidimensional poverty and 19.3 percent of the population was vulnerable to multidimensional poverty, the report said.
Developed in 2010 by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the global index tracks 101 countries on deprivations across 10 indicators on health, education, and standard of living. It also tracks poverty in terms of the deprivation faced by people in their daily lives.
"The MPI captures the huge progress India has made in reducing multidimensional poverty across the country, while also providing a more complete picture of who is deprived, how they are deprived, and where they live," said Shoko Noda, the UNDP's India resident representative.
The poorest parts of the country are more quickly lifting people out of poverty demonstrates India's commitment to ensuring no one is left behind, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals and the government's own priorities, Noda said.
