India’s First “Extreme Poverty-free” State

  • On the occasion of Kerala Piravi or Kerala Day on 1st November 2025, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced that the state has eradicated extreme poverty, making it the first state in the country to achieve the feat.
  • Kerala's journey towards eradicating extreme poverty began in 2021 with the launch of the Extreme Poverty Eradication Project - one of the flagship programmes under Chief Minister Vijayan's second term.
  • The mission's idea was both simple and bold - to identify every single household living in extreme poverty through detailed local surveys and then craft customised solutions for each family instead of ....
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