Jaipur, July 11 (IANS) Union Minister for Culture and Tourism, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, said on Saturday that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Union government has set a target of increasing the tourism sector’s contribution to the national economy from the current six to 10 per cent by 2047. As an interim milestone, the Union government is working to raise tourism’s share to seven per cent by 2030.Addressing the media at his residence, Shekhawat said India’s growing gl…
Latest Poverty Line News & Updates
New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) Pakistan’s own poverty line of 8,484 Pakistani rupee (PKR) as monthly income leaves about 70 million people or 28.9 per cent of the population below the threshold, the highest rate in 11 years and far higher than 21.9 per cent of previous survey (2018-19), a new report has said.The Afghanistan-based news agency Khaama Press said the official line of PKR 8,484, calculated by the cost‑of‑basic‑needs allocates $3.50 a day, far below the World Bank’s $4.20-a-day l…
Islamabad, April 1 (IANS) Poverty has yet again increased in Pakistan with fresh statistics placing nearly half of the population below the poverty line, demonstrating a widening gap between official claims and lived realities, a report has stated. A recent assessment by the Social Policy and Development Centre, an independent research organisation, has revealed that poverty in Pakistan stands at 43.5 per cent, which implies that around 27 million people are living below poverty line, significan…
New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) Pakistan’s socioeconomic crisis is being worsened by rising food inflation and unemployment rates, according to a media report.Maldives Insight cited the World Bank’s data to show that about 45 per cent of the population in Pakistan is classified as living below the Poverty Line (BPL). The country’s unemployment rate remains at a 21-year low, with investment at a 50-year low and gross debt-to-GDP ratio at 71.3 per cent.“All this deepens stagnation, inequality, fi…