It took nearly four-and-half years of intense micro-planning and effective implementation, coordinated by the local self-government department of the state government, to make this announcement

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan will make an announcement in the state Assembly on Saturday, November 1, 2025, that the state lifted 64,006 families who were identified as extremely poor in 2021 shortly after his government took over. The southern state will become the first Indian state to declare itself as extreme poverty-free, 69 years after its formation on November 1, 1956.

It took nearly four-and-half years of intense micro-planning and effective implementation, coordinated by the local self-government department of the state government, to make this announcement. Several government d

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