<p style=”margin-bottom: 13px; text-align: center;”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:115%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><b><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”line-height:115%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”>SOURCE – INDIAN EXPRESS</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p style=”margin-bottom: 13px; text-align: center;”><span style=”font-size:11pt”><span style=”line-height:115%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><b><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”line-height:115%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”>GS PAPER – 3</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
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<h1><span style=”font-size:24pt”><span style=”line-height:25.0pt”><span style=”vertical-align:baseline”><span style=”font-family:"Times New Roman",serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><strong>CONTEXT</strong> </span></span><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”font-weight:normal”>- <span style=”color:black”>NITI Aayog preparing Multidimensional Poverty Index to rank states/UTs.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h1>
<h1><span style=”font-size:24pt”><span style=”line-height:25.0pt”><span style=”vertical-align:baseline”><span style=”font-family:"Times New Roman",serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:black”><span style=”font-weight:normal”><strong>ABOUT</strong> –</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h1>
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<li style=”margin-left:8px”><span style=”font-size:24pt”><span style=”line-height:25.0pt”><span style=”vertical-align:baseline”><span style=”font-family:"Times New Roman",serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#3e3e3e”><span style=”font-weight:normal”>NITI Aayog said it is at an advanced stage for preparation of a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) parameter dashboard to rank states and Union Territories, along with a State Reform Action Plan (SRAP)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-left:8px”><span style=”font-size:24pt”><span style=”line-height:25.0pt”><span style=”vertical-align:baseline”><span style=”font-family:"Times New Roman",serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#3e3e3e”><span style=”font-weight:normal”>The Global MPI is part of the government’s decision to monitor the performance of the country on 29 select global indices</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-left:8px”><span style=”font-size:24pt”><span style=”line-height:25.0pt”><span style=”vertical-align:baseline”><span style=”font-family:"Times New Roman",serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#3e3e3e”><span style=”font-weight:normal”>“The objective of the Global Indices to Drive Reforms and Growth (GIRG) exercise is to fulfil the need to measure and monitor India’s performance on various important social and economic parameters and enable the utilization of these indices as tools for self-improvement, bring about reforms in policies, while improving last-mile implementation of government schemes</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-left:8px”><span style=”font-size:24pt”><span style=”line-height:25.0pt”><span style=”vertical-align:baseline”><span style=”font-family:"Times New Roman",serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#3e3e3e”><span style=”font-weight:normal”>Global MPI is an international measure of multidimensional poverty covering 107 developing countries. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-left:8px”><span style=”font-size:24pt”><span style=”line-height:25.0pt”><span style=”vertical-align:baseline”><span style=”font-family:"Times New Roman",serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#3e3e3e”><span style=”font-weight:normal”>It was first developed in 2010 by Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and United Nations Development Programme for UNDP’’s Human Development Reports</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-left:8px”><span style=”font-size:24pt”><span style=”line-height:25.0pt”><span style=”vertical-align:baseline”><span style=”font-family:"Times New Roman",serif”><span style=”font-size:12.0pt”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#3e3e3e”><span style=”font-weight:normal”> The MPI measures acute poverty and people experiencing multiple deprivations, for example, those who are both undernourished and do not have safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and clean fuel. These indicators are set to minimum international agreed standards in basic functioning.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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