In this episode of the Perspective Prog. based on Multidimensional Poverty. NITI Aayog has recently released the statewise National Multidimensional Poverty Index or MPI in line with the global index released by the United Nations each year. According to Global MPI 2021, India’s rank is 66 out of 109 countries. The National MPI Project is the first attempt in years to define poverty measures and is aimed at deconstructing the Global MPI and creating a globally aligned and yet customised India MPI. The MPI is based on three dimensions health, education, and standard of living with each having a weighting of onethird in the index. The household micro data collected at the unitlevel for the NFHS serves as the basis of the computation of National MPI. This unit level micro data collected in 201516 has been used in the current MPI report to derive an idea of baseline multidimensional poverty i.e. where the country was with respect to MPI before fullscale roll out of the above mentioned schemes. The MPI identifies 25.01 per cent of the population as multidimensionally poor. The progress of the country with respect to this baseline will be measured using the NFHS5 data collected in 201920.

Guests:
1. Sanyukta Samaddar, Advisor, NITI Aayog
2. Deepshikha Sikarwar, Sr.Editor, The Economic Times
3. Prof. Aman Agarwal, Director, Indian Institute of Finance

Anchor: Vishal Dahiya

Producer: Amit Srivastav, Sagheer Ahmad

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