A total of 30,658 families (47.89%) out of 64,006 extremely poor families, identified as part of the State government’s wide-ranging poverty eradication programme, have moved out of extreme poverty as per the latest status report.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday declared the completion of the first phase of the programme to eradicate poverty, which was launched as per a decision taken in the first Cabinet meeting of the current Left Democratic Front (LDF) government on May 20, 2021.
As per the ground-level survey conducted across the State in January 2022, a total of 1,03,099 individuals from 64,006 families were identified as extremely poor. The first phase of the poverty eradication project was proposed to be completed in November 2023 with a deadline to uplift at least 40% of those living in extreme poverty. Local bodies prepared micro plans for each of the families to identify their immediate as well as long-time needs. A total of 77,555 immediate projects, 36,433 short-term projects, and 30,696 long-term projects, were formulated by the local bodies for these families, with an amount of ₹1,401.1 crore estimated to be required for these projects.
