Andhra Pradesh, which is performing well on most indicators considered for Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) such as housing, electricity, cooking fuel, school attendance and bank accounts, still lags behind in several key areas like access to drinking water, years of schooling, sanitation, child adolescent mortality and nutrition.
The findings are part of the baseline report of MPI released by NITI Aayog in November 2021.
MPI is a measure which explores poverty beyond income deprivations and is a tool for policymakers working for the Sustainable Development Goals, 2020 agenda. NITI Aayog released the baseline report of MPI and the report presented the status of headcount ratios, intensity of poverty, and MPI value of India and all the States and Union Territories (UTs).
