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While the state government claims that 98.58 per cent of eligible beneficiaries have carried out mustering, it has avoided addressing the shortfall of 10 lakh names.
The announcement by the Pinarayi Vijayan government, however, has sparked debate over its criteria and beneficiaries.
According to NITI Aayog estimates, in 2022-23, 0.48 per cent of Kerala's population lived below the poverty line as per the multidimensional poverty index.
They combed the old records at Kalloorkkad and Thodupuzha police stations, checking every missing person file since 1998.
Vasantha was 59 years old when, in the middle of 2021, Anchuthengu Panchayat in Thiruvananthapuram prepared the list of extreme poor.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will officially declare Kerala as 'extreme poverty'-free in the Assembly on November 1.
Wayanad poverty remains a significant concern despite government claims of eradication.
'Without an increase in our daily wage, proclaiming Kerala as a state free of extreme poverty is a grave lie propagated by the government,' they wrote.
In a district officially declared free of extreme poverty, there are still many like Shobha, without a home of their own and with no one to help.
A Plus Two Humanities student at Padiyur Government Higher Secondary School.
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