COVER STORY
'No government schemes have reached me, but whom to complain about? I think it was not in my destiny to enjoy government schemes. I am destined to do hard work.'
Outlook Magazine - 27 December 2021
Intergenerational mobility in India is low. Those born poor are likely to stay poor, as inequities are entrenched. Now consider what two years of school closure will have done to widen the vast gap.
Three siblings lost parents in four days. Their hopes of education now crushed by a battle for survival in Bihar.
Bihar craves fresh policy ideas at the top, and better, more imaginative politics at every level.
The State has repeatedly failed the hard-working and resilient Biharis. The point of this Outlook issue is to look at what makes Bihar so poor. More importantly, what does poverty in the poorest state feel like
With people of Northeast facing inhuman atrocities as security forces get away with murder, it's time this draconian law must go.
How does one determine multidimensional poverty? What are its lacunae? What is the politics behind various poverty indices?
Over the past decade, Bihar has enjoyed two-digit growth, but Biharis remain the poorest. What makes Bihar so poor?
A Bihari labourer whose son passed away while he was trapped in Delhi during the 2020 Covid lockdown, vows never to migrate for work, come what may
Niti Aayog’s prognosis is timely but it has missed the larger picture of irreversible social revolution in Bihar
Intergenerational mobility in India is low. Those born poor are likely to stay poor, as inequities are entrenched. Now consider what two years of school closure will have done to widen the vast gap.
Three siblings lost parents in four days. Their hopes of education now crushed by a battle for survival in Bihar.
Bihar craves fresh policy ideas at the top, and better, more imaginative politics at every level.
The State has repeatedly failed the hard-working and resilient Biharis. The point of this Outlook issue is to look at what makes Bihar so poor. More importantly, what does poverty in the poorest state feel like
With people of Northeast facing inhuman atrocities as security forces get away with murder, it's time this draconian law must go.
How does one determine multidimensional poverty? What are its lacunae? What is the politics behind various poverty indices?
Over the past decade, Bihar has enjoyed two-digit growth, but Biharis remain the poorest. What makes Bihar so poor?
A Bihari labourer whose son passed away while he was trapped in Delhi during the 2020 Covid lockdown, vows never to migrate for work, come what may
Niti Aayog’s prognosis is timely but it has missed the larger picture of irreversible social revolution in Bihar
OTHER STORIES
The Musahar community remains at the lowest rung of society and far away from grand schemes of successive governments and policy-makers in Bihar. Here's why
If Bihar is the poorest state, Kishanganj and adjoining Seemanchal districts are its poorest—a flood-ravaged spread of desolation. Snapshots of a crippling life in Bihar’s poorest district
In what direction is Bihar’s double-engine train moving? While the Niti Aayog report should have been a matter of collective shame, the Nitish Kumar government invariably looks for a shroud of denial.
Benefits of social schemes barely reach the most needy despite claims of success. About 52 per cent of Bihar’s population is deprived of nutritious food, while 45.62 per cent of pregnant women do not get health benefits.
