scrapers, fancy flyovers, massive shopping malls and multiplexes. However, what are co-existing are problem of poverty …, inequality of income, exclusion, lack of basic infrastructural facilities etc., in urban areas. In India, most studies on poverty … and academicians. Though, both rural and urban areas struggle with the developmental problems the picture of urban poverty …

's largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data … opportunities under the scheme have cut poverty during the agricultural lean season by as much as one half while we find no effect …