This paper estimates and decomposes multidimensional poverty in 82 natural regions in India using unit data from the … Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS), 2011-12. Multidimensional poverty is measured in the dimensions of health, education … poverty at the sub-national level. Results indicate that 43% of India's population are multidimensional poor with large …

Among countries with comparable levels of income, India has one of the more progressive disability policy frameworks …

-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus … year of birth, the incidence of any disability, locomotor disability and polio-related disability declined by 61.4%, 57 …