Headline inflation in India fell below 5% in April, reaching the Reserve Bank of India's "comfort zone" for the first time in more than three years, financial daily Business Standard reports.
Last year, India received below-normal rains in the first half of the season, which left vast swaths of the country reeling under a drought.
Last year, India received below-normal rain in the first half of the June-September monsoon season, and while it picked up in some areas from late August, large parts of west and south India didn't benefit.
The wholesale price index, the main gauge of inflation in India, dipped below 7% for the first time in three years in January, and stayed below that mark in February.
Rainfall in India as a whole is 20% below the 50-year average and, with the monsoon season half over, India is facing the possibility of a full-blown drought in some regions.
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Mining information thrown up by the 2005 economic census covering more than 42 million enterprises, they found schedule castes owned only 9.8% of all enterprises in India in 2005, well below their 16.4% share of the total population.
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However, the wholesale-price inflation, the main gauge of inflation in India, eased in April to below 5%, a level the central bank says it is comfortable with.
India did least well, cutting the share below the poverty line from 60% to 42% between 1981 and 2005.
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For one, the authorities don't have proper data on the very poor - officially, 37% of India's 1.2 billion people live below the poverty line.
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Of India's 90m poorest households (most of them below the official poverty line), half now own watches, over a third have radios and even more own bicycles.
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They are a "middle caste" in northern India's rigid social hierarchy -- above the lowest untouchables but below the Brahmins and feudal landowners.
By contrast, though India's annualised growth rate of around 6% this year is below China's heady levels, it is impressive against a backdrop of global turmoil.
Although India is seeing rapid growth, more than 40% of its population still lives below the poverty line.
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The outlook for the winter wheat crop is also poor, with India's main reservoirs, a source for irrigation canals, one-third below their seasonal average.
Even the chief of India's Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, agrees that the drop in poverty is well below the government's own targets.
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