Kerala declared free of extreme poverty on Kerala Piravi
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan declared the state free of extreme poverty on Kerala Piravi, 1 November 2025, the first Indian state to make such a declaration.
Summary
On 1 November 2025, Kerala Piravi (state formation day), Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan declared Kerala free of extreme poverty at a special session of the Assembly in Thiruvananthapuram, in a statement under Rule 300. It was the first such declaration by an Indian state. He made the formal public declaration the same day at Central Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram. The opposition UDF walked out, calling the claim a fraud. The declaration closes the Extreme Poverty Eradication Project (EPEP), which the LDF government's first Cabinet meeting adopted in May 2021. Local bodies identified 1,03,099 people in 64,006 families across 1,032 local institutions, based on deprivation in food, health, income and housing, and prepared a micro-plan for each family.
Key facts
- Date/place
- 1 Nov 2025 (Kerala Piravi), Kerala Assembly and Central Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram
- Declared by
- CM Pinarayi Vijayan, statement under Rule 300
- Project
- Extreme Poverty Eradication Project (EPEP), decided May 2021
- Identified
- 64,006 families; 1,03,099 people; 1,032 local institutions
- Criteria
- Food, health, income, housing
- Method
- Micro-plan for each family, led by the Local Self-Government Department
- Opposition
- UDF walked out
Practice MCQs 4 questions
On Kerala Piravi, 1 November 2025, Kerala became the first Indian state to declare itself free of:
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Correct answer: A — Extreme poverty
CM Pinarayi Vijayan declared Kerala free from extreme poverty, the first Indian state to make such a declaration.
How many families were identified as extremely poor under Kerala's Extreme Poverty Eradication Project?
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Correct answer: C — 64,006
The project identified 64,006 families (1,03,099 people) and prepared a micro-plan for each family.
Consider the following statements about Kerala's extreme poverty-free declaration: 1. Families were identified on the basis of deprivation in food, health, income and housing. 2. The declaration was made by the Governor in an address to the Assembly. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Correct answer: A — 1 only
Only 1 is correct. The identification used food, health, income and housing, but the declaration was made by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in a statement under Rule 300, not by the Governor.
Across how many local institutions were the extremely poor families identified under Kerala's Extreme Poverty Eradication Project?
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Correct answer: D — 1,032
LSGD Kerala says 1,03,099 people from 64,006 families were found in 1,032 local institutions.