Thanks. You summed it up with excellent words. If we are to go by $2.15 as the extreme poverty line, TBH noone is extremely poor here. The lowest of the workforce earn around $5 a day. 

Yes, there's a lot of disparity in wages, some sectors still exploit the oversupply of workforce - that in private education - most of the people now enjoying pretty much more than they were before 2014. I hate politics but I've to give a lot of credit to Mofi government for simplifying a lot of issues. 

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Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible (about 1%) levels

India's poverty reduction is so underrated. People are constantly focused on negativity, but literally a billion people have lifted themselves out of poverty. Note that I don't use the terrible common "been lifted out of poverty" language that denies any agency to the Indian people themselves.

Thinking that industrialization is a necessary step is the *post hoc ergo proctor hoc* fallacy. Just because that was the path the West generally took does not mean it's the only path. India is developing in a different global economy than the West did and it makes sense the growth path would be different.