FILE PHOTO: India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley speaks on his mobile phone as he leaves after attending the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meeting at the prime minister's residence in New Delhi, India, February 26, 2019. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's finance minister said on Monday fast economic growth and rapid urbanisation would slash the number of people in extreme poverty by 2021 and end it completely in the decade after that.
More than 21 percent of India's 1.3 billion people lived on less than $1.90 (£1.4) a day in 2011, when the last census was taken, according to the World Bank.
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