Nepal, June 9 -- The Ministry of Land Management and Poverty Alleviation (MoLMPA) has identified around one million poor families across the country through its Poor Household Identification Program, which has been implemented over the past 12 years.

The MoLMPA has classified the identified families into three categories: extremely poor, poor, and marginally poor. Senior ministry officials have prepared preliminary data estimating that the total number of poor families across all three categories stands at around one million nationwide.

Pushpa Joshi, Undersecretary at the Ministry of Land Management and Poverty Alleviation and Senior Statistical Officer at the Poor Identification Standards Division, said the ministry has completed the P...