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Sharp Decline In India Poverty But Poor Gets Poorer
New Planning Commission facts indicate that poverty has dropped 8% during the last five years.
However, the shocking news is the modified poverty figures of the Tendulkar group have turned down the poverty level itself from Rs 32 a day to Rs 28.
This is bound to renew the bitter argument about who is poor, began first by a SC sworn statement made by the Planning Commission in 2011 when it referred to the 2004-05 poverty level definition of Rs 32 per day.
The novel, modified facts issued by the Planning Commission on March 19, based on the price indices calculated from the 66th Round NSS (2009-10) facts on Household Consumer Expenditure Survey, said anyone who has Rs 28 to use up daily is out of poverty line.
Poverty in India, as per the novel data, dropped 7.4 percentage points during the last five years period to 29.8% as against 37.2%.
Between the periods 2004-05 and 2009-10, poverty dropped by an average of 1.46% per year, much quicker than the 0.74% yearlt drop during the previous 10 years.
Poverty has slumped slightly in the traditionally deprived states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh, mainly in rustic regions.
The declension has been acuter in rustic regions, with poverty descending eight percentage points.
In urban regions, it declined 4.8 percentage points.
Monthly per capita incomes of Rs 859.60 in urban regions and Rs 672.80 in rustic regions, respectively, have been determined as the novel poverty line.
Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia stated, "I firmly believe that when the final numbers of poverty till 2011-2012 come out in 2013-14, the actual decline in poverty would be much larger than 1.46 per cent per annum as 2009 was a drought year."
"Entitlements under social security programmes like the food security Bill and also transfer of resources from the Centre and states won't b
Growth is necessary to remove poverty, and interventions like NREGA help
It sounds ironic as i'm 1000% sure that none of the planning commission affiliate has tried to live with this said amount i.e. Rs. 28.65 per day.
Alone the costs of basic food items have climbed too much that basic requirements like housing, cloths, medical care, and schooling cannot be realized with it.
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