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TENDULKAR COMMITTEE METHODOLOGY
India has 100 million more poor: C Rangarajan CommitteeAs per the report submitted by Rangarajan persons spending below Rs 47 a day in cities would be considered poor.
Planning Commission to take view on Rangarajan panel report on povertyPlanning Commission is considering report of Rangarajan panel, which reviewed Tendulkar committee methodology for estimating poverty, but h...
Rangarajan panel submits report on poverty to PlanCommThe expert group was to submit its report in 7-9 months of its creation. But it got several extensions with the last one extended to June 3...
Rangarajan panel report on methodology for poverty estimation on July 1"In an affidavit to SC it was stated that households with per capita consumption of more than Rs 32 in urban areas and Rs 26 in rural will ...
Government aware of states giving freebies: Rajeev ShuklaGovt is aware that some states are doling out freebies like laptops, TVs and bicycles, Planning Min Rajeev Shukla informed the Rajya Sabha.
Poverty numbers preliminary, BJP has no right to condemn: Rajeev Shukla"These were just preliminary assessment by an expert group and BJP has no right to condemn as population of poor has dwindled faster during...
Planning Commission sticks to old formula to define poorPeople spending more than Rs 27.2 per day in villages and Rs 33.3 in cities are not poor, according to latest data released by the governme...
Poverty declines to 21.9% in the country in 2011-12Poverty ratio in the country has declined to 21.9% in 2011-12 from 37.2% in 2004-05 on account of increase in per capita consumption, Plann...
Planning panel remained in news for wrong reasons in 2012It all began in March with the Planning Commission coming out with poverty numbers based on the Tendulkar Committee methodology which raise...
New panel to consider poverty lineIn the wake of the Planning Commission's controversial definition of povery last year, a new panel is likely to be formed to consider the c...
C Rangarajan to head panel for reviewing poverty linePlanning Commission constituted an expert group headed by noted economist C Rangarajan to review the Tendulkar Committee methodology for es...
- Jairam Ramesh attacks MPs questioning plan panel's definition of poor
As per the methodology adopted by the Tendulkar Committee for estimation of poverty, the spend on health and education is also factored in.
- Fresh group to devise new method for poverty estimates: PM
Singh also favoured a multi-layered apporach to assess poverty estimates and pointed out that the socio-economic and caste-economic census ...
- BPL row: Rs 32 per capita per day does not represent Planning Commission's views, says Montek Singh
Planning Commission today said a new methodology will be worked out to determine entitlements of beneficiaries under various schemes for po...
- Poverty line at Rs 32: Percentage of poor declining in the country, says Planning Commission
As per Plan panel's estimates, 40.74 crore people were poor as on March 1, 2005. India's population is 121 crore as per the 2011 Census.
- Poverty meter: Government works out new formula to count the poor
The new survey methodology to identify the poor is yet to be finalised, though recommendations made by the NC Saxena committee and eminent ...
- Fresh poverty count survey before food allocation
The poor will have to wait some more before getting their right to food as promised by the UPA government in its election manifesto of 2009.