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- India’s poverty rate declined to 4.5-5% in 2022-23: SBI ResearchIndia's poverty rate declined to 4.5-5% in 2022-23, with rural poverty declining to 7.2% and urban poverty down to 4.6%. This decline is at...
- NITI Aayog task force bats for Tendulkar committee's Low Poverty LineNITI Aayog, the government's premier think tank, has suggested a two-pronged strategy to eliminate extreme poverty in the country.
- 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.
- New poverty line: Rs 32 in villages, Rs 47 in citiesThe poverty line had been fixed at Rs 27 in rural areas and Rs 33 in urban areas, levels at which getting two meals may be difficult.
- A grain of truth in what Gujarat says? Or a poverty of facts?The Planning Commission periodically revises the poverty line at the all-India and state levels based on large household expenditure survey...
- Sikkim records steepest fall in poverty levelSikkim has recorded steepest fall in poverty level in the country on account of increase in per capita consumption.
- Experts suggest 3-pronged strategy to identify urban poorThe Expert Group has recommended three-pronged strategy to identify families living below the poverty line in urban areas.
- 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...
- Myths about poverty lines: Critics of the Planning Commission are in denial about India’s efforts to combat destitutionBy the sheer loudness of their protests, NGOs, journalists and intellectuals have bamboozled the prime minister into withdrawing the latest...
- 5 crore people moved out of poverty: GovernmentThe new estimates are based on a poverty line that averages Rs 672.8 per month (Rs 22.43 per day) in rural areas and Rs 859.6 per month (Rs...
- Rs 32-a-day poverty line had Plan panel in controversy in 2011The Planning Commission was at the centre of a big controversy after it adopted Rs 32-a-day poverty line, inviting sharp criticism from man...
- Poverty line at Rs 32: Percentage of poor declining in the country, says Planning CommissionAs 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.
- ET in a classroom: How are poverty numbers calculatedSome estimates place the number of poor at 40% of the population. ET looks at how poverty numbers are generated:
- Unrealistic poverty estimates prompted govt to set up expert panel: TendulkarThe former chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council explained why his numbers are more credible in an interview with ET.
- Rural poor estimated at 42%Conventional wisdom holds that poverty is more widespread in India than the government cares to admit. After all, economy's growth in the d...
- Reforms trickling, poverty dipsPoverty has come down over the decade of reforms, but a fifth to a quarter of the population still remains poor, according to the latest es...
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