New Delhi: About 60 per cent of India's rural population lives on less than Rs 35 a day and nearly as many in cities live on Rs 66 a day, reveals a government survey on income and expenditure. "In terms of average per capita daily expenditure, it comes out to be about Rs 35 in rural and Rs 66 in urban India. About 60 per cent of the population live...
04:50 PM, May 03, 2012
Ferozpur Jhirka: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday said eligible families will not be deleted from the lists of those living Below Poverty Line and Old Age Allowance scheme. In compliance of the directions of the court, notices have been issued to ineligible persons, he said, adding some people having vested interests were misleading others by spreading rumors. Hooda said that construction of Nagina-Tijara (Rajasthan) road will soon...
11:47 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Hyderabad: Terming the comments on the below poverty line (BPL) issue as "unprincipled publicity campaign", Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Saturday said the rate of poverty decline doubled during the rule of the UPA Government as compared to the pre-UPA regime. "In the pre-UPA period the decline in poverty was taking place at 0.74 per cent per year. After 2004 it is taking place at 1.5...
03:12 AM, Apr 08, 2012
Hyderabad: Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday took a dig at MPs who criticised the methodology adopted by the Tendulkar Committee for redefining the term poor, saying members raising the issue were probably only aware of Sachin Tendulkar, not Suresh Tendulkar. "Those Members of Parliament may probably have thought it is Sachin Tendulkar. They did not know Suresh Tendulkar," Ramesh told reporters when asked several MPs have criticised...
10:42 PM, Apr 07, 2012
Hyderabad: Terming the comments on the below poverty line (BPL) issue as "unprincipled publicity campaign", Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Saturday said the rate of poverty decline doubled during the rule of the UPA Government as compared to the pre-UPA regime. "In the pre-UPA period the decline in poverty was taking place at 0.74 per cent per year. After 2004 it is taking place at 1.5...
06:58 PM, Apr 07, 2012
The great Mughal emperor Akbar once asked if there was any man in his court unbound by his wife's command. The huge mass of his courtiers and public was stunned and stood huddled together barring one meek-looking man, who stepped away and stood alone. Akbar was curious and asked how such a submissive fellow was the only one brave enough to defy his wife. "I am not defying my wife,...
12:54 PM, Apr 07, 2012
New Delhi: Lauding India for managing to reduce poverty, World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Friday said that controversy over poverty line of Rs 28.65 daily consumption was "overdone". "I have to tell you frankly that I think, it has been overdone," he said when asked about his views on the Planning Commission latest poverty estimates which received widespread criticism within and outside Parliament. The good news, Zoellick said, is...
07:46 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Recently the government announced that poverty had declined in India. This had many people dancing (literally) with joy. To find out more, let Panditji tell ...
02:50 PM, Mar 27, 2012
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05:47 PM, Mar 25, 2012
Bhopal: Rejecting widespread criticism for pegging poverty line at Rs 28.65 daily consumption,Plan panel Deputy Chairman Montek singh Ahluwalia on Saturday asserted that the number of poor in the country has come down irrespective of the method of calculation. "..whatever poverty line you choose. The question is poverty in the country is going down. Some people have said that it is not correct..poverty is not going down..I reject that view...I...
04:21 AM, Mar 25, 2012
The Planning Commission is back in the news. The latest round of poverty levels that have been disclosed have created another debate in the country. ...
02:00 PM, Mar 23, 2012
On a day that the Government decided to announce the formation of an expert group to reassess Tendulkar figures, the man at the centre of the storm, Montek Singh Ahluwalia conceded that the Tendulkar poverty line did not have general acceptability. MOS, Planning Commission Ashwini Kumar said since government has decided to re-visit Tendulkar estimates, it is implicit that it was inadequate. Rupashree Nanda caught up with Deputy Chairman Planning...
11:31 PM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: Amidst strong criticism of the Planning Commission pegging the poverty line at Rs 28.65 daily per capita consumption for cities, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said a fresh group has been set up to devise a new method to assess the number of poor in the country. Singh also favoured a multi-layered apporach to assess poverty estimates and pointed out that the socio-economic and caste-economic census was...
09:44 PM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: A new committee will be set up to reassess poverty estimates, according to sources. The committee is to be set up by the Planning Commission. An announcement is likely to made at 4 pm on Thursday. The government has been facing flak over what exactly constitutes poverty and what are the factors that decide the poverty line. This came after the Planning Commission said that the poverty in...
02:30 PM, Mar 22, 2012
Mumbai: The World Bank will not reduce its financial assistance at the moment to India for poverty alleviation measures because official data has shown the number of poor people has declined. The international funding agency takes a long-term view on its commitments and the poverty data released on Monday will not have any bearing on that commitment, World Bank (WB) Country Head N Roberto Zagha told PTI on the sidelines...
03:02 AM, Mar 22, 2012
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