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
Patna: Flaying the Planning Commission's assessment that a person earning Rs 29 daily should not be deemed as poor, the CPI on Wednesday described the panel as a club of "anti-poor" people. CPI national secretary Atul Kumar Anjaan said it was "ridiculous" that the Planning Commission has described a person earning Rs 29 a day as not poor. "It will be appropriate to describe the commission as a club of...
01:42 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Planning Commission on Monday further reduced poverty line to Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities and Rs 22.42 in rural areas, scaling down India's poverty ratio to 29.8 per cent in 2009-10. ...
11:55 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: If you could spend more than Rs 28 per day and lived in a town, or Rs 22 per day and lived in a village, you were above the poverty line. This is Planning Commission's new poverty line for the year 2009-2010. According to its most recent estimates, 52 million people moved out of poverty between 2005 and 2010. For rural areas, poverty is down from 42% to...
11:23 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: Agitated over fresh poverty line figures, members of Parliament on Wednesday directed their ire against Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia with demands that he be removed. The Plan panel estimates pegging poverty line at Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities led to uproar in the Lok Sabha and Question Hour was scuttled as the House was adjourned. As soon as the House assembled for...
08:00 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia said he is open to revising the Rs 29 per day cut off for the poverty line. ...
07:13 PM, Mar 21, 2012
The Planning Commission has said that the poverty in India has come down in the country during the 2009-2010 period. According to its latest report, the Commission said more than 8 per cent of India has come above the poverty line in five years. Tonight at 10 pm CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, has poverty declined in India?
12:57 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was adjourned on Wednesday following uproar over the fresh poverty estimates released by the Planning Commission which pegged the poverty line at Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities. As soon as the House met, NDA Convenor Sharad Yadav and Prabodh Panda (CPI) were on their feet demanding suspension of the Question Hour for a discussion on latest poverty estimates of the Planning Commission....
12:46 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Planning Commission Deputy Chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Tuesday defended the government's new reduced poverty line, drawn at Rs 28 a day. ...
06:46 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Planning Commission's latest report on poverty rates declining has raised a storm in Parliament. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded a reply from the government in the Rajya Sabha on the latest numbers. The Planning Commission on Monday said that the poverty in India has come down in the country during the 2009-2010 period. According to its latest report, the Commission said more than 8 per...
11:28 AM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen that there was no downgrading of poverty benchmark during the period of 2009-2010 and it was the inflation that had brought about the change. He was responding to latest report by the Planning Commission, which said that the poverty in India has come down during the 2009-2010 period. The Commission said that more than 8 per cent of India has come above the...
10:35 AM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Planning Commission on Monday said that the poverty in India has come down in the country during the 2009-2010 period. According to its latest report, the Commission said more than 8 per cent of India has come above the poverty line in five years. Going by the controversial daily consumption number of Rs 28.65 per day, one out of every three Indian is poor as per the...
08:59 AM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: Planning Commission on Monday further reduced poverty line to Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities and Rs 22.42 in rural areas, scaling down India's poverty ratio to 29.8 per cent in 2009-10, the estimates which are likely to raise the hackles of civil society. An individual above a monthly consumption of Rs 859.6 in urban and Rs 672.8 in rural areas is not considered poor, as...
11:29 PM, Mar 19, 2012
