Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 150
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 151
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Interviews | C Rangarajan, Former chairman-PM's Economic Advisory Council speaks to Indivjal Dhasmana
C Rangarajan, Former chairman-PM's Economic Advisory Council speaks to Indivjal Dhasmana

C Rangarajan, Former chairman-PM's Economic Advisory Council speaks to Indivjal Dhasmana

Share this article Share this article
published Published on Jul 8, 2014   modified Modified on Jul 8, 2014
-The Business Standard


C Rangarajan, former head of the former Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, answers questions on the latest official poverty estimate by a committee he'd chaired. Edited excerpts of a talk with Indivjal Dhasmana:

* Your panel has suggested these poverty lines be delinked from social welfare schemes. What would be the exercise's relevance? Is it of only academic interest?

Poverty ratios have already been delinked from various social programmes. The two have already been cut off. The poverty ratios will tell us how the economy is changing, from the point of view of its impact on the lives of the people. How the economy is benefiting the poorer strata.

* You said a changing profile and nature of work leads to a change in the calorie intake required for a healthy person. How long should one wait before it changes these parameters again, for estimating poverty lines?

These requirements change over five to 10 years. Maybe, we'll have to take a relook at the age profile, gender profile and work nature of our population after these many years. Ten years would be better.

* According to the Suresh Tendulkar committee method, the poverty line in urban areas was 22 per cent higher than rural areas in 2011-12, while it was 47 per cent according to your panel. Why is it so?

We have separately calculated urban and rural poverty lines. Tendulkar did not do that and measured the rural lines from urban poverty criteria. Earlier, the Lakdawala committee also calculated urban and rural poverty lines separately.

* Why do you insist on poverty lines to be considered on the basis of monthly expenditure by households and not per capita per day expenditure?

I am saying, look at the National Sample Survey Office report. The poverty lines are based on only these. NSSO reports measure it on the basis of household consumer expenditure on a monthly basis.

The Business Standard, 8 July, 2014, http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/we
-have-separately-calculated-urban-and-rural-poverty-lines-
unlike-tendulkar-c-rangarajan-114070800120_1.html
 

Image Courtesy: The Business Standard


The Business Standard, 8 July, 2014, http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/we-have-separately-calculated-urban-and-rural-poverty-lines-unlike-tendulkar-c-rangarajan-114070800120_1.ht


Related Articles

 

Write Comments

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close