-The Telegraph The controversial poverty data from the Planning Commission has a message for Mamata Banerjee: the Marxists have brought down the number of destitute in Bengal but much more needs to be done. Latest data suggest that the number of poor has dipped by 7.5 percentage points in Bengal between 2004-05 and 2009-10, which covers the last five years of Left rule in the state. Poverty in urban areas in Bengal came...
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Growth is necessary to remove poverty, and interventions like NREGA help
-The Economic Times Over the first five years of the UPA government, the number of India's poor fell from 37% of the population to a little less than 30% of the population and rural poverty fell faster than urban poverty did. A closer look at the numbers shows that states performed very differently when it came to poverty reduction through the years 2004-05 to 2009-10. States like Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Orissa...
More »‘Inequality has gone up, notwithstanding dip in poverty'-K Balchand
Montek Singh says he is willing to revise poverty estimates on the basis of expert opinion Though the incidence of poverty has come down over five years from 2004-05 to 2009-10, it is a startling fact that inequality has increased, with fewer people controlling income. Union Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia admitted on Tuesday that income distribution was not at the desired level and inequality increased in both rural and...
More »Poverty Estimate Figures Attempt to Hide Reality: CPI-M
-PTI Describing the fresh poverty estimates of the Planning Commission as a "dishonest" attempt to conceal reality, CPI(M) today asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to shun these figures and urged him not to use these "fraudulent" estimates to deny poor people of their right to BPL cards. In a statement, the party said even the recently released Household Amenities and Assets Census of 2011 shows the extent of poverty in different spheres...
More »Bihar's growth story has a poor side-Rukmini Shrinivasan
That Bihar under Nitish Kumar grew at over 10% between 2004-05 and 2009-10 is now well-known. But data released on Monday shows that in the same period, the number of poor in the state actually grew. During this five-year period, Bihar added 50 lakh people to the number of its poor, by far the largest number of any Indian state in this period. A look at Planning Commission numbers for 2009-10...
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