The Planning Commission had released a report, yesterday indicating 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 from 37.2 percent to 29.8 percent in 2009-10. Firstpost did an interview with Abhijit Sen, Member, Planning Commission. Here are excerpts from the interview: When we say there is a 7.3 percentage points (from 37.2 percent in 2004-05 to 29.8...
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In Delhi's nursery classes, Muslim children are a rarity-Bindu Shajan Perappadan Rana Siddiqui Zaman
-The Hindu Low Muslim representation appears to be a striking feature of this year's admissions to nursery classes in Delhi's private schools. Of 92 schools which provided some sort of information on their websites, as many as 20 (or their branches) admitted no Muslim child while 17 admitted only one Muslim child each. While the sketchy nature of available data &NDAsh; with only a few schools willing to reveal the numbers of...
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Kudankulam plant comes under 3-tier security cover; activists call for indefinite fast Police moved against those protesting the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) on MoNDAy, arresting 11 activists, including two members of the anti-KKNPP struggle committee. This is the first time the police cracked the whip on protesters in the last seven and half months. The nuclear power plant came under a three-tier security cover soon after the Cabinet cleared the decks...
More »The Budget’s Big Focus on Malnutrition-Geeta Anand
The finance minister’s budget includes a big boost in spending on reducing malnutrition, clearly the priority among the social services programs of the Congress party-led government. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said India will increase spending on malnutrition programs by 58% in fiscal 2012-13 to 158 billion rupees, or about $3 billion. Included in this new spending is a plan to reorganize the Integrated Child Development Services, the central government-led initiative that has...
More »Is India Fudging Its Poverty Numbers?-Tripti Lahiri
According to data released MoNDAy by India’s Planning Commission, the number of people living in absolute poverty in India decreased by 12.5% between 2004-2005 and 2009-2010. India’s official poverty rate stands at 29.8%, or close to 350 million people using 2010 population figures, down from around 37.2% or 400 million previously. The announcement was based on an analysis of data gathered from roughly 100,000 households between July 2009 and June 2010,...
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