Delhi says poverty begins below 50 cents a day

[Emmie]

A boo-boo is a boo-boo, whether new or old.

Good if has been set for revision.

 

[Roybot]

Why is the old news which has been debated at length posted again and again????

Cause Sami6108 was banned when this news was published. He is so obsessed with India that he decided to post it anyways once he came back from exile

 

[53fd]

Only 3 week old... anyway... does not your government, planning commission and supreme court judges has any idea with 750 or 900 rupee a month what people can do and whether it is enough for people to cover the health, food and education cost???

More like 2 weeks old. 16 days.

 

[IndoCarib]

Only 3 week old... anyway... does not your government, planning commission and supreme court judges has any idea with 750 or 900 rupee a month what people can do and whether it is enough for people to cover the health, food and education cost???

Your are a retard by only 3 weeks

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

Why is the old news which has been debated at length posted again and again????

If this sort of thing happens with news on Pakistan and China..it is promptly closed and the OP will be banned..

But i think this sort of behavior is accepted if it is a India bashing news...

Why you Indian get angry when the real face of india get revealed??? When I posted the news no such similar news appeared on the related news... Now chill and show me where you have seen the same news in this forum.

 

[jdme]

Listen, I concur with non-Indian posters here. This is shocking. Indian neighbors are so prosperous, it is jarring to see such a poor India. Why cannot India learn from its immediate neighbor instead of fixing these stats?

 

[SpArK]

Controversial rate of 32 rupees ($0.65) a day was used as a benchmark for access to anti-poverty programs.

Its been used to help calculate who gets subsidizes in the country.

The bill -- which has yet to be passed by a parliament already facing a long backlog of proposed laws after a year of disruption by the opposition -- could double the nearly $12 billion in the year that India spends to provide cheap grains and lentils through a public distribution system. ..


That represents about 1 percent of gross domestic product and 5 percent of government spending.

Some finance ministry officials have said the bill is too ambitious, mindful of its impact on the country's plans to cut the fiscal deficit to a targeted 4.6 percent in 2011/12.

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

More like 2 weeks old. 16 days.

Thanks bro....

 

[jdme]

Why you Indian get angry when the real face of india get revealed??? When I posted the news no such similar news appeared on the related news... Now chill and show me where you have seen the same news in this forum.

I agree again!! You just exposed India! The real face. I mean who could even had imagined this news could come out even 10 mins ago! Real breakthrough..except India has been considered poor, dirty ..in every post of PDF for years and years..but you are right, the real face is exposed. Classy journalism, bro!!!

 

[IndoCarib]

Why you Indian get angry when the real face of india get revealed??? When I posted the news no such similar news appeared on the related news... Now chill and show me where you have seen the same news in this forum.

We have discussed in detail. Most of dont agree with planning comission.

 

[jdme]

Controversial rate of 32 rupees ($0.65) a day was used as a benchmark for access to anti-poverty programs.

Its been used to help calculate who gets subsidizes in the country.

The bill -- which has yet to be passed by a parliament already facing a long backlog of proposed laws after a year of disruption by the opposition -- could double the nearly $12 billion in the year that India spends to provide cheap grains and lentils through a public distribution system. ..


That represents about 1 percent of gross domestic product and 5 percent of government spending.

Some finance ministry officials have said the bill is too ambitious, mindful of its impact on the country's plans to cut the fiscal deficit to a targeted 4.6 percent in 2011/12.

Indian poverty levels were like 23% in 2005 before government changed the definition and increased the net. It could adopt the UN definition but I think it wants to tackle the problem incrementally. Every time they widen the net, poverty goes down in few years and they again change the definition. Eventually they will arrive at UN definition. Or India could just follow "others" and increase poverty.

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

I agree again!! You just exposed India! The real face. I mean who could even had imagined this news could come out of even 10 mins ago! Real breakthrough..except India has been considered poor, dirty ..in every post of PDF..but you are right, the real face is exposed. Classy journalism, bro!!!

If trolling would be my intention I would post the news from the following site...

That's rich: Indian bureaucrats say 50 cents a day is all it takes to beat poverty
India's Planning Commission sets poverty line at 50 cents a day, allowing just 2 cents for health care -- in other words, not enough for an aspirin

India | Poverty | Planning Commission farce

Jason OverdorfSeptember 21, 2011 08:37

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****** rich? Indian ragpickers search for re-cyclable materials among rubbish at a dumping ground of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation near Ahmedabad on September 13, 2011. (SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images)

What is it they say? There are lies, damn lies, and statistics? Well this is taking it to the proverbial next level.

India's Planning Commission, the powerful cabal of wonks responsible for shaping the government's five year expenditure plans, has took it on their wise heads to define what it means to be poor in this destitute country. And from their veritable mansions in central Delhi, they've come up with some stupendous figures.

In its affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, the panel quoting the Tendulkar Committee's recommendations said the urban poverty line is fixed at an expenditure of Rs 4,284 per month while it is Rs 3,905 a month in rural areas, according to the Hindustan Times. That means a family of five has to pay less than $100 a month for health care, food and education to be considered poor. Those spending more would be classified as "above the poverty line" (APL).

So what does that mean? A tank of gas costs about half of that princely sum, to give you a rough idea. A Big Mac would knock out a whole day's allotted spending. But to put it in terms less relevant to those of us in the TFPLTU category (too far above the poverty line to understand) and more relevant to those in the ICFBPL category (I can't flipping believe the poverty line), here's a bit more from the HT.

Jean Dreze, a member of the National Advisory Council, said the Planning Commission's allowance for health expenditure is less than one rupee a day — barely enough to buy an aspirin.

Another NAC member, Aruna Roy, said the ridiculous limit for the poverty level demonstrated the government's lack of empathy for the poor.

“It is obvious that this extremely low estimated expenditure is a threshold aimed only at artificially reducing the number of persons “below poverty line” so as to reduce government expenditure on the poor,” she said in a signed statement.

 

[Imran Khan]

Delhi says poverty begins below 50 cents a day ??

ok then what is the problem i don't get whats issue here? they are free to say even 10cents its their country their economy and their public we have nothing to do with it .

 

[IndoCarib]

@ sami6108

Here is the real face of India ! LOL !

India abandons poverty rate benchmark for social programs | Top News | Reuters

 

[jdme]

Delhi says poverty begins below 50 cents a day ??

ok then what is the problem i don't get whats issue here? they are free to say even 10cents its their country their economy and their public we have nothing to do with it .

Real issue here is that real face of India has not been exposed yet, or atleast not today as the daily ritual demands