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July 30, 2013 Utsa Patnaik, The Hindu The Planning Commission’s spurious method shows a decline in poverty because it has continuously lowered the measuring standard The Planning Commission has once again embarrassed us with its claims of decline in… Continue Reading →
Published: Monday, Dec 24, 2012, 7:00 IST By Yogesh Pawar | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA The Maharashtra government continues to use a 2002 list denying over 50 lakh of below poverty line (BPL) people who barely earn enough for one meal… Continue Reading →
ANKITA AGGARWAL, The Hindu People at Gola block office in Ramgarh district listening to the yatris demand for universal old age pension to Food campaign launched a series of yatras in north India last month. Ankita Aggarwal joined the Jharkhand… Continue Reading →
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGvMwgNkueQ&feature=youtu.be&a] At the stroke of midnight when the world sleeps, India awakes, Yes! India has woken up to freedom, but for whom? After 67 years of Independence, The poor have no kapda, roti, makaan so let them have cell phones. The… Continue Reading →
30 JULY 2012 Bihar: It is reported that some of the private hospitals at Bihar is using Government’s insurance scheme provided for the people below the poverty line (BPL) and against the moral principles they… Continue Reading →
by P. SAINATH in Counterpunch One Tendulkar makes the big scores. The other wrecks the averages. The Planning Commission clearly prefers Suresh to Sachin. Using Professor Tendulkar’s methodology, it declares that there’s been another massive fall in poverty. Yes, another… Continue Reading →
The Govt of Mah. has issued a GR on 16th Jan 2012 stating ration cards can no longer be used during this election as identity card nor ration card will be used as resident proof any longer(in ration card this… Continue Reading →