Tuesday 5 July 2011

POVERTY: Count of India's poor begins from Tripura


Jun 28, 2011,
AGARTALA/NEW DELHI: A nationwide census begins with Tripura Wednesday to identify Indians living below the poverty line (BPL) and help determine those eligible for social welfare schemes meant for the poor.
However, the state's Left Front government Tuesday announced that it would not accept any pre-determined figures of poor and all states should be consulted on the methodology of the survey.
"Our government would not accept the preset figures of poor people. Central government should take the opinion of all the state governments across the country about the methodology of the BPL survey," Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said after inaugurating a day-long workshop here on the survey.
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-06-28/news/29712667_1_survey-subsidised-grain-poverty

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