Plan panel to link social sector benefits to poverty line
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Plan panel to link social sector benefits to poverty line

New Delhi : India | Mar 22, 2012 at 12:07 PM PDT
Source: Indian Express
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Kumar also announced setting up of an expert group to revisit the methodology of the Tendulkar Committee for estimating poverty in the country, after the Commission came under attack on its latest poverty line. As per the Commission's estimates, poverty ratio has been pegged at 29.8 per cent in 2009-10,... FULL ARTICLE AT Indian Express
 
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