Tendulkar Committee

How many are poor? Take your pick from 27.5 pct to 80 pct

There was a huge brouhaha over whether the poverty line should be drawn at Rs 26-32 a day or somewhere higher. India has a wealth of poverty estimates that only serve to confuse.

Planning Commission's role needs to be streamlined: Govt

Planning Minister Rao Inderjit Singh today underlined the need for streamlining the role of the Planning Commission.

30% of India is poor, says Rangarajan panel's new poverty line formula

A panel headed by former PMEAC Chairman C Rangarajan has dismissed the Tendulkar Committee report on estimating poverty and said that the number of poor in India was much higher in 2011-12 at 29.5 per cent of the population, which means that three out of 10 persons are poor.

You must link poverty line to nutrition, says Tendulkar committee dissenter

In what has been a week of debate, set off by the ruling UPA's release of poverty reduction numbers, Raghav Gaiha writes in Outlook magazine that the Tendulkar Committee glossed over the the linkage between poverty and nutrition.

Percentage of poor declining; says Planning Commission

Amid public outcry over pegging urban poverty line at per capita consumption of Rs 32 a day, Planning Commission today said the percentage of poor is declining in the country.