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Opposition objects to government's new poverty
line norm
Tuesday March 20, 2012 06:23:56 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday strongly objected to and
termed as "unfortunate" the government's new concept of people
living on less than Rs.28 per day in urban areas and Rs.22.50 in
rural areas being below the poverty line.
The opposition vociferously raised the issue in the Rajya Sabha
and asked the government come up with an an appropriate method to
calculate the poverty line in India.
"If you don't have a formula, come out with a formula to calculate
poverty line," BJP leader S.S. Ahluwalia asked the government.
"The world hunger report says 89 percent of Indians live under
poverty line, calculated according to international standards," he
said, adding the government concept was flawed.
Raising the issue in Rajya Sabha, Ahluwalia said: "This is the end
of poverty line and beginning of starvation line... Can the prime
minister and finance minister manage in Rs.32 per day."
The Planning Commission Monday released data showing that poverty
had significantly declined between 2004-05 and 2009-10.
It said poor were the ones who spend less than Rs.28 per day in
urban areas and Rs.22.50 in rural areas. The new poverty line is
lower than the earlier Rs 32-per-day mark that had triggered an
outrage when the government submitted it to the Supreme Court last
year.
Members of the Bahujan Samaj Party, AIADMK and the Left also
joined the BJP in protesting against the new defined poverty line.
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