The Planning Commission has told the Supreme Court that anyone spending more than
Rs.965 per month in urban India and Rs.781 in rural India will be deemed to be not poor. Updating the poverty line cutoff figures, the Commission says those spending in excess of Rs.32 a day in urban areas or Rs.26 a day in villages would no longer be eligible to draw benefits of government welfare schemes for those living below the poverty line.
According to the suggested new criterion, if a family of four in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore or Chennai is spending more than Rs.3860 per month on themselves, it would not be considered poor.
Is it not just a ploy to artificially depress the number of poor in India?
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