India Poverty Figures

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  PewDiePie Is A Sore Loser After Losing YouTube Crown To T-Series

  PewDiePie said: "India got YouTube figured out... How about next you figure how to fix the caste system"

• Highest Incidence of Poverty Reported in Chhattisgarh

  Chhattisgarh, Manipur, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and Assam figure among the poorest states where over 40 per cent of people are below poverty line, according to the C Rangarajan panel.

• Poverty in India 2.5 times the official figure: study

  Pursuing an "inclusive reforms" agenda that boosts investments and generates more jobs will help to significantly reduce poverty in India, where over half of the population struggle to meet their essential needs, McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) said on Wednesday.

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  Controversy over claim of 22% fall in poverty: your 10-point cheatsheet

  The Planning Commission's declaration that the number of poor in India has fallen to 22% of the population in the last seven years has evoked strong protests from the opposition and from an important ally, Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party or NCP.

• Poverty in India drops to 21.9 per cent in 2011-12: Planning Commission

  Virtually sticking to its earlier controversial way of calculating poverty figures, Planning Commission said on Tuesday the number of people living below the poverty line has shrunk in both urban and rural areas.

• 60% of rural India lives on less than Rs 35 a day, shows survey

  The survey also pointed out that 10 per cent of the population at the lowest rung in rural areas lives on Rs 15 a day, while in urban areas the figure is only a shade better at Rs 20 day.

• Planning Commission's Rs 28/day poverty line figure to be reviewed: Prime Minister

  After the government faced flak over the Planning Commission's latest poverty estimates, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said a government panel would devise new methods to assess poverty in the country as the issue needs a multi-layered approach.

• For once, MPs want to practice what they preach

  Politicians cutting across party lines may have slammed the Planning Commission for its latest figures on the poverty line but many of their ilk think that it is time they looked within.

• Planning Commission faces flak, blames data discrepancy for low poverty line

  Facing flak over latest poverty numbers, the Planning Commission today admitted that there is serious discrepancy in NSSO data and national accounts which led to pegging poverty line at Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities.