SPENDING Rs 20/DAY? YOU ARE NOT POOR

Prof.John Kurakar & Dr Biju B.L

SPENDING RS20/DAY?

YOU ARE NOT POOR

If you live in a city and spend more than Rs31 a month on rent and conveyance, if you spend more than Rs 18 a month on education and Rs 25 a month on medicines or eat vegetables worth more than Rs36.50 a month, you are officially poor. In a month if you spend a rupee more than Rs 578 that converts to roughly Rs 20 a day- on all your needs you will be designated as not poor”. You shall be denied all social benefits and subsidies that the union government provides to what it defines as poor.

The planning Commission has informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday 10th May,2011 that these are the monthly expenditure levels per capita on average across the country that it is using to decide the official ‘poverty line’ Its criticize like to call it the starvation line-a spending level below which people would be rendered destitute

It’s yet more difficult for someone in the village to make it to the Union government’s poor list. If a person living in the village spends more than Rs 15 a day he is not poor and should be denied central governments subsidies, according to the statisticians at planning Commission.

Based on these consumption level, the Planning Commission and its experts have devised a’ poverty line’ and declared that only 41.8 % of the rural population is poor and a mere 25.7 % of the urban population rally needs food shelter and social benefits from the government

Prof. John Kurakar