Imagine a poverty line

Some plain facts and some ugly truths. The plain fact is that poverty in India has declined at a rapid pace during the UPA years post 2004. An ugly truth. When the Planning Commission released the estimates of poverty in India, on the basis of the household survey conducted by the NSS in 2009-10, the findings were met by the most illiterate response on the part of the politicians, media, and glitterati. Poverty figures have been published by all governments — Congress, Third Front, NDA and UPA — on a regular basis for the last 20 odd years. The poverty line has increased in real terms over this period. So why the incredibly outrageous reaction?

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