Government Vision on Poverty

     Although Indians are churning in the grind of inflation from more then two years now, and often government officials (Ministers & Bureaucrats) keep on giving dose of false hope after the gap of few months by giving new deadline to get control on inflation, but at the same time does not forget to take care of Indians who are working with them or employees of central government by revising the DA which stand right now at 58 percent amended recently, and even politicians does not ignore themselves by revising their salaries and perks but left rest of Indians in the hands of their lucks and God to look for sources to increase the strength of their pockets to meet the inflation. Planning Commission has submit affidavit in the Supreme Court in which it has given new definition of poverty line, which infect is far far from the reality to accept in spite of the fact it has signature of Prime Minister of India.

    Submitted affidavit in the Supreme Court by Planning Commission of India that if a person reside in the urban parts of the country and spending rupees 965 per month on to his/her livelihood and other person who is spending 781 rupees monthly on to his livelihood and residing in the rural parts of the country then both set of persons will not comes in the category of poor, so it mean 32 rupees is bar set by planning commission for urban and 26 rupees for rural area if he/she spends in a day then both are not eligible for the benefits received under the Below Poverty Line(BPL) disburse by government. Setting new criteria for poverty line for four metros of country by name Dehli, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai for the set of four family members poverty line is rupees 3800 then as per planning commission report they wont be clubbed in the poor category list, but if we go through price of essential commodities of Indian kitchen then its not easy to count any item from score of items below thirty five rupees, as per report of planning commission money spent in a day by Indians on to below coded items, then he/she is above poverty line –

·        Pulse –  Rs. 5.50 paisa

·        Rice/Grain – Rs 1.02 paisa

·        Milk – Rs 2.33 paisa

·        Oil –  Rs 1.55 paisa

·        Vegetables – Rs 0.44 paisa

·        Sugar – Rs 0.70 paisa

·        Salt/Spices – Rs 0.78 paisa

·        Other Stuff – Rs. 3.75 paisa

·        Fuel –  Rs 3.75 paisa

·        Rent - Rs 49.10 paisa 

its enough to live healthy life in India and wont treated as poor. Planning Commission also describe spending capacity of Above Poverty Line (APL) of Indians on to other items like –

·        Health services’ -  Rs 39.70 paisa monthly

·        Education – Rs 0.99 paisa daily

·        Shoes –  Rs 9.60 paisa per month

·        Personal goods – Rs 28.80 paisa

Question rises here how planning commission prepare the data, what was it’s source? Well it is based Tendulkar Commission 2004-05 price index and Industrial Workers Consumer price index. Certainly coming days will give wind to the debate on different platforms in the country on to planning commission Affidavit.