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Poverty figures: Opposition brings Lok Sabha to a standstill

The Lok Sabha was adjourned on Wednesday following uproar over fresh poverty estimates released by the Planning Commission, which pegged the poverty line at Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in......

'No basis in the claim that poverty is down to 5%'

'Without a poverty line, how are we to know whether poverty is the same, or it has come down or it has gone up?' IMAGE: A homeless girl asks for alms outside a coffee shop in Mumbai. Photograph:......

Quotas for Muslims: Cong's next self-goal?

After badly goofing up on the Telangana issue, it remains to be seen if the government will do the same with the Justice Ranganath Misra Report on linguistic and religious minorities -- Prime......

Why we must support the Food Security Bill

Only three percent of Indians pay income tax; our tax-GDP ratio is among the lowest in the world. This must change. Our elites must realise that India’s poverty has damaging consequences for......

Govt reviewing methodology for estimating poverty

The government on Wednesday said it will review the methodology for measuring poverty based on the findings of the NSSO Survey 2009-10."The methodology for measuring poverty in future will be......

Rural Indian spends less than Rs 21 a day

An individual in rural India on an average spends less than Rs 21 a day for survival, of which more than half is consumed for food requirements. While an average urban citizen spends just about Rs......

India's annual per capita income: Rs 23,222

India's per capita income, as per the revised estimates released by the Central Statistical Organisation on May 31, 2006, has been estimated at Rs 23,222 annually at current prices during the year......

Jobless rate up in cities

Urban areas reported a higher unemployment rate, four per cent for men and women in 2003 against a two per cent unemployment rate for rural men and 1 per cent for rural women in 2003, according to......

Only 2% Indians unemployed, says survey

Incredible though it may sound, only 2 out of every 100 person in the country is unemployed as against 10 out of 100 in the United States, according to a recent survey by a central government......

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National Sample Survey On Household Consumer Expenditure

News for National Sample Survey On Household Consumer Expenditure

Poverty figures: Opposition brings Lok Sabha to a standstill

'No basis in the claim that poverty is down to 5%'

Quotas for Muslims: Cong's next self-goal?

Why we must support the Food Security Bill

Govt reviewing methodology for estimating poverty

Rural Indian spends less than Rs 21 a day

India's annual per capita income: Rs 23,222

Jobless rate up in cities

Only 2% Indians unemployed, says survey

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