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49% of M'laya below poverty line [1]

As high as 49 per cent of Meghalaya's population lives in the Below Poverty Line (BPL) margin while the East Garo Hills district has topped the BPL list in the state with 55.94 per cent families living in abject poverty. Official sources said here today that in the Jaintia Hills district, the number of such families registered was the least with only 33.51 per cent living below the poverty line. Similarly, the Ri-Bhoi district recorded 49.94 per cent of such families with altogether 32,590 households in the BPL list.

Publication Date: 
03/06/2008
Sentinel (Guwahati) [2]
Tags:
Jaintia Hills [3], Poverty [4], Meghalaya [5], East Garo Hills [6], Ri-Bhoi [7], West Garo Hills [8]
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[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/east-garo-hills
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ri-bhoi
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/west-garo-hills