The Tendulkar Committee’s recommendations on poverty have run out of takers, at least in the political circles. Under pressure from all sides over its estimate of people living below the poverty line, the Planning Commission on Thursday effectively abandoned the Tendulkar panel’s estimation method. A committee would be constituted to revisit the methodology to estimate poverty.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/tendulkar-method-abandoned-new-panel-review-poverty-data
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-standard-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/planning-commission
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/census-2011
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rural-poverty
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/economy
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/poverty
