Peg decline at 7.8 percentage points between 2009-10 and 2011-12
The poverty rate has declined by 7.8 percentage points in two years, according to the latest estimates by the Planning Commission. If 29.8 per cent of the population was poor in 2009-10, the figure came down to 22 per cent in 2011-12. The estimates are based on the recently-released report by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) for 2011-12.
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gujarat
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