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Call to adopt uniform index for poverty level in State [1]

Government departments now use different standards to measure poverty

Government departments differ with regard to standards for determining poverty-level, Mythili K. Rajendran, Managing Director and Principal Secretary, Tamil Nadu Rural Livelihood Mission, said here on Tuesday.

Publication Date: 
07/08/2013
Hindu (Chennai) [2]
Tags:
Tamil Nadu [3], Poverty [4], Population [5], Rural Poverty [6], Anti-Poverty Programmes [7]

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