The fact that the Gujarat government has determined Rs 10.8 a day for rural areas as the cut-off for the poverty line in the state has raked up a controversy.
Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government for its “mockery” of poverty, the Congress reminded the Opposition party of how it had trashed the Planning Commission's poverty line cut-offs of Rs 32 and Rs 28 a day in urban and rural areas, respectively, as a “joke”.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/gujarats-bpl-cut-mockery-poverty-cong
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-standard-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gujarat
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/poverty
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/planning-commission
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rural-poverty
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-prices
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/economy