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Gujarat's BPL cut-off a 'mockery' of poverty: Cong [1]

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”.

Publication Date: 
04/02/2014
Business Standard (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Gujarat [3], Poverty [4], Planning Commission [5], Rural Poverty [6], Food Prices [7], Economy [8]
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