The times news network reported on March 20, 2012 that as per the data released by Planning Commission the poverty level had significantly declined between 2004 – 2005 and 2009- 10. The new estimates are based on the poverty line that averages Rs. 672.8 per month (Rs. 22.43 per day) in rural areas and Rs. 859.6 per month (Rs. 28.65 per day) in urban areas for 2009-10. In a state like Delhi, the urban poverty line translated to Rs. 34.67 per person per day. In the Supreme Court, the government had earlier submitted that the updated poverty line was likely to be Rs. 26 per day in rural areas & Rs. 32 per day in the towns in June 2011. As things stand, a host of centrally sponsored social security schemes for the poor exclude those above these poverty lines from availing of the benefits under the scheme. By the lowered bench marks, poverty across the country declined by 7.3%.
That Bihar under Nitish Kumar grew at over 10% between2004-05 & 2009-10 is now well known. There is no doubt that poverty level is coming down percentage-wise but in absolute numbers it is still huge defying solution and worrying the well-wishers in the country.
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