Planning Commission's new toilets: lessons for us

A plate half full

The National Food Security Bill may not do much but what it does is essential

Government's U turn on poverty line

US, China count their poor afresh. India looks away

Food security bill forgoes nutrition security

The bill will ensure food for millions of hungry Indians. But has the government identified them?

Non-monetary indicator of poverty

Our policy makers should move away from the income criterion for estimating poverty and take cognisance of other indicators

Planning Commission to SC: Rs 26 a person a day the 'adequate' poverty line

This has been arrived at by applying the price level in June 2011

Use technology to make PDS transparent, efficient: Wadhwa committee

Supreme Court-appointed panel recommends phasing out private dealers from supply chain and doing away with above poverty line list

Poverty line delinked from food and other entitlements given to the poor

Government to wait for results of socio-economic caste census to decide parameters on who should be covered under social welfare programmes

Socio Economic and Caste Census could leave rightful claimants out of BPL list

Activists point out several drawbacks in the inclusion and deprivation criteria

Who are the poor?

Identifying the poor and measuring the poverty is a contentious issue. Poverty line is not a sacred line. At best, it indicates how far the …

GDP ignores cost to the environment

Can this flawed measure of growth be reversed?

Poverty level will increase if health expenditure included

Planning Commission factors in less than one rupee a day as health expenditure in its affidavit to the apex court

Who are the poor?

Planning Commission's poverty estimates do not reflect ground reality

New measure for urban poverty

A standard and simple exclusion method has been evolved to determine BPL families

The PDS learning curve

Tike tike in Orissa

Bihar women ‘marry’ minor boys to get houses

Use loopholes in implementation of government housing scheme; police at a loss

Hunger stalks government schools in West Bengal

Pilot survey under Project Dipankar in four prosperous districts shows 87 per cent class I students of government schools are undernourished

New poverty line: Rs 32 for rural India, Rs 47 for urban India

The latest report by Rangarajan committee has added almost 100 million more people to the list of poor

Rs 27 per day: India's new rural poverty line

New poverty estimate claims fastest ever decline in poverty during UPA's regime

No toilet at home? Can’t contest local body polls in Bihar, says Nitish

State government to make amendments to the existing Bihar Panchayati Raj Act

Socio-economic caste census: only 4 states, UTs complete survey

Union rural development minister, Jairam Ramesh, asks all states to sort out inconsistencies in preliminary data

Let solar shine

Census 2011 throws light on the darkness across India. Of the 246 million households, 67 per cent get electricity from the grid, while 31 per …

Inheritance of loss

Whatever the poverty line, 50 per cent people in India will remain poor

Poor countries have remained poor, says World Bank

A new report confirms that Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are home to some of the poorest populations