New Delhi: Even as a controversy rages over the Planning Commission’s figures on poverty reduction, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh said yesterday that the panel’s criteria for fixing the poverty line were “abstract”.
“I have always failed to understand the Planning Commission’s criteria for fixing the poverty line. It is too abstract. It can’t be same for all areas,” Singh tweeted.
He said that the first indicator of the poverty was malnourishment and anaemia in the family, which was easily measurable. “Can’t we have that as a criteria?” he asked.
IANS
