-Down to Earth
The findings of the new census report will place pressure on the government to redefine BPL households and the poverty line
Almost four years after the UPA government found itself entangled in a controversy over using the poverty line for development programmes, the present National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is likely to face the next round of consequences.
The government, on Friday, released the Socio-Economic and Caste Census. The census was initiated in 2011 when a debate erupted over the unavailability of proper data on India’s poor households and their caste composition.
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