PUNE MIRROR (pg15, 25SEP2011).
The planning commission’s beyond
the pale concept of poor and poverty has only made us rue that how unfortunate
we are that we’ve a plurality of highly qualified economists in the cabinet.
The report which factually flies in the face of common sense is certain to
revolutionize the world as it gives a shorter route to curb poverty, just
change the definition and you’ll no longer be deemed poor. Do these high
profile millionaire members of planning commission have the courage to tell a
labourer or a coolie or a rickshaw puller on his face that he is not poor but
rich because he makes almost Rs 100 a day much more than the paltry sum of Rs
32 and that’s why he is not entitled to any subsidy? Even beggars make more
than Rs 32 a day, so in that case the poor are extinct in our country, right?
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