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32 percent Indians suffer acute poverty
Thursday December 13, 2012 07:22:09 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: World Bank
figures show that 32.7 percent of Indian's population survives on
less than one dollar a day, Minister of State for Parliamentary
Affairs Rajeev Shukla said Thursday.
The poor sustenance levels were due to lack of income and adequate
employment opportunities, the minister in a statement in the Rajya
Sabha.
He said the ministries of rural development, housing and urban
poverty, health and family welfare and human resource development
were implementing a number of programmes to battle poverty.
"All policy initiatives of the government which have led to higher
GDP growth have individually and collectively contributed to
raising the living standards of people over time and to the
decline of absolute poverty and destitution," the minister said.
"Over the years, the sharp edges of acute poverty have been
stunted as a result of various programmes and policies of the
government (and) there has been a reduction in the percentage of
people living below poverty," he added.
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