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'No basis in the claim that poverty is down to 5%'

'Without a poverty line, how are we to know whether poverty is the same, or it has come down or it has gone up?' IMAGE: A homeless girl asks for alms outside a coffee shop in Mumbai. Photograph:......

Why we must support the Food Security Bill

Only three percent of Indians pay income tax; our tax-GDP ratio is among the lowest in the world. This must change. Our elites must realise that India’s poverty has damaging consequences for......

Rural households spend half of urban counterparts

The National Sample Survey Organisation has found wide disparities in the monthly consumption pattern of rural and urban households during 2007-08, with the former spending just half of what their......

Govt releases 5 survey reports but holds back study it junked

The government’s decision to release the reports comes two days after over 200 scholars from across the globe issued a statement demanding release of all withheld reports produced by the NSO,......

Rural Indian spends less than Rs 21 a day

An individual in rural India on an average spends less than Rs 21 a day for survival, of which more than half is consumed for food requirements. While an average urban citizen spends just about Rs......

Jobless rate up in cities

Urban areas reported a higher unemployment rate, four per cent for men and women in 2003 against a two per cent unemployment rate for rural men and 1 per cent for rural women in 2003, according to......

Among durables, households spend highest on vehicles

The survey covered 47,535 households in rural areas and 36,065 households in urban areas. Image: Households allocated the most to expenditure on vehicles. Photograph: Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com......

National Sample Survey On Household Consumer Expenditure

News for National Sample Survey On Household Consumer Expenditure

'No basis in the claim that poverty is down to 5%'

Why we must support the Food Security Bill

Rural households spend half of urban counterparts

Govt releases 5 survey reports but holds back study it junked

Rural Indian spends less than Rs 21 a day

Jobless rate up in cities

Among durables, households spend highest on vehicles

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