Friday, September 23, 2011: CPM said the Planning Commission
assessment of pegging poverty line of an individual at Rs 25 per day in
rural areas and Rs 36 per day in urban areas is non-transparent and
fraudulent method “manipulated to suit interests of UPA government’s new
neo-liberal policies.”
“The Planning Commission’s assessment is a non-transparent and
fraudulent method in which poverty lines were manipulated to suit the
interests of new liberal policies of the UPA government,” CPI-M
Politburo member Brinda Karat told reporters here today.
