Half U.S. dollar per day "adequate" for Indian villager: gov't body
India's main planning panel, the Planning Commission, has said that half-a-dollar a day is " adequate" for a person living in a village to spend on food, education and health, local media reported Wednesday.
According to official figures, 37 percent of the 1.21 billion population live below the poverty line in India which is struggling to contain inflation.
The Planning Commission has told the country's highest judiciary, Supreme Court, that an individual income of 25 rupees ( 0.5 U.S. dollar) per day would help provide for adequate "private expenditure on food, education and health" in villages.
In the cities, it said, individual earnings of 32 rupees a day (0.66 U.S. dollar) were adequate, the reports said.
The Planning Commission was responding to a direction from the court to update its poverty line figures to reflect rising prices.
The inflation rate in India now stands at an average of 10 percent per month.
Editor: Wang Guanqun
English.news.cn 2011-09-21 19:04:31 FeedbackPrintRSS
NEW DELHI, Sept. 21 (Xinhua)
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