Tendulkar panel claims every third Indian is poor

New Delhi: The poor in India have increased by 10 per cent, according to a report by the an expert group headed by former chairman of Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council Suresh Tendulkar. Tendulkar Committee report says Bihar and Orissa are the worst affected states in term of poverty. The report says that in 2004 poverty in India was actually 10 per cent more than estimated with poverty in rural India at 42 per cent and not 28 per cent as was estimate earlier. So the overall poverty figure is 37 per cent and not 27 per cent as was estimated in 2004 The only silver lining is that there is no change in urban poverty which is 27 per cent.

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