IN OTHER words you are not poor if you earn Rs. 32 a day in an urban area such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, etc. This is the view of the Planning Commission, who stated it in its affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday when saying that anyone spending more than Rs 965 per month in urban India and Rs 781 in rural India, is not poor.
The Planning Commission, in its affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, also said that those people who are below the poverty line and those who spend in excess of Rs 32 da day in urban areas and Rs 26 a day in villages, will no longer be eligible to draw benefits of government welfare schemes.
If the Planning Commission goes according to facts on ground, then, in the family of four people, basic expenses on monthly grocery will be an average of Rs. 2000/month. If the other basic amenities such as vegetables, cereals, milk, fruit, rent, conveyance, health, education are included in the monthly budget, it will cross an average of Rs. 7000/month in a family of four people, who are living in Delhi, Mumbai or others cities.
On speaking with a daily labourer about these fiures, he said it's a joke to say that Rs. 32 is enough for a day in a city like Delhi. All basic products are very expensive. A vendor said it is difficult to survive in Delhi. A rickshaw puller said he came from Bengal, and has only choice to go back to his village to survive - as it's difficult to for a family to have two square meals a day.
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