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<p><b>Calcutta:</b> West Bengal has 57 per cent of its rural population living under the poverty line - higher than any state in the BIMARU region. </p><p>This startling bit of statistics, carried in the chapter on South Asia in the 1997 United Nations Human Development Report, touches scales higher than the findings of D.T. Lakdawallah, whose sample survey on behalf of the Planning Commission was released in 1995, and Abu Saleh Shariff, who conducted a national survey on poverty alleviation programmes. </p><p>While Lakdawallah put the figure at 32.7 per cent, Shariff pegged it at 52 per cent. As always, the Marxist-controlled bureaucracy of West Bengal resorts to babbling about parameters and indicators, turning the debate into an academic exercise. </p><p>For one, it helps evade the crucial question: the importance of the poverty line in the economy, dominated as it is by rhetoric on land reforms, multiple cropping patterns and Panchayati Raj. </p><div class="itemcenter"><amp-iframe height="62" title="" width="320" sandbox="allow-forms allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" allowfullscreen src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Findiatoday%2Fbanner%2Fpreferred-source-new.html%3Fv%3D1.014%5Cu0026native%3D1" class="mrBt15 preferred-source-banner"> </amp-iframe></div></p><p>A senior bureaucrat even ventured to add that the high rate of poverty actually speaks volumes about the popularity of the development programmes - apparently, people don't wish to report progress in lifestyles because they don't want to miss out on the funds. Profound.</p><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">AtMigration </div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Mar 2, 1998</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div>

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<p><b style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Calcutta:</b> West Bengal has 57 per cent of its rural population living under the poverty line - higher than any state in the BIMARU region. </p><p>This startling bit of statistics, carried in the chapter on South Asia in the 1997 United Nations Human Development Report, touches scales higher than the findings of D.T. Lakdawallah, whose sample survey on behalf of the Planning Commission was released in 1995, and Abu Saleh Shariff, who conducted a national survey on poverty alleviation programmes. </p><p>While Lakdawallah put the figure at 32.7 per cent, Shariff pegged it at 52 per cent. As always, the Marxist-controlled bureaucracy of West Bengal resorts to babbling about parameters and indicators, turning the debate into an academic exercise. </p><p>For one, it helps evade the crucial question: the importance of the poverty line in the economy, dominated as it is by rhetoric on land reforms, multiple cropping patterns and Panchayati Raj. </p><div class="itemcenter"><iframe scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="62" awidth="320" aheight="62" amplayout="fixed" src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Findiatoday%2Fbanner%2Fpreferred-source-new.html%3Fv%3D1.014" class="preferred-source-banner" loading="lazy"></iframe></div><style>.preferred-source-banner{  margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom:10px;}</style></p><p>A senior bureaucrat even ventured to add that the high rate of poverty actually speaks volumes about the popularity of the development programmes - apparently, people don't wish to report progress in lifestyles because they don't want to miss out on the funds. Profound.</p><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">AtMigration </div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Mar 2, 1998</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div>

West Bengal has 57 per cent of its rural population living under the poverty line - higher than any state in the BIMARU region.

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West Bengal has 57 per cent of its rural population living under the poverty line - higher than any state in the BIMARU region. 

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West Bengal has 57 per cent of its rural population living under poverty line

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West Bengal has 57 per cent of its rural population living under poverty line

West Bengal has 57 per cent of its rural population living under the poverty line - higher than any state in the BIMARU region.

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