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When data is used as a weapon against reality: Deviations in the HCES & CES, claims of poverty line
This Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) is qualitatively different in methodology (including sampling) from the earlier Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) last conducted in 2011-12, and therefore the two are not comparable. So the claim that India’s poverty has declined to below 5% doesn’t hold water: Second, the NITI Aayog has made no effort to even determine an official poverty line, last defined in the Census 2001.
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Indian Medical Association seeks FIR against Ramdev
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UP blunder: 20 jabbed with Covaxin after getting Covishield as first dose
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Covid-19: IMA slaps Rs 1,000 crore notice on Patanjali boss Ramdev
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Guj HC slams state gov’t for lax attitude to fire safety
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