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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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Covishield vaccine the costliest in India?
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NRIs petition Modi to act, save lives
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PUDR writes open letter to Delhi HC’s Chief Justice over Covid surge in prisons
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Vedanta’s plea to reopen Sterlite copper plant stirs unrest among locals!
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Despite increase in oxygen supply, the problem appears to continue: Bombay HC
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War imagery turned upside down!
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