Survey shocker: Half of rural India touched by poverty
TNN | Jul 4, 2015, 01.47 AM IST
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Survey shocker: Half of rural India touched by poverty
A farmer works in a paddy field at Reba Maheswar village, 56 kilometers east of Guwahati, India, Friday, July 3, 2015. India has released new socio-economic and caste census data on Friday that covers the period between 2011 and 2013 to show the wealth, living conditions and other details of the country's 1.2 billion people. (AP Photo/ Anupam Nath)
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NEW DELHI: India has a problem at hand and its magnitude is much higher than what was imagined or reported. That is the short and succinct message of the socio-economic caste census (SECC) released on Friday.
According to the census, 49% of rural households show signs of poverty. And 51% of households have 'manual casual labour' as the source of income. Whichever way the figures are sliced and diced, the poverty data leaves no scope for assurance or optimism. Till now, every survey had been showing poverty as receding.
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The survey has used seven indicators of deprivation: All definite pointers to subsistence-level existence and serious handicaps like 'kuccha houses', landless households engaged in manual labour, female-headed households with no adult working male member, households without a working adult, and all SC/ ST households.
