The Myth of Poor

Sometime I wonder who is poor  in this country, after this question I again wonder who needs to be called poor in this country. After doing some home work I got to know that we are following a benchmark set by Tendulkar committee way back in 2004-05 & have been modified during time to time as government desired.

We are living in a dynamic world where things are changing at a pace it hasn’t changed before. Prices of petrol ,fruits & vegetables, real estate ,gold ,tickets etc have been very dynamic in past couple of year. Now All these price changes are directly or indirectly impacting every one & since they are impacting everyone so we should have an system of measuring the degree of impact  & consequently all policy framework should be based on the same. Currently we are doing the national survey once and keep it  believing for years. As per the latest report almost 40 odd crore people in this country are poor. Please tell me how many of them are poor post latest petrol hike, how many of them are poor post latest double digit food inflation & how many of them could have been poor if railway ticket hike would not have been reversed?

Probably we don’t have very accurate answer of these questions & this is the reason that we don’t have very accurate policy framework to address this question. Hence solution lies to answer this question” Who is poor in this country??”…..