Rangarajan panel submits report on poverty to
PlanComm
01/07/2014 15:48
Former PMEAC chief C Rangarajan has submitted the report on Tendulkar Committee methodology for estimating poverty to Planning Minister Rao Inderjit Singh, reported PTI. "I met Minister of State for Planning Rao Inderjit Singh yesterday in Delhi and submitted the report on poverty," Rangarajan told PTI. According to media reports, the Planning Commission in May 2012 had constituted the expert group under the then Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council Chairman C Rangarajan to review the Tendulkar Committee methodology for estimating poverty, following an up roar over the number of poor in the country. The report of the expert group is expected to clear the ambiguity over the number of poor in the country. Asked about the suggestions or recommendations of panel, he replied, "It is not proper for me to tell you. Now government has to take a view on the report." The expert group was to submit its report in 7-9 months of its creation. But it got several extensions with the last one extended to June 30, as per the media reports.
01/07/2014 15:48
Former PMEAC chief C Rangarajan has submitted the report on Tendulkar Committee methodology for estimating poverty to Planning Minister Rao Inderjit Singh, reported PTI. "I met Minister of State for Planning Rao Inderjit Singh yesterday in Delhi and submitted the report on poverty," Rangarajan told PTI. According to media reports, the Planning Commission in May 2012 had constituted the expert group under the then Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council Chairman C Rangarajan to review the Tendulkar Committee methodology for estimating poverty, following an up roar over the number of poor in the country. The report of the expert group is expected to clear the ambiguity over the number of poor in the country. Asked about the suggestions or recommendations of panel, he replied, "It is not proper for me to tell you. Now government has to take a view on the report." The expert group was to submit its report in 7-9 months of its creation. But it got several extensions with the last one extended to June 30, as per the media reports.
