{"id":47085,"date":"2014-02-06T09:14:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T07:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=47085"},"modified":"2014-02-06T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T07:14:11","slug":"india-witnesses-15-3-drop-in-population-living-below-poverty-line-47085","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/india-witnesses-15-3-drop-in-population-living-below-poverty-line-47085\/","title":{"rendered":"India witnesses 15.3 % drop in population living below poverty line"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47086\" style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-47086 \" alt=\"Poverty is widespread in India. \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Poverty-India-Nationalturk-6-549x360.jpeg\" width=\"439\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Poverty-India-Nationalturk-6-549x360.jpeg 549w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Poverty-India-Nationalturk-6-280x183.jpeg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Poverty-India-Nationalturk-6.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poverty is widespread in India.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>In a good news, people living below poverty line in India has come down by 15.3 per cent.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, Feb 6\/Nationalturk \u2013 In what depicts that India\u2019s living standard is improving, people living below poverty line in India has come down by 15.3 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs per the estimates of Planning Commission, the percentage of people living below the poverty line in India has come down by 15.3 percentage from 37.2% in 2004-05 to 21.9% in 2011-12,\u201d\u00a0 Indian Minister of Housing &amp; Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) Dr Girija Vyas informed Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian parliament.<\/p>\n<p>She said the percentage of people below the poverty line in India in 2011-12 has been estimated as 25.7% in rural areas and 13.7% in urban areas.<\/p>\n<h2>Poverty in India widespread<\/h2>\n<p>Poverty in India is widespread, with the nation estimated to have a third of the world&#8217;s poor. In 2010, the World Bank reported that 32.7% of all people in India fall below the international poverty line of US$ 1.25 per day while 68.7% live on less than US$ 2 per day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe respective ratios for the rural and urban areas were 41.8% and 25.7% in 2004-05 respectively,\u201d Girja said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said during the period 2004-05 to 2011-12, the decline in the rural poverty ratio is 16.1 percentage points which is higher than the 12 percentage points decline in the urban poverty ratio.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Asia News<\/b><strong>\/ NationalTurk India News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a good news, people living below poverty line in India has come down by 15.3 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,51,1,118,101,14],"tags":[64491,64493,64490,2546,64489,62534,45553,54633,57607,64492,7391],"class_list":["post-47085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-economy","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-below-poverty-line","tag-dr-girija-vyas","tag-improving","tag-india","tag-indias-living-standard","tag-indian-minister","tag-indian-parliament","tag-lok-sabha","tag-lower-house","tag-planning-commission","tag-world-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}