AUG 30- Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev Shukla in a written statement to Rajya Sabha has stated that 27 crore people live below the poverty line in the country. Shukla also informed the house that population on March 1, 2012 was estimated at 123 crore.
As per the population census of 2011 conducted by the Office of Registrar General of India, the population was estimated at 121 crore on March 1, 2011. India added 2 crore babies in the intervening period.
Centre also informed the House that as per Tendulkar Committee’s methodology for 2012-13 percentage of people living below poverty line in the country has been estimated at 21.9 per cent. As per the population census of 1951, India’s population in that decade was 36 crore. Today 27 crore people live below poverty line.
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