Only 270m are 'poor' but govt wants to feed 800m

The government's big election year selling point appears to have stumbled upon a problematic contradiction - if the UPA has managed to reduce poverty levels to a record-low, why does it need to feed two-thirds of the country's people? Planning Commission figures from Tuesday put India's overall poverty figure at 270 million people in 2011-12, in comparison...

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