Beyond the debate, govt. accepts 65% Indians are poor.Notional poverty line will stand at a per capita expenditure of around Rs. 50 per day in rural areas and Rs. 62 in urban area.As first reported by The Hindu, the Planning Commission has revised the official poverty headcount ratio down from 37 per cent of the total population in 2004-05 to 22 per cent of the population in 2011-12.
“This is a step away from the narrow definition of poverty we have been using, where the line is really what I call a ‘kutta-billi’ line; only cats and dogs can survive on it,” said N.C. Saxena, member of the National Advisory Council, who headed a Planning Commission panel on poverty that recommended automatic inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Even if they have raised the per capita amount still I don't think in today's world surviving in 50/- in case of rural areas or 62/- in case of urban areas is easy.Every muslim is ready to fight when this name "Islam" comes and someone is saying against our religion.But what do you islam don't teach about "zakaat(giving 2.5% to poor)"? Now I am an engineer I realized when govt is forcefully taking at least 10% of your salary when it exceeds to 2 lakhs. But giving to needy people just 2.5% of our salary is headache for most of us.Even if zakaat is farz(compulsory) in Islam most of us we don't care.If every muslim give Zakaat in india at least we only can reduce more than half of poverty in india.
If I talk about any other religion may be it's not farz(compulsory) on you, but at least some amount of your earning say 2-3% give to needy people so we can remove poverty from india irrespective of just relying on our govt. So at least our brothers who are hungry they can also eat at least 2 times a day.
“This is a step away from the narrow definition of poverty we have been using, where the line is really what I call a ‘kutta-billi’ line; only cats and dogs can survive on it,” said N.C. Saxena, member of the National Advisory Council, who headed a Planning Commission panel on poverty that recommended automatic inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Even if they have raised the per capita amount still I don't think in today's world surviving in 50/- in case of rural areas or 62/- in case of urban areas is easy.Every muslim is ready to fight when this name "Islam" comes and someone is saying against our religion.But what do you islam don't teach about "zakaat(giving 2.5% to poor)"? Now I am an engineer I realized when govt is forcefully taking at least 10% of your salary when it exceeds to 2 lakhs. But giving to needy people just 2.5% of our salary is headache for most of us.Even if zakaat is farz(compulsory) in Islam most of us we don't care.If every muslim give Zakaat in india at least we only can reduce more than half of poverty in india.
If I talk about any other religion may be it's not farz(compulsory) on you, but at least some amount of your earning say 2-3% give to needy people so we can remove poverty from india irrespective of just relying on our govt. So at least our brothers who are hungry they can also eat at least 2 times a day.
