Thirty Two and Twenty Six ; the planning commision has underlined its words. And they left me confused, whether i am rich or not.
In the opinion of the PC, those who have a daily income of 26 Rupees in rural areas and that of 32 Rupees in urban areas are no longer poor. And they claim to have reached this conclusion in the light of authentic study results.
In a country, where oil price scaling new hights bimonthly, where vegetable prices skyrocketing, where self financing colleges carrying out day robbery, where cola companies exploiting the last drop of drinking water, where the 90% of the wealth is concentrated in a few persons, you are still rich if you earn 32 rupees a day. Isn't that invention something deserves a grand applaud ?
So what you can do with these 32 rupees ? In North India, chapathi (assume 5 rupees for one )is the main food item. So in govt's words Richness is the financial capacity to eat 6 chapathis a day without any curry ! You can save 1 rupee for future ! Coming to South (where things are far better ??), they eat rice. Govt gives a kg rice for a rupee, and a person need barely 150 gm rice a day. If you are ostentatious, you can have a curry of 15 - 20 rupees ! More money to save !!
If you earn 32 rupees a day, eventhough you dont have electricity, no LPG connection, no money to spend on education, health and leisure, you are rich !!
I dont know whether the planning commission and the govt are living in fool's paradise, but to believe all this nonsense, i wasn't born yesterday..
Put your thinking cap on, friends..
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