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What are you talking about? The UN's Millennium Development Goal (MDG) report says:

"India is expected to reduce its poverty rate from 51 per cent in 1990 to 24 per cent in 2015, reducing its number of extremely poor by 188 million."

http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?685779




As per BBC, 80% Indians surviving on 20 rupees/day http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6946800.stm


That's a typo, it's almost certainly meant to say 200 INR/day.

India's GDP per capita works out to be about 145 INR/day, so it's plausible that the 80'th percentile would be 33% higher than that. It's a little unlikely that the 80'th percentile would be 1/7 of that.


The article is old and it quotes an unnamed 'survey'.

I'm reminding you again, the discussion here is about progression of India from its own past but you're either coming up with figures for some particular year or some senseless comparison with other countries. In other words, you're simply trolling.


836 million Indians live on less than Rs 20 a day

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/836-million-indians-live-on-less-...




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