Digvijaya slams poverty criteria

Digvijaya said the criteria have baffled him. I have always failed to understand the Planning Commission criteria for fixing poverty line. It is too abstract,cant be same for all areas, he tweeted. The first indicator of poverty is malnourishment and anemia in the family,which he said was easily measurable. Cant we have that as a criteria?

Union minister Kapil Sibal too had questioned the criteria. If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line,there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000? he had said.