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India needs the ‘Garibi Hatao’ slogan back 

Officially, one can argue: India doesn’t have poverty. This is
because we don’t know who is poor in the country. And this is due to
another case of governance mala fide. We have not counted the poor in
the country for nearly a decade now. The last one, released in 2019,
was junked by the Union government; probably it showed a poverty level
politically not suitable for the ‘New India’ slogan.

But why do we need to talk about poverty, or garibi, now? First, we
have stopped taking stock of poverty as mentioned above. This makes it
difficult to assess the impacts of hundreds of development programmes
India implements, ironically to eradicate poverty not even knowing
about it.

However, our development schemes continue to target a section of
people referred to as below the poverty line (BPL), identified years
ago. Second, going by all economic indicators of recent years, it is
certain that a large section of the country remains poor or is not
able to reach a decent level of living.

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the development indicator is not positive, then we need to reassess
our anti-poverty programmes. This is also because there is a section
of the population in a certain geography who remain poor despite
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