Even as the media raves about “India getting sexy at sixty,” a report by the state-run National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) reveals that 77% of Indians – more than 800 million people – live on less than half a dollar (about Rs 20) a day! The break-up of these figures is even more shocking - 6.4% live on less than Rs. 9 per day, 15.4% live on Rs 9-12 per day, 19% on Rs. 12-15 per day and 36% between rs 15-20 per day.
And this is not a report by an NGO, but by a state-run body.
The next time someone tells me about the booming Indian economy or "our amazing rate of 8 per cent plus economic growth," he or she will have to excuse me for bursting into laughter.
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