It has been officially announced that 37% of the people in India are still below the poverty line. This has been reported by the Tendulkar Committee. The Planning Commission has also accepted the report. The statistics of the current report suggest that there is still a huge gap in between the planning and its execution.

The poverty in the country has increased by almost 10%. Earlier, the Planning Commission has been asked by the EGoM to submit the report on poverty line. The commission was asked to find out and specify the actual number of people who live below poverty line.

The EGoM has also faced the severe criticism of the draft legislation on the right to food. As per recent developments, the planning commission has approved the report submitted by the Tendulkar Committee. They have taken aspects like food, basic expenditure on health and education etc. into consideration while finalizing the report.

However, the Arjun Sengupta report had said 77% of Indians live on less than Rs 20 per day, where as 50% of the people has been reported to live below poverty by the N C Saxena Committee Report.