AHMEDABAD: One-third of Gujarat’s population or over 31 lakh families are living Below Poverty Line (BPL). The poverty line is estimated at Rs 816 per capita per month for rural areas and Rs 1,000 for ...

New Delhi: Challanging Narendra Modi's claims of development in Gujarat, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh has alleged that number of BPL families under Modi rule has actually increased in ...

Chief Minister Narendra Modi is all set to drop nearly 12 lakh families from the list of families below poverty line. GANDHINAGAR: In an attempt to show that poverty in Gujarat is not as high as is ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Gandhinagar, July 24 (IANS) The Gujarat government will provide additional sugar and edible oil at subsidised rates to over 75 lakh ration card holders, primarily Antyodaya and BPL ...

GANDHINAGAR: The people of Gujarat need to know that a sizeable portion of the taxes they pay the state government is finding its way to many affluent people, simply because they hold below poverty ...

For the BPL (Below Poverty Line) families in Gujarat, it is going to be a direct jump from conventional kerosene or firewood cooking to a green fuel, bypassing the ‘cylinder era’. Thanks to the ...

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court issued a notice to the Centre yesterday, directing it to explain within a month about the criteria by which a person could be issued below poverty line (BPL) ration ...

Isn't it a joke? Asks Congress and seeks apology from Gujarat CM for insulting the poor. New Delhi: Latching on to a BPL criteria of people earning below Rs 10.80 daily found on a Gujarat government ...

Over 10 lakh Antyodaya families in Gujarat's slums received free electricity under the Jhumpda Vijalikaran Yojana. In the ...

Gandhinagar: On an average 26 families are slipping down below the poverty line every day in Gujarat touted as the number one state in the country by the BJP leadership The Tribune, now published from ...

“In 1999-2000, the number of poor families was 26.19 lakhs, but it has now risen to 31 lakhs, so within a span of 22 years," said economist Hemant Kumar Singh. AHMEDABAD: In the midst of claims of ...

The Congress on Monday discovered that Narendra Modi-ruled Gujarat has “surpassed” even the Planning Commission’s cut-off of ₹32 and ₹28 a day in urban and rural areas, respectively, as an estimation ...