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Post by confuzzled dude Fri Jan 23, 2015 10:53 pm

The chart shows that 0.8% of the total population saw its status improve from the poor to the middle class category between 2004-05 and 2009-10. That’s not all—8.5% of India’s population moved up from the so-called vulnerable category to middle class over these five years and 13.9% improved its status from poor to vulnerable.

True, there were quite a few people who slipped into the poorer classes, testimony to the precarious nature of livelihood for most Indians, but the proportion of people in the middle class went up from 16.8% of the population in 2004-05 to 20% by 2009-10. The proportion of the poor, too, declined. 

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/5rcy9mM5FgSWrExjOMEgfI/World-Bank-on-upward-mobility-into-Indias-new-middle-class.html

-> 40% of India's poor moved above the poverty line, mainly due to the increase in non-farm jobs in rural India, thanks to MGNREGA act; and what did the present govt. do, revamp and kill it.

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