Indices of Bihar’s development

According to a Planning Commission report the new poverty line defined by the UPA II government on the basis of jocularly cruel doctrine of an earning Rs.22/day for the rural and Rs.29/day for the urban areas, 53.5% of Bihar population is under the poverty line while the national average is 30%. Orissa once ill-famed for Kalahandi starvation death; the line draws at 37% (2009-10) from 57% in 2004-05. A marked improvement of 20% during the past five years whereas Bihar has shown no progress on this count during the same period.

Now these figures narrate a horrifying picture of the economy. The majority of the people are cursed to live as sub-humans.