An exercise in undercounting the poor
In a country such as India with vast numbers of the poor, counting the poor often becomes an exercise in undercounting and dividing them, to suit the wholly inhuman policy of targeted provision of what should be universal rights.
Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan, Syed Munawar Hasan, has said that the deprivations of a common man increased due to poor management of resources and every one must come forward to help out the people suffering in natural calamities.