By IANS,
Kolkata: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Sunday advised union Home Minister P. Chidambaram to study more carefully the reports of his own government to better his understanding of the prevailing socio-economic conditions of the country’s people.
Joining issue with Chidamabaram for accusing the Left parties of having propagated a “myth” that 77 percent of India’s population live below Rs.20 per day, the CPI-M central committee said it had merely cited the figure provided by the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector.
The commission was set up by the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in 2004.
“The report on ‘Conditions of Work and Livelihoods in the Unorganised Sector’ submitted to the Prime Minister by the NCEUS in August 2007 states this on the first page of its first chapter,” a central committee statement said.
“The home minister would do well to study the reports of his own government more carefully in order to better his understanding of the prevailing socio-economic conditions of people in the country,” it added.