The Bihar chief minister disagreed with the estimate that the number of people living below the poverty line has shrunk to 21.9 per cent in 2011-12 from 37.2 per cent in 2004-05.
”In Bihar, the number of poor is much more than this estimate,” he said.
Kumar said his government had organised an international meet on poverty here in 2008 which had issued a ‘Patna declaration' emphasising right to live with dignity should be the criteria for estimation of poor.
A copy of the declaration was sent to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also, he said.
