Top Law News ’25 percent urban population of India is poor August 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A quarter of India’s urban population lives below the poverty line and are poor, the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja said Wednesday. Orissa has the highest percentage of urban poor in the country, she added.Quoting the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) for the year 2004-05, Selja informed the Rajya Sabha that […] Read more ยป '25 percent urban population of India is poor' (NSSO 25 percent urban population National Sample Survey Office urban population of India is poor'