{"id":12604,"date":"2011-08-04T23:45:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T18:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=12604"},"modified":"2011-08-04T23:45:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T18:15:53","slug":"25-percent-urban-population-of-india-is-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/25-percent-urban-population-of-india-is-poor","title":{"rendered":"&#8217;25 percent urban population of India is poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Kumari-Selja.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12605\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/25-percent-urban-population-of-india-is-poor\/kumari-selja\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/Kumari-Selja.jpg?fit=259%2C195&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"259,195\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kumari Selja\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/Kumari-Selja.jpg?fit=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/Kumari-Selja.jpg?fit=259%2C195&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12605\" title=\"Kumari Selja\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Kumari-Selja.jpg?resize=259%2C195&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/Kumari-Selja.jpg?w=259&amp;ssl=1 259w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/Kumari-Selja.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>A quarter of India&#8217;s urban population lives below the poverty line and are poor, the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>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 807.96 lakh people &#8211; which comprise 25.7 percent of the urban population of the country &#8211; were poor.In Orissa, 44.30 percent of the population live below the poverty line.<\/p>\n<p>Further, it was informed that a new scheme, &#8216;Rajiv Awas Yojana&#8217; (RAW) was launched June 2, 2011 to create a slum-free India. 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