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Indian homeless’s wait to receive free food distributed outside a mosque ahead of Eid al-Fitr in New Delhi, India

India has some of the poorest people in the world. The Indian Government says that the poverty line is around  ₹ 859.6 (12.5 USD) in urban areas. In 2012, the latest report by the Planning Commission of India (Tendulkar Committee) reported that 26% of all people in India fall below the international poverty line of US$ 1.25 per day. Over the last decade, poverty has been witnessed a consistent decline with the levels dropping from 37.2% in 2004-05 to 29.8% in 2009-10. The number of poor people is now estimated at 250 million.

Tsering Topgyal / AP

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