Concerted effort necessary to reduce poverty : Pant

  • 12/12/2003

  • Financial Express (New Delhi)

Planning Commission deputy chairman KC Pant has said that poverty reduction efforts should focus on states having high incidence of poverty like Bihar, MP, Orissa and UP. Inaugurating the retreat on state human development report in Goa, he said the four states together accounted for two-thirds of the country's poor and focussed attention was required if the target of poverty reduction was to be achieved.