Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia is meeting Planning Panel members and Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today on the per capita Below Poverty Line, BPL cap. He would also take a decision on filing another affidavit to clear the wind regarding the controversy.

The Plan Panel Deputy Chairperson, who returned from a 10-day foreign visit on Saturday, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday and admitted that the affidavit saying that per capita per day expenditure of 32 and 26 rupees was enough to sustain oneself, had created confusion.

Mr.Ahluwalia is said to have told PM that he will discuss the issue with the Panel members today and then take a decision on filing another affidavit to clear the wind regarding the controversy.

Two Plan Panel members , Abhijit Sen and Mihir Shah and Rural Development minister Jairam Ramesh have expressed reservation on the poverty line.

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is believed to have asked the Plan panel to do a re-think on its definition of poverty

AIR correspondent reports, the Central government disburses funds worth one lakh crore rupees to the state governments to provide subsidised food grains to the poor and money for building homes under ‘Indira Awas Yojana’.

In the years to come, the government plans to give subsidy directly to the poor through ‘Unique Identification Number’ (UID) linked bank accounts and any upward revision in the poverty line would mean higher allocation, defeating the government's attempt of fiscal consolidation.