Criticism
The Planning Commission has faced criticism for spending whopping 35 lakh (US$63,700) to renovate two blocks of toilets, while declaring a very low, and arguably unrealistic, threshold of poverty of a monthly consumption of 859.6 (US$15.64) in urban and 672.8 (US$12.24) in rural areas.
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