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    The depressing message from the Household Consumption survey

    The top 5 percent in urban India spent 2.6 times more on cereals than the poorest 5 percent. And they spent one and a half times as much on cereals than those in the 40-50 percent fractile, which is Middle India. A similar gap exists in cereal consumption between the rich and poor in rural India. The point is: if they had the means, the poor would increase their intake of cereals, or consume a better quality of cereals

    Manas Chakravarty
    June 12, 2024 / 09:05 IST
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