The national poverty line for 2011-12 was estimated at _________ per capita per month for urban areas of India.

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SSC CGL 2023 Tier-I Official Paper (Held On: 21 Jul 2023 Shift 1)

Answer 1

The correct answer is Rs. 1,000.

Key Points

According to an International Monetary Fund paper, extreme poverty, defined by the World Bank as living on US$1.9 or less in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms.
According to the Planning Commission in 2011-12, the national poverty line using Tendulkar methology is Rs 816 per capita per month for rural areas and Rs 1000 per capita per month for urban areas of India.
The current poverty line is 1,059.42 Indian Rupees per month in rural areas and 1,286 Indian rupees per month in urban areas.

Additional Information POVERTY MEASUREMENT IN INDIA:

Poverty can be defined as a condition in which an individual or household lacks the financial resources to afford a basic minimum standard of living.
India has a long history of studies on measurement of poverty. The erstwhile Planning Commission was the nodal agency in India for estimation of poverty.
Various expert groups constituted by the Planning Commission have estimated the number of people living in poverty in India:
- Working Group (1962).
- Study by VM Dandekar and N Rath (1971).
- Task Force on “Projections of Minimum Needs and Effective Consumption Demand” headed by Dr. Y. K. Alagh (1979).
- Lakdawala Expert Group (1993): Headed by Professor D.T. Lakdawala.
- Tendulkar Expert Group (2009): It was setup in 2005 and was headed by Suresh Tendulkar.
- Rangrajan Committee (2014): It was set up in 2012 and was headed by Chakravarthi Rangarajan.