Lets get to some basics- A poverty line is identified in monetary units as the level of income or consumption expenditure required in order to avoid poverty. The consumption expenditure in order to avoid poverty is set at Rs 816 per person per month in the rural areas and Rs 1,000 per person per month in the urban areas. For a family of five people, this amounts to Rs 4,080 per month in rural areas and Rs 5000 per month in urban areas. According to the Tendulkar committee report released in Nov. 2009. Earlier poverty line which only took into account the expenditure required to consume an identified number of food calories. For rural India this number was 2,400 calories. For urban India this number was at 2,100 calories. Anyone consuming less than this was deemed to be poor.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 08:46:39 +0000
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