Question

1. What kind of people in India are considered poor?
2. What is poverty?
3. Mention one indicator of poverty.
4. What is a poverty line?
5. When is a person considered as poor?
6. Who are urban poor?
7. Which methods are used to estimate poverty line in India?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. They could be landless labourers in villages or people living in overcrowded jhuggis in cities. They could be daily wage earners at construction sites or child workers in dhabas. They could also be beggars with children in tatters.
2. Poverty is a situation in which a person is unable to get the minimum basic necessities of life, i.e., food, clothing and shelter for his or her sustenance.
3. Unemployment is one of the indicators of poverty.

4 . Poverty line is an indicator of poverty, i.e., it is a level of income which barely meets sustenance.

5 .A person is considered poor if his or her income or consumption level falls below the given minimum level necessary to fulfil the basic needs.

6 . An urban poor is a person who has an income of ₹ 1,000 per month and in terms of calories, has a requirement of 2,100 calories per person per day.

7 . The daily income and consumption method are used to estimate the poverty line in India .