Question

Difference between poverty line and starvation line

Answer 1

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Explanation:

In urban areas, the poverty rate fell 12 percentage points to 13.7 per cent from 25.7 per cent, while in rural areas 16.3 percentage points to 25.7 per cent from 42 per cent. The poverty line given by the Planning Commission is based on the methodology of the Suresh Tendulkar committee.

Approximately 450 million people survive on a monthly per capita consumption expenditure of Rs 447. If you break it down to a daily expenditure, it comes to less than Rs 15. India's poverty line is actually a euphemism for a starvation line. ... It should therefore be called as the starvation line.

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