Discuss and examine what reforms are required in cbfc to remain relevant in a dynamic and evolving society
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Other recommendation of the Expert Group was to abandon the pro-rata
adjustment of NSS based total house hold consumption expenditure to National
Accounts Statistics based total private consumption expenditure as the gap between
the two had widened overtime. The Expert Group observed that it was better to rely
exclusively on the NSS for estimating the poverty ratios. The Government of India
accepted the recommendations of the Expert Group with minor modifications in 1997
(GoI, 2011).
There has been no uniform measure of poverty in India. The Planning
Commission of India has accepted the Tendulkar Committee report which says that
33% of people in India live below the Poverty line (Jay, 2013). A brief analysis
showing absolute trend in poverty in India is shown in Table - 2.1 about 32.1 crore
persons living below poverty line in 1973-1974. It remained almost stagnant during a
decade of 1973-1984 but it come down to 26 crore in 1999-2000. Poverty in rural
sector always has been on higher side as compared to urban India. But it came down
in 2007 in both rural and urban sector. By the end of 11th plan number of poor
persons are expected to come down to 10 crore.
Table 2.1
Head Count Estimates of Poverty trends in India (Crore)
Year Rural Urban India
1973-74 26.1 6.0 32.1
1977-78 26.4 6.5 32.9
1983-84 25.2 7.1 32.3
1987-88 23.2 7.5 30.0
1993-94 24.4 7.6 32.0
1999-2000 19.3 6.7 26.0
2007 17.0 3.0 20.0
2011 - - 10.0
Sources: Government of India (2002-03 & 2010-11). Economic Survey Eleventh
Five Year Plan, Ministry of Finance