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Read the Passage and answer the following
In our daily life, we see poverty all around us. They could be landless labourers in
villages, people living in overcrowded jhuggis in cities, daily wage workers or child
workers in dhabas. According to facts, in India every fourth person is poor.
Poverty means hunger and lack of shelter, lack of clean water and sanitation facilities,
lack of a regular job at a minimum decent level. Poverty is considered as one of the
biggest challenges of independent India. India would be truly independent only when
the poorest of its people become free of human suffering.
Social scientists look at poverty through a variety of indicators. Usually, the indicators
are used to relate to the levels of income and consumption. But, now poverty is looked
through other social indicators like illiteracy level, lack of general resistance due to
malnutrition, lack of access to healthcare, lack of job opportunities, lack of access to
safe drinking water, sanitation etc.
The poverty line is a method to measure poverty based on income or consumption
levels. Poverty line varies according to time and place. In India, the poverty line is
determined through a minimum level of food requirement, clothing, footwear, fuel and
light, educational and medical requirement, etc.. These physical quantities are
multiplied by their prices in rupees. In India poverty is calculated on the basis of the
desired calorie requirement. The accepted average calorie requirement in India is 2400
calories per person per day in rural areas and 2100 calories per person per day in urban
areas. On the basis of these calculations, for the year 2011–12, the poverty line for a
person was fixed at Rs 816 per month for rural areas and Rs 1000 for urban areas
Answer the following questions
25.1. What do you mean by poverty?
25.2. What is the criteria for fixing poverty line?
25.3. Poverty line varies according to time and place. Why
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25.4. Why the calorie consumption is more in rural than urban areas?

Answer 1

Answer:

poverty means power in your hands

Answer 2

Answer:

Starch is an example of a natural polymer. A polymer is a long and repeating chain of the same molecule stuck together. Starch is a long-chain polymer of glucose molecules joined together. As the plant adds one glucose molecule to the starch polymer, one molecule of water is released.