Panel tasked with aim to lower poverty backs Tendulkar line
Q. Which category of people are classified as poor according to the Tendulkar poverty line?- Published on 21 Mar 16a. Those earning less than INR 33 per day
b. Those earning less than INR 25 per day
c. Those earning less than INR 15 per day
d. None of the above
ANSWER: Those earning less than INR 33 per day
Niti Aayog’s Task Force on Eliminating Poverty has argued the poverty line is not the basis of identification of the poor. Instead, it is the BPL census on the basis of which state governments identify the poor. Main criticism of the Tendulkar line is that it is low…but other estimates of poverty say little about what is happening to households in utter poverty. Committee chaired by former Chairperson of the PM’s Advisory Council and the National Statistical Commission, late Suresh Tendulkar calculated poverty line for 2004-2005 at levels that were equivalent in PPP terms to one US dollar per person per day. This was the internationally accepted poverty line at that time. Tendulkar computed poverty lines for 2004-2005 at a level that was equivalent in PPP terms to INR 33 per day.
