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BPL means Below Poverty Line. Can you please tell what is this limit?
Asked by Seshadri Srinivasan,
23 Apr '11 01:25 pm
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In India it seems to be undecided....It differs among state to state also.
Internationally, an income of less than $1 per day per head of purchasing power parity is defined as extreme poverty. By this estimate, about 40% percent of Indians are extremely poor. Income-based poverty lines consider the bare minimum income to provide basic food requirements; it does not account for other essentials such as health care and education. That is why some times the poverty lines have been described as starvation lines.
Answered by anantharaman, 23 Apr '11 01:28 pm
Internationally, an income of less than $1 per day per head of purchasing power parity is defined as extreme poverty. By this estimate, about 40% percent of Indians are extremely poor. Income-based poverty lines consider the bare minimum income to provide basic food requirements; it does not account for other essentials such as health care and education. That is why some times the poverty lines have been described as starvation lines.
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