ESI Topic – “Poverty”

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 What is Poverty?

Poverty is a State or Condition in which a person or community lacks the financial

resources and essentials to enjoy a minimum standard of living and well being.
• Often passed from one generation to another.
• Alcohol & Substance Abuse
• Less Access to education.
• Increased level of disease.
• Give birth to inequality.

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 Types of Poverty

Types of Poverty
• Absolute
• Relative
• Other
• Situational
• Generational
• Multidimensional

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 Measuring Poverty
Use of
Poverty Line Consumption
Estimation Expenditure
Surveys

Poverty Line Estimation

• Poverty and Unbritish Rule in India (1901)
• National Planning Committee’s (1938)
• The Bombay Plan (1944)
• Working Group (1962)
• Study by VM Dandekar and N Rath (1971)
• Task Force on “Projections of Minimum Needs and Effective Consumption Demand” headed by Dr. Y. K. Alagh (1979)
• Lakdawala Expert Group (1993)
• Tendulkar Expert Group (2009)
• Rangrajan Committee (2014)

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 Measuring Poverty
Details Tendulkar Committee Rangarajan Committee
Set Up By Planning Commission Planning Commission
Set Up In 2005 2012
Report Submitted 2009 2014
Poverty Estimation Per Capita Expenditure Monthly Expenditure of
Method Monthly Family of 5
Urban Poverty Line 33 47
(Per / Day / Person)
Urban Poverty Line 1000 1407
(Per / Month / Person)
Urban Poverty Line 5000 7035
(Per Month family of 5)

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 Measuring Poverty
Details Tendulkar Committee Rangarajan Committee
Rural Poverty Line 27 32
(Per / Day / Person)
Rural Poverty Line 816 972
(Per / Month / Person)
Rural Poverty Line Per month 4080 4860
family of 5 members.
Below Poverty Line (Crores) 27 37
Calorie Expenditure Only Calorie Value Calorie + Protein + Fat
Calorie in Rural 2400 2155
Calorie in Urban 2100 2090

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 Latest Data – MPI (17th October 2022)
News -
• Poverty in India fell by 415 million in 15 yrs.

Highlights -
• The number of people living below the poverty line in India decreased by 415 million between 2005-06 and 2019-21.
• However, the index has stated that India still has the world's highest number of poor at 228.9 million, followed by Nigeria (96.7
million projected in 2020).
• The report found that across 111 countries which were assessed using the most recent comparable data available, 1.2 billion
people (19.1 per cent) live in acute poverty and almost half of these people (593 million) are children under the age of 18 years.
• According to the report, India had 97 million poor children in 2019-21. This translates into more than one in five children (21.8
per cent)--more than the total number of poor people in any other country covered by MPI.
• Bihar continues to be the poorest state in the country. Others among the top 10 poorest states were Jharkhand, Meghalaya,
Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Arunachal Pradesh and Rajasthan. West Bengal was the only state
among the top-10 poorest in India in 2015-16, and not in 2019-21.
Data By -
• Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released on Monday jointly by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and
the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford.

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