User talk:Immanuel choudhury

poverty line
Poverty line defines a treshold income. Household earning below this treshold line are considered as a poor or BPL. Different countries have different methods to measure this treshold income, it depend on the countries socio-economic needs. Earlier India use to define the poverty line based on a method define by a task force in 1979.It was based on the expenditure for buying foods worth 2400 calories in rural and 2100 calories in urban areas. In 2011, the suresh tandulkar committee defined a person who spend rupee 33.3 inurban and 27.2 rupees in rural areas in per day are defined a living below poverty line( BPL).