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Case study - II

Poverty has many faces, which have been changing from place to place and across time and has been described in many ways. In pre-independent India, Dadabhai Naoroji was first to discuss the concept of poverty line. In post-independent India, there have been several attempts to work out a mechanism to identify the number of poor in the country. The official data on poverty is made to the public by the planning commission. It is estimated on the basis of consumption expenditure data collected by the National Sample Survey organisation. Most poverty alleviation programmes implemented are based on the perspective of the five year plans. The government has a variety of programmes to generate wage employment for the poor unskilled people living in rural area.

From 1973 to 2012 the poverty levels in some states were above the national poverty level. Choose the correct answer from the options :

Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh

The correct answer is option (2) : Odisha, Madhya pradesh, Bihar and Uttar pradesh

The state level trends in poverty are shown in given diagram. The two lines in the chart indicate the national poverty level. The first line from below indicates poverty level during 2011-12 and the other line indicates the same for the year 1973-74. This means, the proportion of poor in India during 1973-2012 has come down from 55 to 22 per cent. The chart also reveals that six states - Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Orissa - contained a large section of poor in 1973-74. During 1973- 2012, many Indian states reduced the poverty levels to a considerable extent. Yet, the poverty levels in four states - Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are still far above the national poverty level.