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India's Tendulkar methodology defines poverty mainly in terms of what?Read the answer and worked solution →What does absolute poverty mean?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did the Tendulkar Committee submit its poverty report?Read the answer and worked solution →By the Tendulkar method, how many Indians were below the poverty line in 2011–12?Read the answer and worked solution →By the Rangarajan method, what share was below the poverty line in 2009–10?Read the answer and worked solution →Dandekar and Rath in 1971 defined the poverty line using how many daily calories?Read the answer and worked solution →The 1979 Task Force said an average rural dweller needed about how many calories daily?Read the answer and worked solution →The election slogan Garibi Hatao of the 1970s called for what?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was the Bonded Labor System Act passed to end debt bondage?Read the answer and worked solution →In October 2015 the World Bank set its international poverty line at what daily amount?Read the answer and worked solution →Which daily line did the World Bank adopt after its 2005 cost-of-living studies?Read the answer and worked solution →The World Bank's 2025 brief says India's extreme poverty fell from 16.2% to what share?Read the answer and worked solution →UNDP said India lifted how many people out of extreme poverty from 2005–06 to 2015–16?Read the answer and worked solution →British-era policies that cut artisan manufacturing caused what process in India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which famine of 1943 killed millions despite rising farm output in South Asia?Read the answer and worked solution →The National Planning Committee of 1936 set what nutrition target per adult worker?Read the answer and worked solution →The 1936 planning goals set housing at how much space per capita?Read the answer and worked solution →What did the 2022–23 Household Consumption Expenditure Survey aim to estimate?Read the answer and worked solution →MGNREGA guarantees how many days of employment a year?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act passed?Read the answer and worked solution →Which school scheme is cited, with MGNREGA, as a welfare driver of poverty decline?Read the answer and worked solution →Aadhaar-enabled direct benefit transfers had saved how much by March 2023?Read the answer and worked solution →How does India set a household's poverty line?Read the answer and worked solution →Which had the lowest rural monthly poverty threshold in 2011–12?Read the answer and worked solution →How often does the NSSO generally report employment and unemployment results?Read the answer and worked solution →Who led the 2017 panel that urged more frequent employment surveys than the five-yearly ones?Read the answer and worked solution →Which urban segment covers self-employment and casual wage workers?Read the answer and worked solution →The rural and informal sectors accounted for what share of employment in 2011?Read the answer and worked solution →What does the term jobless growth describe?Read the answer and worked solution →The leaked 2017–18 NSSO survey put unemployment at what four-decade high?Read the answer and worked solution →

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India's Tendulkar methodology defines poverty mainly in terms of what?

  1. Annual income tax paid
  2. Spending per person
  3. Rooms in a dwelling
  4. Land owned by family
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Correct answer: B. Spending per person

The Tendulkar approach counts spending on a basket of essential goods per person rather than annual income.

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What does absolute poverty mean?

  1. Complete lack of means for basic needs
  2. Income below the national average
  3. Having less income than a neighbour
  4. Earning less than the richest tenth
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Correct answer: A. Complete lack of means for basic needs

Absolute poverty is a total lack of means to secure food, clothing and shelter, not a comparison with others.

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In which year did the Tendulkar Committee submit its poverty report?

  1. 2005
  2. 2009
  3. 2001
  4. 2014
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Correct answer: B. 2009

The Suresh Tendulkar Committee handed in its report in November 2009.

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