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The nutritional requirements per person have been used to determine minimum per capita expenditure for a non-poor person. What is the present nutritional requirement to qualify as non-poor for urban areas?

The nutritional requirements per person have been used to determine minimum per capita expenditure for a non-poor person. What is the present nutritional requirement to qualify as non-poor for urban areas? Correct Answer 2100

  • The nutritional requirements per person have been used to determine minimum per capita expenditure for a non-poor person.
  • YK Alagh committee recommended the nutritional requirements to qualify as a non-poor are 2100 calories for urban areas and 2400 for rural areas.
  • These nutritional requirements are then translated into monetary terms and adjusted with price deflator (inflation measurement) to arrive at poverty line year after year.
  • Before 1970s, a unified daily expenditure per head was calculated at the central level to determine poverty ratio in the country.
  • The system was changed to separate rural-urban poverty lines in 1970s and further to state based poverty lines in 1990s.

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