The Expert Groups and their recommendations for estimating poverty and BPL families are given below:
- Tendulkar Committee recommended to adopt MRP based estimates of consumption expenditure as the basis for future poverty lines.
- S. R. Hashim Committee has been set up to review the methodology for conducting BPL Census in rural areas.
- An Expert Group under the Chairmanship of Dr. N. C. Saxena has been constituted to recommend the methodology for identification of BPL families in urban areas.
Which of these statements is not wrong in this context?
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Only 1
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Only 2
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Only 3
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None of these
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Correct answer
Explanation
Tendulkar Committee, while acknowledging the multidimensional nature of poverty, recommended moving away from anchoring poverty lines to the calorie-intake norm to adopting MRP based estimates of consumption expenditure as the basis for future poverty lines. (Statement 1 is correct.)
A Committee under the Chairmanship of Dr. N.C. Saxena set up to review the methodology for conducting BPL Census in rural areas has recommended automatic exclusion of some privileged sections and automatic inclusion of certain deprived and vulnerable sections of society, and a survey for the remaining population to rank them on a scale of 10. (Statement 2 is incorrect.)
An Expert Group under S. R. Hashim has been constituted by the Planning Commission to recommend the methodology for identification of BPL families in urban areas. (Statement 3 is also incorrect.)