Poverty Report: Rangrajan 2014

Various Expert Groups formed by the Govt.
1. Y.K.Alagh: 1979
2. Lakdawala: 1993
3. Tendulkar: 2009

#Tendulkar=> Used the all India Urban poverty line basket as the reference to derive state-level rural and urban poverty.

#Rangrajan=> separate All India rural and urban Basket lines and deriving state level rural and urban estimates.

#Tendulkar=> Rejects calorie norms.

#Rangrajan used NSSO Survey => Due to large and growing variance in National Accounts Statistics and NSSO Estimates.

# Alternate view by Rangarajan=> Estimating the poverty line by reference to the ability of household to save.

Executive Summary:

1. Poverty line should be based on normative levels of adequate nourishment, clothing, house rent, conveyance and education.

2.Average requirement of calories, proteins and fats based on ICMR norm and differentiated by age, gender, and activity.

3. Calorie norm

                                     Rural              Urban
Calories                       2155Kcal        2090Kcal
Fats                              28gm               26gm
Proteins                        48gm               50gm

4. Various Baskets: Based on Modified Mixed Recall Period

                                    Rural             Urban
Food                            Rs 554           Rs 656

Cloths, Rent,               Rs.141          Rs.407
Education, Conveyance

Nutrition                     Rs 277         Rs 344
Requirement

5. New Poverty Line: 
                                   Rs. 972==> Rural
                                   Rs. 1407==> Uraban

6. Poverty Ratio:
                            Rural: 2011-12=> 30.9% [260.5m]
                                        2009-10=> 39.6%
                           Urban: 2011-12 => 26.4%[102.5m]
                                       2009-10=> 35.1%
                       All India: 2011-12=> 29.5%[363m]
                                        2009-10=> 38.2%