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Q14 (UPPCS/2025) Economy › Growth, Development, Poverty & Employment

Consider the following Committees relating to poverty and arrange their formation in correct chronological order.
1. Lakdawala Committee
2. Rangarajan Committee
3. Tendulkar Committee
4. Dandekar and Rath Committee
Select the correct answer from the code given below :
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Result
Your answer: —  Â·  Correct: B

Explanation

The correct chronological order of the formation of committees for poverty estimation in India is:

  • Dandekar and Rath Committee (1971): They prepared the first systematic assessment of poverty in India, based on a daily intake of 2250 calories.
  • Lakdawala Committee (1989): Constituted by the Planning Commission, it recommended state-specific poverty lines and used the Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labourers (CPI-AL) and Industrial Workers (CPI-IW).
  • Tendulkar Committee (2005): It shifted the focus from calorie-based estimation to a broader basket of goods including health and education, using the Mixed Reference Period (MRP).
  • Rangarajan Committee (2012): Set up to review the Tendulkar methodology, it revised the poverty line thresholds upwards.

Thus, the sequence is 4-1-3-2, making option B correct.

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