GROUP B: - Pre-Independence Poverty Estimation in India

 

• Dadabhai Naoroji who took concrete steps in identifying the poor in India. He, formulated a poverty line that ranged from Rs 16 to Rs 35 per capita per year, based on 1867-1868., 
• The poverty line proposed by him was based on the cost of a, subsistence or minimum basic diet (rice or flour, dal, mutton,, vegetables, ghee, vegetable oil, and salt).,

• National Planning Committee’s (1938) poverty line (ranging from ₹15 to ₹20, per capita per month) was also based on a minimum standard of, living perspective in which nutritional requirements were implicit.,
• In 1938, the National Planning Committee was set up by Subhash, Chandra Bose under the chairmanship of Jawaharlal Nehru for the, purpose of drawing up an economic plan with the fundamental aim, to ensure an adequate standard of living for the masses.,

• The Bombay Plan (1944) proponents had suggested a poverty line of ₹75 per, capita per year.,
• The Bombay Plan was a set of a proposal of a small group of, and influential business leaders in Bombay for the development of the post-independence economy of India.