Additional Essential Factors for Considering the Below Poverty Lines (BPL) Identification in India

Shiv Kumar; Dr. Vikram Singh; Dr. Prabhat Srivastava

Abstract

This article studies about the additionally proposed factors of Below Poverty Lines (BPL) identification after analysing the past factors of consideration of BPL in India. Since 1992, every fifth year plan had many modifications and considerations by the various expert committees. We have critically analyzed all the previous considerations for BPL identification but still we found the gap to consider few essential factors for BPL identification in urban and rural areas in India. The poverty is very significant factor in India for its future economic growth. Therefore the inequality among the poor and considerably poor for different population of Subgroups are necessary to analyse with help of statistical data from National Family Health Survey 3 (NFHS-3). Further we have tried to find out the economical factors which produce a direct impact on different population of these subgroups. Finally we have discussed our finding through critical analysis and proposed the few essential factors that are vital to be considering for BPL identification in India.

Keywords

Below Poverty Lines (BPL), Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) multidimensional poor, Socioeconomic classes, poverty in India,

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Cites this article as

S. Kumar, D. V. S. , D. P. Srivastava, "Additional Essential Factors for Considering the Below Poverty Lines (BPL) Identification in India", International Journal of Innovative Research in Engineering and Management (IJIREM), Vol-1, Issue-3, Page No-18-29, 2014. Available from: