Poverty as a challenge

Which definition is most appropriate for poverty?

• Poverty is a situation in which a

  person is unable to get the

  minimum basic necessities of life

• Poor women and children

• A situation in which a

  person does not have enough possessions

State which has highest poverty in India is :

• Karnataka

• Bihar

• Assam

• Madhya Pradesh

Find the Incorrect option :

• Poverty line is minimum level of income or consumption, necessary to fulfil the basic needs.

• A person is poor if his/her income or consumption is less than poverty line

• Poverty line may differ for each country

• World Bank’s poverty line is $1.90 per person per day for developing country and $5.50 per person per day for developed countries

Which of the following best describes Vulnerability to poverty of a person or community ?

• High illiteracy level

• Lack of general resistance due to malnutrition.

• Greater probability of becoming or remaining poor.

• Unable to have benefits, facilities which others enjoy

The average calorie requirement in rural India is _____ calories per person per day.

Which country has successfully reduced poverty from 88.3 per cent in 1981 to 0.7 per cent in 2015 ?

• Bangladesh

• Pakistan

• China

• USA

Poverty is reduced in Punjab and Haryana because of:

• human resource development

• proper management in public distribution of food grains

• high agricultural growth rates

Indian state _____ has least proportion of poor in India.

Raghu lives in a slum in Kanpur. He has a wife and two children. He works as an agricultural labour. He earns less than 1900 per month. However, with the help of a govt. scheme he manages to get 13 kg of food grains at the rate of `2 per kg wheat and ? `3 per kg rice.

Analyse the information given above and identify which one of the following Scheme has assisted Raghu :

• BPL Ration Card

• APL Ration Card

• Antyodaya Card

• Food for work

The ___________ Act aims for food and nutritional security life at affordable prices and enables people to live a life with dignity