Poverty in India :-

                                                                                               In  India there are approximately 32% people are under poverty line. They are extremely poor. This calculation is behalf of international poverty line. International measurement of poverty line is $1.90 In American Dollar. And according to this calculation approximately 21%population is under below poverty line. In time of 1960’s the need was R2 for rural and R2.3 for urban. And that time there was no cry but now a day’s t increases up to  R 33 for rural and R47 for urban.

In Kerala government apply rules that people who are sc, st, mentally, retarded or disabled persons people who don’t have televisions and refrigerators  at  their homes and no facility of drinking water, no sanitation facility, no house and land are under poverty line.

In India BPL calculation 2004 approx 125,000 were under poverty line