UPPSC 2012 GS-1 Economy
Question

Tendulkar Committee has estimated that in India the * percentage of the population below poverty line is

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option B: 37.2

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “37.2”.

Tendulkar Committee has estimated that in India the percentage of the population below the poverty line is 37.2%.

Similar Questions:

Which among the following is NOT a major factors of economic growth ?
  1. Accumulation of capital and reforms in technology
  2. Change in population
  3. Division of labour in specialised activities
  4. Technocrats and Bureaucrats
The cause of Low productivity in Indian agriculture is:
  1. More people than required are engaged in agricultural work
  2. Small size of holding
  3. Backward or old technology of production
  4. All of the above
The most appropriate measure of a country’s economic growth is its:
  1. Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
  2. Net Domestic Product (NDP)
  3. Net National Product (NNP)
  4. Per Capital Product (PCP)
At present the share of agriculture in the Gross Domestic Product of India is in the range of:
  1. 10-15 per cent
  2. 16-20 per cent
  3. 21-25 per cent
  4. 26-30 per cent
The Bank rate is the rate at which:
  1. a bank lends to the public
  2. the RBI lends to the public
  3. the RBI gives credit to the commercial banks
  4. the Government of India lends to other countries.
A country’s natural capital includes all of the following except:
  1. Forests
  2. Water
  3. Roads
  4. Minerals
Out of the following groups with which group India's import trade is highest:
  1. OECD
  2. OPEC
  3. Eastern Europe
  4. Developing Countries
On whose coins the name of the last Caliph of Baghdad appeared for the first time?
  1. Qutbuddin Aibak
  2. Iltutmish
  3. Alauddin Khalji
  4. Alauddin Masud Shah
Who had suggested an imposition of "expenditure tax" in India for the first time?
  1. Kalecki
  2. Kaldor
  3. R.J. Chelliah
  4. Gautam Mathur
Which of the following is not a Green House gas?
  1. Carbon dioxide
  2. Methane
  3. Nitrous oxide
  4. Nitrogen
Which of the following Union Territories has the lowest population density?
  1. Daman and Diu
  2. Dadra and Nagar Haveli
  3. Andaman and Nicobar
  4. Puducherry
Which of the following countries does not have a global atmosphere watch station to collect data on world temperatures?
  1. Algeria
  2. Brazii
  3. Kenya
  4. India