What is the full form of BPL
What is the full form of BPL
BPL: Below Poverty Line
BPL stands for Below Poverty Line. It is an economic benchmark set by the government of India to identify the economically weaker people and households in urgent need of government aid. It refers to a threshold income. The people whose income is below this threshold income are considered poor or below poverty line.
The government launches various schemes to help the BPL section so that their basic needs like food, shelter and clothes could be fulfilled.
Below Poverty Line (BPL) ration cards that were issued to households living below the poverty line. These households received 25-35 kilograms of food grain.
According to a committee led by C Rangarajan (former governor of the Reserve Bank), approximately 30% of India’s total population lived in poverty in 2011-12.
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