Q. The poorest state with 39.9% people living below poverty line is:

A
Jharkand
B
Chhattisgarh
C
Bihar
D
Assam
Solution:

The poverty line (implict) at all-India level is worked out from the expenditure class-wise distribution of persons (based on URPconsumption I.e.consumtion collected from 30 day recall period for all items) and the poverty ratio at All-India level. The poverty ratio at all is obtained as the weighted average of the state-wise poverty ratio.
As per new report Chhattisgarh, 39.9 percent of people live below poverty.

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