Poverty test - 5

Below Poverty Line is an economic benchmark used by the government of India to indicate economic disadvantage and to identify individuals and households in need of government assistance and aid. It is determined using various parameters which vary from state to state and within states. The present criteria are based on a survey conducted in 2002. Poverty line solely depends on the per capital income in India rather than level of prices.

When the number of poor is estimated as the proportion of people below the poverty line, it is known as 'head count ratio'.

The SGSY(Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana) aims at providing self employment to villagers through the establishment of self help groups. Activity clusters are established based on the aptitude and skill of the people which are nurtured to their maximum potential. Funds are provided by NGO's, banks and financial institutions.

Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) is an initiative launched by the Government of India to provide sustainable income to poorest of the poor people living in rural & urban areas of the country.

Public distribution system (PDS) is an Indian food security system. Established by the  Government of India under Ministry of Consumer affairs. Food and  and are managed jointly by state government of India.  it distributes subsidized food and non-food items to India's poor. This scheme was launched in India on June 1947. Major commodities distributed include staple food grains, such as wheat rise and kerosene through a network of fair price shops (also known as ration shops) established in several states across the country.

 It encompasses many other elements such as equitable distribution of the fruits of economic growth, elimination of poverty, maintenance of reasonable price stability, participation of all sections of the society in the growth process, and improvements in indicators of human development, particularly health and education.

In the present era of social and political awakening, it has become a major plank of political policy that inequalities of incomes should be reduced, if not eliminated. India also has decided to set up a ‘socialistic pattern of society’. With this end in view, the government strives to prevent the concentration of wealth and income in a few hands.

Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana was launched in the year 2000-2001 in all the States and Union Territories of India, in order to achieve the objective of sustainable human development in the village level.