Understanding How the Minimum Calorie Intake in Rural Areas has been fixed at to determine poverty line in India?
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In 1979, a Planning Commission Task Force, led by Y.K. Alagh, officially established a calorie norm for poverty estimation in India, setting the requirement for rural areas at 2400 calories per capita per day. This metric became the foundation for defining the poverty line, though it was later replaced by a more comprehensive consumption expenditure-based methodology.
