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Question:Which Committee first gave the idea of calorie based poverty line food basket measurement?

✅ Correct Answer: Dandekar and Rath Committee

डांडेकर और रथ समिति (1971) भारत की पहली समिति थी जिसने कैलोरी आधारित गरीबी रेखा की अवधारणा प्रस्तुत की।

The Dandekar and Rath Committee (1971) was the first committee in India to introduce the idea of a calorie-based poverty line.
🔹 It defined poverty on the basis of minimum calorie intake required for subsistence:
2250 calories per person per day

🔹 The committee used consumption expenditure to estimate the income level required to meet these calorie norms.
🔹 This approach laid the foundation for future poverty estimation methods in India and influenced later committees like Y.K. Alagh, Tendulkar, and Rangarajan, though their methodologies differed.
Therefore, the correct answer is:
Dandekar and Rath Committee


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