भारत में अपनाई गई ‘गरीब’ की गणना की क्रिया-पद्धति विवादास्पद क्यों है?
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Why is the methodology adopted in India to count the ‘poor’ debatable?
(a) There is some confusion regarding what should constitute the ‘poverty line’. · (b) There are wide diversities in the condition of the rural and urban poor. · (c) There is no uniform global standard for measuring income poverty. · (d) It is based on the proposition of poverty as meagre income or buying capacity.
उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English
Answer: (d) यह गरीबी को अपर्याप्त आय या अपर्याप्त क्रयशक्ति के रूप में प्रस्तुत करने पर आधारित है।
The passage’s criticism of how the poor are counted is that it “exclusively relies on the notion of poverty as insufficient income or insufficient purchasing power”. Of the four options, only this idea comes from the passage; the others bring in reasons it never mentions.
- ✗ (a) The passage calls the definition “extremely narrow”, not confused; no confusion about what the line should be is mentioned.
- ✗ (b) Rural–urban differences are not discussed anywhere in the passage.
- ✗ (c) A global standard is never mentioned; this is outside the passage.
- ✓ (d) The counting rests on “the notion of poverty as insufficient income or insufficient purchasing power” — that is, meagre income or buying capacity.
Remember · When every other option imports facts the passage never states, choose the one that paraphrases the passage’s own words.
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper II (2022, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·