Give two reasons for Bihar's 43% people living below poverty line.

Poverty measurement is an unsettled issue, both conceptually and methodologically. Since poverty is a process as well as an outcome, many come out of it while others may be falling into it. The net effect of these two parallel processes is a proportion commonly identified as the 'head count ratio', but these ratios hide the fundamental dynamism that characterises poverty in practice. the most recent poverty re-estimates by an expert group has also missed the crucial dynamism. In a study conducted on 13,000 households which represented the entire country in 1993-94 and again in 2004-05, it was found that in the ten-year period 18.2% rural population moved out of poverty whereas another 22.1% fell into it over this period. This net increase of about four percentage points was seen to have a considerable variation across states and regions. Which of the following is a conclusion which can be drawn from facts stated in the above paragraph? 1) Accurate estimates of number of people living below poverty line in India is possible to be made. 2) Many expert groups in India are not interested to measure poverty objectively. 3) Process of poverty measurement needs to take into account various factors to tractors to tackle its dynamic nature. 4) Govt of India has a mechanism to measure level of poverty effectively and accurately. 5) None of these

Name the states with lowest & highest percentage of people below poverty line.

Name the two states of India which have less than five per cent of the population below poverty line.

DIRECTIONS: in the following question, a part of sentence is bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is required, choose “No Improvement” option. More than 60% of India's population live under the poverty line.