What is the full form of BPL?

The full form of BPL is Below Poverty Line. The Indian government established this economic benchmark to identify the members of the society with lower incomes who required immediate government support. The government has set an income ceiling. People who make less than the cutoff are classified as BPL. A poll indicates that roughly 30% of people in India fall below the poverty line.

• Except for state-funded education and healthcare, the planning commission task force estimated a minimal expenditure essential to living at Rs. 20 per person in rural communities and Rs. 25 per person in urban regions in 1962.

• The lower BPL level is now defined as having a daily minimum income of Rs. 49.1 or Rs. 56.7, respectively, after the 1970s.

• The experts’ panel divided the aggregate poverty line definition in 1993 into state-level definitions, with the latter defining the poverty limit for each state separately.

• In 2012, the poverty line in rural India was Rs. 972, and in urban India, it was Rs. 1,407. About 29.5% of Indians lived below the poverty line in that year, according to estimates.

• According to the Rangarajan Panel, 454 million people, or 38% of the population, were living in extreme poverty in the country in 2014.

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Second full form of BPL

Another full form of BPL is British Physical Laboratories Group. Electronics and digital devices are produced by the Indian business BPL. Bangalore, India, is home to its headquarters. Its subsidiaries include BPL Display Systems, BPL Securities, and Bharat Energy Ventures. BPL is a well-known brand with a supply network comprising more than 7000 distributors in the consumer-resilient industry.