Explain the estimates of poverty presented by Suresh Tendulkar.

The report of the Suresh Tendulkar committee on the estimation of poverty in India is bound to connect academics and activists from all sides of the ideological separate in the days to come. The estimate of poverty put forth by the committee is 37.2% for all of India (with 41.8% for rural areas and 25.7% for urban areas). The Tendulkar committee has discarded the calorie-anchored estimates of poverty. All preceding estimates of poverty in India had used the calorie consumption norm of 2,400 calories per day per capita for rural areas and 2,100 calories for urban areas. Data collected by the National Sample Survey (NSS) on actual consumption would then be used, among other things, to correlate the monthly per capita expenditure that was required to meet these calorie norms.

On the basis of Suresh tendulkar estimates 21.92% of the population in India is poor. That is it states that 27 crore people are living below the poverty line.