What is the full form of BPL?
The BPL full form is Below Poverty Line. The government of India has established this economic threshold in order to identify those in the community with low incomes who require immediate government support. The government has set a maximum income level. Individuals whose income falls below the threshold are classified as BPL. According to a poll, between 25 and 30 percent of India’s population is BPL.
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History of BPL (Below Poverty Line)
- The task force of the planning commission proposed, in 1962, a minimal amount of expenditure essential to live of Rs. 20 per person in rural communities and Rs. 25 per person in urban communities, excluding government-funded education and healthcare.
- After the 1970s, the criteria for the lower BPL level were amended to require a minimum daily income of Rs 49.1 in rural regions and Rs 56.7 in urban areas.
- In 1993, the committee of experts divided the definition of the aggregate poverty line into the definition of the poverty line at the state level, with each state’s poverty threshold stated individually.
- In 2012, the poverty line hit Rs. 972 in rural India and Rs. 1,402 in urban India. It was estimated that 29.5% of the Indian population lived below the poverty line in that year.
- In 2014, the Rangarajan Panel estimated that 38 percent of the country’s population, or over 454 million people, lived in extreme poverty.
Criteria defining BPL
- House type
- Infant status
- Consumer durables
- Food Security
- Literacy status
- Landholding
- Sanitation
- Clothes, etc.
Another BPL full form is the British Physical Laboratories Group. BPL is an Indian electronics manufacturer that produces healthcare-related gadgets and equipment. The company’s headquarters are located in Bangalore, India. Its subsidiaries include Bharat Energy Ventures, BPL Display Systems, and BPL Securities. BPL is a trusted brand in the consumer-resilient industry, and its distribution network consists of over 7000 distributors.
History of BPL (British Physical Laboratories Group)
- In 1963, BPL was created in Palakkad, Kerala. As a single-product company, it has been recognized for producing panel monitors with great precision for security systems.
- In 1967, it began manufacturing electrocardiographs in partnership with Japan’s Fukuda Electric Co.
- In 1967, the company began manufacturing Power Line Carrier communications systems.
- In 1975, the company formed its marketing and sales section.
- In 1982, it entered the consumer electronics business.
- In 1984, the company began manufacturing telephone equipment including EPABX.
- In 1985, it accepted a license to manufacture VCRs in partnership with Sanyo.
- In 1994, the company began manufacturing kitchen appliances.
- Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra debuted their mobile telephone services in 1995.
- In 2000, it formed a strategic alliance with a Slovenian engineering firm in order to begin offshore production in Europe.
- In 2001, BPL Telecom established state-of-the-art design and analysis facilities for software and system solutions.
- In 2005, it formed a joint venture with Sanyo for the manufacturing and marketing of CTV.
Famous products
- Home Theatre
- Landline Phones
- Televisions
- Energy communications equipment
- Medical equipment
- Household products such as home UPS, cooking hubs, home lighting, gag tables, etc.
