What is BPL?

Question

Understand what BPL means, its full form, eligibility criteria, government schemes, benefits, poverty classification, and social welfare programs.

Pallavi Rajput · Accepted Answer

BPL refers to Below Poverty Line. In BPL government has placed a limit on income. According, to that 30 percent of the population of India is BPL. It was found in Palakkad, Kerala, in 1963. Students of Sociology or Economics background must have studied this particular term. In the Indian society, the people are economically weaker, and do not have enough earnings, to fulfill their needs of their children. Government provides provisions, which differ from region to region and country to country.