Which of the following committees was set up in India for identification of BPL families in Urban Areas ?

1. A

   Tendulkar Committee

   (a) Tendulkar Committee. Suresh Tendulkar revised the poverty line methodology (2009), not the urban BPL identification protocol asked here.

2. B

   Saxena Committee

   (b) Saxena Committee. N. C. Saxena (2009) advised rural BPL census criteria, not urban.

3. C

   Lakdawala Committee

   (c) Lakdawala Committee. D. T. Lakdawala (1993) chaired an expert group on poverty estimates, not urban BPL household identification in this sense.

4. D

   Hashim Committee

   (d) Hashim Committee. The S. R. Hashim Committee (Planning Commission) recommended the methodology to identify BPL families in urban areas. That stored name is the official key.

Summary. Official key is (d) Hashim Committee. Urban BPL identification is Hashim; rural BPL census advice is Saxena; Tendulkar and Lakdawala are poverty-line expert groups. Neighbouring names are Planning Commission and the urban deprivation indicators. Honour Hashim.