The Tendulkar Committee, whose report was widely used for estimating poverty in India, based its poverty line primarily on which of the following?

The Tendulkar Committee (2009) moved away from the earlier calorie-based poverty line and instead based its poverty line on Monthly Per Capita Consumption Expenditure (MPCE), incorporating private expenditure on health and education along with food and non-food items. the Tendulkar Committee (2009) set the national poverty line at roughly ₹816 (rural) and ₹1,000 (urban) monthly per capita expenditure at 2011-12 prices. The later Rangarajan Committee (2014) proposed a revised, higher poverty line, though it was never officially adopted by the government.