Beyond the BPL

The Below Poverty Line (BPL) designation is becoming the social sector equivalent of a credit rating or a BEE star award: a convenient “seal of approval” that marks households for the PDS, IAY, TSC, NSAP, SGSY and myriad other state and national programmes. It seems likely to only gain more weight as a designation as we enter a lean fiscal era with calls for more targeting.

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