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Choose the correct statement regarding poverty trends in India based on NCERT standards.
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- 1The official monetary poverty line fixed per capita for rural areas is higher than that for urban areas.
- 2Nearly half of India's poor currently live in urban metropolitan areas.
- 3Rural poverty has declined at a much faster rate than urban poverty throughout the post-independence era.
- 4The total number of poor people in India in the 1990s was roughly equivalent to India's total population at independence in 1947.✓
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The total number of poor people in India in the 1990s was roughly equivalent to India's total population at independence in 1947.
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