Urban poverty in India is a spillover of rural poverty.

True

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True

True. To a large extent, urban poverty is a spillover of rural poverty. People tend to migrate from rural areas to urban areas in search of jobs. But, not finding jobs beyond subsistence, they only add to the percentage of BPL population in urban areas.

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