Which of the following statements with regard to the Report of Tendulkar Committee (2009) on poverty estimates is/are correct? 1. The Committee had used an all-India urban poverty line basket as a reference to derive both rural and urban poverty levels. 2. The Committee had anchored the poverty line to the official food calorie norms.

Statement 1 is correct: the Tendulkar Committee (2009) moved away from the earlier separate rural and urban calorie-based poverty lines and instead used the all-India urban poverty line basket (PLB) as the reference, applying it to both rural and urban populations after adjusting for price differentials. Statement 2 is incorrect: the Tendulkar Committee explicitly delinked the poverty line from the official calorie norms (2400 kcal rural / 2100 kcal urban) that had been used since the Alagh Committee. It instead based the poverty line on a broader consumption basket that included food, education, health, clothing, and other essentials.