 To satisfy the food requirement, the Task Force estimated that a consumer spending in 1973–74 of Rs.49.09 per person per month in rural areas and Rs.56.64 in urban areas was appropriate measure to estimate its poverty line.Poverty remained stubbornly high in India through the 1970s and 1980s.It created slogans such as "Garibi Hatao" (meaning eliminate poverty) for political campaigns, during elections in early 1970s through the 1980s.