Lok Sabha Question No. 3118 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-08-03
Subject: List of BPL Families
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: PRATAPRAO GANPATRAO JADHAV

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3118

TO BE ANSWERED ON 03.08 .2017

## LIST OF BPL FAMILIES

## 3118. SHRI PRATAPRAO JADHAV:

W ill the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of Below Poverty Line (BPL) families in the country, State/UTwise incl Maharashtra;
- (b) the criteria for identifying BPL families;
- (c) whetherthe  Government  is  aware  that  such  families,  which  are  not  eligible,  a largely included in the list of BPL families;
- (d) if so, the details thereof, State/UTwise; and
- (e) the measures taken/being taken to delist the non - entitled families from t he list of BPL families as well as to include those genuinely entitled to be included therein?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT ( SHRI RAM KRIPAL YADAV )

( a) to  (d):The Ministry of Rural Development provided financial and technical suppor the States/UTs for conducting BPL Census of 1992, 1997 and 2002 to identify  poor  hou in the rural areas who could be targeted under its development programm s. The BPL Census of  2002  was conducted with the methodology of score based ranking of rural househo which 13 socio - economic indicators/parameters/criteria were used on the recommendation o Expert Group constituted by the Ministry of Rural Development. These 13 indicators were (i) size  of  land  holding,  (ii)  type  of  houses,  (iii)  clothing  (iv)  food  security  (v) ownership of consumer durables (vii) literacy status (viii) Status of household labou means of livelihoo d (x) Status of children (xi) indebtedness (xii) migration and (xiii) p of assistance. For each of these thirteen indicators, the households were awarded score -point scale from 0 - 4.  The  scores were inversely related to the poverty and d eprivation of the household. A low score indicate a higher level of poverty and deprivation and vice - versa. For each household, the scores from  these 13 indicators were summed up to get aggregate the household. The aggregate score of a household could range from a minimum of zero to a maximum of 52. The households were arranged in ascending order to get the BPL list.

Grievances/representations were received ,including through States/UTs ,that some ineligible families  have  been  included  in  t he  BPL  List  2002.  Following  the  direction  of  the  Hon'ble Supreme  Court  of  India  in  W.P.  No.196  of  2001,  the  Ministry  of  Rural  Development  i instruction  to  all  the  States/UTs  to  make  a  provision  allowing  new  names  to  be  ad ineligible names to be deleted from the BPL list during the period of validity of the BPL statement showing rural BPL families identified by the States/UTs, including Maharas per the BPL Census 2002 is at Annexure.

(e): The  Ministry  of  Rural  Development  got  conducted  through  the  States/UTs  the  S Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC 2011) across the country to collect informatio socio and economic status of rural households to allow ranking of households based heir socio economic status. Ranking of Households is made through a three - step process involving 13(thirteen)  Automatic  Exclusion  parameters  for  identifying  not - poor  households,  5  (five) Automatic  Inclusion parameters for identifying poorest of the poor households and 7 (seven) Deprivation Criteria for identifying poor households.

The SECC 2011 data is being used to select beneficiaries for several rural deve programmes of  this  Ministry  using  the  criteria  of  Automatically  Included  househol households  reporting  on  1 - 7  deprivation  in  the  SECC - 2011  in  each  Panchayat  as  per  the selection criteria and objectives of the programmes/schemes.

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## Annexure referred to part (a) to (d) in reply to Lok  Sabha Unstarred Question No.3118  to be answered on 03.08.2017

No. of Rural BPL families identified by the States/UTs under BPL Census, 2002

| Sl. No.   | States/UTs        | No. of BPL families identified (in lakhs)   |
|-----------|-------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    | 29.893                                      |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh | 0.830                                       |
| 3         | Assam             | 18.728                                      |
| 4         | Bihar             | 113.410                                     |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh      | 17.892                                      |
| 6         | Delhi             | RD Programmes are not implemented           |
| 7         | Goa               | 0.071                                       |
| 8         | Gujarat           | 14.512                                      |
| 9         | Haryana           | 8.583                                       |
| 10        | H.P.              | 2.823                                       |
| 11        | J&K               | 6.179                                       |
| 12        | Jharkhand         | 25.480                                      |
| 13        | Karnataka         | 18.306**                                    |
| 14        | Kerala            | Not Available                               |
| 15        | Madhya Pradesh    | 54.684**                                    |
| 16        | Maharashtra       | 45.023**                                    |
| 17        | Manipur           | 1.693                                       |
| 18        | Meghalaya         | 2.052                                       |
| 19        | Mizoram           | 0.395**                                     |
| 20        | Nagaland          | 1.558                                       |
| 21        | Orissa            | Not Available                               |
| 22        | Punjab            | 3.445                                       |
| 23        | Rajasthan         | 17.362                                      |
| 24        | Sikkim            | Not Available                               |
| 25        | Tamil Nadu        | 34.848                                      |
| 26        | Tripura           | Not Available                               |
| 27        | Uttar Pradesh     | 100.271                                     |
| 28        | Uttarakhand       | 6.211**                                     |
| 29        | West Bengal       | 68.005**                                    |
| 30        | A&NIsland*        | 0.107                                       |
| 31        | Chandigarh        | RD Programmes are not implemented           |
| 32        | D&NHaveli         | 0.160                                       |
| 33        | Daman &Diu        | 0.005                                       |
| 34        | Lakshadweep       | Not Available                               |
| 35        | Puducherry        | Not Available                               |
| Total     | Total             | 592.526                                     |