Lok Sabha Question No. 3857 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-08-09
Subject: Identification of BPL
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: RAVINDRA KUSHAWAHA, SUKHBIR SINGH JAUNPURIA, HARISH DWIVEDI, RAJU ALIAS DEVAPPA ANNA SHETTI

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3857 TO BE ANSWERED ON 09.08.2018

## IDENTIFICATION OF BPL

## 3857.   SHRI RAVINDER KUSHAWAHA: SHRI SUKHBIR SINGH JAUNAPURIA: SHRI HARISH CHANDRA ALIAS HARISH DWIVEDI: SHRI RAJU SHETTY:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  fixed  any  criterion  to  identify  the  people  living  Below Poverty Line (BPL) and if so, the details thereof along with the definition of poverty line for availing benefits under welfare schemes;
- (b) whether the Government has set up or proposes to set up any mechanism involving nonpolitical persons/ organisations for this purpose in each State/ city and if so, the steps taken to provide its benefit to all the persons;
- (c) whether any survey has been conducted to ascertain the number of BPL families in the country;
- (d) if  so,  the  details  and  the  outcome  thereof  indicating  the  number  of  BPL  families, State/UT-wise;
- (e) the date when the last survey was conducted in this regard; and
- (f) whether any targets have been fixed regarding upliftment of BPL people above poverty line and if so, the details thereof and the achievements made therein?

## ANSWER

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

(a) to (f): The Ministry of Rural Development provided technical and financial support to States/Union Territories for conducting combined  Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) in 2011 to rank rural households on identified socio economic parameters. SECC 2011 (Rural) provides  data  on  households  regarding  various  aspects  of  their  Socio  Economic  status  -viz housing,  landholding  /  landlessness  ,  educational  status,  status  of  women,  differently  abled, occupation,  position  of  assets,  SC/ST  households  ,  incomes,  etc.  SECC-2011  (Rural)  data captures respondent based disclosures on socio -economic status of 17.97 crore rural households which has allowed automatic exclusion of 07.07 crore (39.34 %) of households as not poor on the basis of 13 parameters, automatic inclusion of 0.16 crore (0.89 %) households as  poorest  of  the  poor  on  the  basis  of  5  parameters  and  grading  of  deprivation  of  8.73  crore (48.58%) of rural households on the basis of seven parameters. Statewise details are placed at Annexure.

Beneficiaries  under  Programmes  /Schemes  of  the  Government  are  selected  on  the  basis  of system generated priority list as per the criteria of the selection of beneficiaries in Programme/Schemes.  The  list  is  verified  by  ground  trothing  in  Gram  Sabha.  A  system  of claims/objections on system generated list has been instituted by respective State Governments/UT Administrations for verification by District Authorities to obviate exclusion and  inclusion  errors.  The  Validation  of  eligibility    and  beneficiary  is  also  conducted,  in whichever Programme /Scheme feasible, by IT enabled instruments including geo-tagging, date and time stamping, Aadhaar , mobile, bank account etc.

## Annexure

Annexure referred  to  in  part (a) to (f) of the reply  to Lok  Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3857  to be answered on 09.08.2018.

| Sl.No.   | States/UTs.               |   Total No. of Households |   No. of Households with at least one Exclusion |   Total No. of Households for Inclusion |   Total no. of Households with Deprivation. |
|----------|---------------------------|---------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| 1        | JAMMU& KASHMIR            |                   1601606 |                                          761875 |                                  839731 |                                      586345 |
| 2        | HIMACHAL PRADESH          |                   1263756 |                                          840852 |                                  422904 |                                      259855 |
| 3        | PUNJAB                    |                   3269467 |                                         2438567 |                                  830900 |                                      778245 |
| 4        | HARYANA                   |                   2969509 |                                         1779954 |                                 1189555 |                                      997129 |
| 5        | BIHAR                     |                  17829066 |                                         4793001 |                                13036065 |                                    10876054 |
| 6        | WEST BENGAL               |                  15756750 |                                         3302481 |                                12454269 |                                    10056266 |
| 7        | JHARKHAND                 |                   5044234 |                                         1566811 |                                 3477423 |                                     2694061 |
| 8        | ODISHA                    |                   8677551 |                                         1628403 |                                 7049148 |                                     5730339 |
| 9        | RAJASTHAN                 |                  10223073 |                                         4069999 |                                 6153074 |                                     5165212 |
| 10       | GUJARAT                   |                   6920473 |                                         3236193 |                                 3684280 |                                     2967972 |
| 11       | MAHARASHTRA               |                  13841960 |                                         5440356 |                                 8401604 |                                     6064157 |
| 12       | GOA                       |                    220731 |                                          185010 |                                   35721 |                                       23816 |
| 13       | ANDHRA PRADESH            |                   9344180 |                                         3595077 |                                 5749103 |                                     4822104 |
| 14       | KARNATAKA                 |                   8048664 |                                         4022702 |                                 4025962 |                                     2836539 |
| 15       | KERALA                    |                   6319215 |                                         4388457 |                                 1930758 |                                     1469167 |
| 16       | TAMILNADU                 |                  10088119 |                                         4657981 |                                 5430138 |                                     4704939 |
| 17       | TELANGANA                 |                   5643739 |                                         3143322 |                                 2500417 |                                     2136159 |
| 18       | UTTARAKHAND               |                   1479742 |                                          823330 |                                  656412 |                                      429888 |
| 19       | UTTAR PRADESH             |                  26015544 |                                        12466853 |                                13548691 |                                    10381289 |
| 20       | CHHATTISGARH              |                   4540999 |                                          819609 |                                 3721390 |                                     3179327 |
| 21       | MADHYA PRADESH            |                  11288946 |                                         3301696 |                                 7987250 |                                     6748026 |
| 22       | SIKKIM                    |                     88723 |                                           39442 |                                   49281 |                                       33480 |
| 23       | ARUNACHAL PRADESH         |                    201842 |                                          118987 |                                   82855 |                                       72937 |
| 24       | NAGALAND                  |                    284310 |                                           97323 |                                  186987 |                                      182441 |
| 25       | MANIPUR                   |                    448163 |                                          147003 |                                  301160 |                                      236653 |
| 26       | MIZORAM                   |                    111626 |                                           44437 |                                   67189 |                                       66499 |
| 27       | TRIPURA                   |                    697062 |                                          165435 |                                  531627 |                                      361664 |
| 28       | MEGHALAYA                 |                    485897 |                                          151711 |                                  334186 |                                      327506 |
| 29       | ASSAM                     |                   5743835 |                                         1689138 |                                 4054697 |                                     2892859 |
| 30       | CHANDIGARH                |                     15657 |                                            9250 |                                    6407 |                                        3925 |
| 31       | NCT OF DELHI              |                   1051097 |                                          881667 |                                  169430 |                                       89744 |
| 32       | DAMAN AND DIU             |                     31795 |                                           16707 |                                   15088 |                                        6313 |
| 33       | DADRA& NAGAR HAVELI       |                     45352 |                                           15780 |                                   29572 |                                       25378 |
| 34       | LAKSHADWEEP               |                     10929 |                                            9410 |                                    1519 |                                        1455 |
| 35       | PUDUCHERRY                |                    115249 |                                           65854 |                                   49395 |                                       40336 |
| 36       | ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS |                     68481 |                                           39354 |                                   29127 |                                       15976 |
|          |                           |                 179787342 |                                        70754027 |                               109033315 |                                    87264055 |