Lok Sabha Question No. 2306 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-12-26
Subject: Survey of BPL Population
Ministry: PLANNING
Asked by: MAULANA BADRUDDIN AJMAL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PLANNING

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 2306 TO BE ANSWERED ON 26.12.2018

## SURVEY OF BPL POPULATION

## 2306. SHRI BADRUDDIN AJMAL:

Will the Minister of PLANNING be pleased to state:

- (a) the  year  in  which  the  latest  survey  in  regard  to  BPL  population  was  conducted  in  the country  and  the  nature  of  shortcomings  found  therein  along  with  the  steps  taken  by  the Government in this regard;
- (b) the number of persons identified as living Below Poverty Line (BPL), State and categorywise with socio-religious bifurcation;
- (c) whether the said survey was supposed to be conducted again after a certain period of time; and
- (d) if so, the time by which the said survey is likely to be conducted?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS & FERTILIZERS

## (RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

(a) to (d) The official poverty estimates are based on Large Sample Surveys on Household Consumer Expenditure carried out by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. These surveys are normally conducted on quinquennial basis. The latest  data  of  Large  Sample  Survey  on  Household  Consumer  Expenditure  has  been  collected  by NSSO in its 68 th round conducted in 2011-12. Based on this data, the erstwhile Planning Commission estimated  poverty  lines  and  poverty  ratio  in  2011-12  following  the  extant  Tendulkar  Committee methodology and released through a Press Note issued on 22 nd July 2013. At present the number of persons living below poverty line in India has been estimated as 27 crore (21.92%) in 2011-12. The estimates of Poverty Ratio among social groups is given at Annexure -I and state-wise number of persons living below poverty line is given at Annexure - II.

## Annexure-I

| Social Groups         | 2011-12 (% of population)   | 2011-12 (% of population)   |
|-----------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
| Social Groups         | Rural                       | Urban                       |
| Scheduled Tribes      | 45.3                        | 24.1                        |
| Scheduled Castes      | 31.5                        | 21.7                        |
| Other Backward Castes | 22.6                        | 15.4                        |
| Others                | 15.5                        | 8.2                         |
| All Population        | 25.7                        | 13.7                        |

## Annexure-II

## Number of persons living below poverty line during  2011-12 (Tendulkar Methodology)

|       |                   | Number of persons (Lakhs)   | Number of persons (Lakhs)   | Number of persons (Lakhs)   |
|-------|-------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
| S.No. | State             | Rural                       | Urban                       | Total                       |
| 1     | Andhra Pradesh    | 61.8                        | 17.0                        | 78.8                        |
| 2     | Arunachal Pradesh | 4.2                         | 0.7                         | 4.9                         |
| 3     | Assam             | 92.1                        | 9.2                         | 101.3                       |
| 4     | Bihar             | 320.4                       | 37.8                        | 358.2                       |
| 5     | Chhattisgarh      | 88.9                        | 15.2                        | 104.1                       |
| 6     | Delhi             | 0.5                         | 16.5                        | 17.0                        |
| 7     | Goa               | 0.4                         | 0.4                         | 0.8                         |
| 8     | Gujarat           | 75.4                        | 26.9                        | 102.2                       |
| 9     | Haryana           | 19.4                        | 9.4                         | 28.8                        |
| 10    | Himachal Pradesh  | 5.3                         | 0.3                         | 5.6                         |
| 11    | Jammu &Kashmir    | 10.7                        | 2.5                         | 13.3                        |
| 12    | Jharkhand         | 104.1                       | 20.2                        | 124.3                       |
| 13    | Karnataka         | 92.8                        | 37.0                        | 129.8                       |
| 14    | Kerala            | 15.5                        | 8.5                         | 23.9                        |
| 15    | Madhya Pradesh    | 191.0                       | 43.1                        | 234.1                       |
| 16    | Maharashtra       | 150.6                       | 47.4                        | 197.9                       |
| 17    | Manipur           | 7.4                         | 2.8                         | 10.2                        |
| 18    | Meghalaya         | 3.0                         | 0.6                         | 3.6                         |
| 19    | Mizoram           | 1.9                         | 0.4                         | 2.3                         |
| 20    | Nagaland          | 2.8                         | 1.0                         | 3.8                         |
| 21    | Odisha            | 126.1                       | 12.4                        | 138.5                       |
| 22    | Punjab            | 13.4                        | 9.8                         | 23.2                        |
| 23    | Rajasthan         | 84.2                        | 18.7                        | 102.9                       |
| 24    | Sikkim            | 0.4                         | 0.1                         | 0.5                         |
| 25    | Tamil Nadu        | 59.2                        | 23.4                        | 82.6                        |
| 26    | Tripura           | 4.5                         | 0.8                         | 5.2                         |
| 27    | Uttarakhand       | 8.2                         | 3.4                         | 11.6                        |
| 28    | Uttar Pradesh     | 479.4                       | 118.8                       | 598.2                       |
| 29    | West Bengal       | 141.1                       | 43.8                        | 185.0                       |
| 30    | Puducherry        | 0.7                         | 0.6                         | 1.2                         |
| 31    | All India         | 2166.6                      | 531.2                       | 2697.8                      |