Lok Sabha Question No. 354 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-07-19
Subject: Upliftment of People Living Below Poverty Line
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: SADASHIV KISAN LOKHANDE

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 354 TO BE ANSWERED ON 19.07.2018

## UPLIFTMENT OF PEOPLE LIVING BELOW POVERTY LINE

## 354. SHRI SADASHIV LOKHANDE:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of people living Below Poverty Line (BPL) at present in the country specially in backward rural regions, State/UT-wise;
- (b) whether the Government has fixed or proposes to fix any target for the upliftment of all the poor people who are living BPL;
- (c) if so, the details thereof along with the target fixed, if any, during the last three years and the current year and the present position with regard to upliftment of these people above poverty line; and
- (d) if not, the reasons therefor?

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

(a): The erstwhile Planning Commission estimated poverty on the basis of monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) as criteria for defining poverty line that separates poor from non-poor.  The  poverty  lines  and  poverty  ratios  for  2011-12  was  computed  following  the Tendulkar methodology. The State wise number of people living below poverty line in rural and urban  areas  during  2011-12  is  given  at Annexure. The  Ministry  of  Rural  Development conducted a combined Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) in 2011 to generate a large number of socio and economic indicators for ranking of households across the country for both rural & urban areas. SECC 2011 provides data on households regarding various aspects of their socio-economic status - housing, land-holding/landlessness, educational status, status of women, differently abled, occupation, possession of assets, SC/ST households, incomes, etc. and captures multi-dimensional aspects of poverty. The Ministry of Rural Development is using SECC 2011 data for selecting beneficiaries for its programmes/schemes.

(b) to (d): With the availability of granular details of Socio-Economic status of households, including  its  deprivation  in  the  SECC-2011,  Ministry  of  Rural  Development  is  using  data  of SECC- 2011 to identify beneficiaries. The programme / scheme interventions are targeted to deal with  the  universe  of  deprivation  /  multi-dimensionality  of  poverty  reported  in  SECC.  For  the programme for Housing for All, total number of eligible beneficiaries identified are 2.96 crore, which form the universe of household with zero, one or two room houses with kuccha walls and kuccha roof, of those households of SECC that reported on deprivation or automatic inclusion criteria.  For  the  DeendayalAntyodayaYojana  -  National  Rural  Livelihood  Mission  (DAYNRLM),  the  targeted  households  are  8.72  crore  out  of  17.9  crore  rural  households  reporting deprivation. Under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), all households seeking manual casual workers are guaranteed 100 days work.

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Annexure Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) of LokSabhaUnstarred Question No. 354 due for answer on 19.07.2018

|        | State                       | Number of persons (Lakhs)   | Number of persons (Lakhs)   | Number of persons (Lakhs)   |
|--------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
| S. No. | State                       | Rural                       | Urban                       | Total                       |
| 1      | Andhra Pradesh              | 61.80                       | 16.98                       | 78.78                       |
| 2      | Arunachal Pradesh           | 4.25                        | 0.66                        | 4.91                        |
| 3      | Assam                       | 92.06                       | 9.21                        | 101.27                      |
| 4      | Bihar                       | 320.40                      | 37.75                       | 358.15                      |
| 5      | Chhattisgarh                | 88.90                       | 15.22                       | 104.11                      |
| 6      | Delhi                       | 0.50                        | 16.46                       | 16.96                       |
| 7      | Goa                         | 0.37                        | 0.38                        | 0.75                        |
| 8      | Gujarat                     | 75.35                       | 26.88                       | 102.23                      |
| 9      | Haryana                     | 19.42                       | 9.41                        | 28.83                       |
| 10     | Himachal Pradesh            | 5.29                        | 0.30                        | 5.59                        |
| 11     | Jammu &Kashmir              | 10.73                       | 2.53                        | 13.27                       |
| 12     | Jharkhand                   | 104.09                      | 20.24                       | 124.33                      |
| 13     | Karnataka                   | 92.80                       | 36.96                       | 129.76                      |
| 14     | Kerala                      | 15.48                       | 8.46                        | 23.95                       |
| 15     | Madhya Pradesh              | 190.95                      | 43.10                       | 234.06                      |
| 16     | Maharashtra                 | 150.56                      | 47.36                       | 197.92                      |
| 17     | Manipur                     | 7.45                        | 2.78                        | 10.22                       |
| 18     | Meghalaya                   | 3.04                        | 0.57                        | 3.61                        |
| 19     | Mizoram                     | 1.91                        | 0.37                        | 2.27                        |
| 20     | Nagaland                    | 2.76                        | 1.00                        | 3.76                        |
| 21     | Odisha                      | 126.14                      | 12.39                       | 138.53                      |
| 22     | Punjab                      | 13.35                       | 9.82                        | 23.18                       |
| 23     | Rajasthan                   | 84.19                       | 18.73                       | 102.92                      |
| 24     | Sikkim                      | 0.45                        | 0.06                        | 0.51                        |
| 25     | Tamil Nadu                  | 59.23                       | 23.40                       | 82.63                       |
| 26     | Tripura                     | 4.49                        | 0.75                        | 5.24                        |
| 27     | Uttarakhand                 | 8.25                        | 3.35                        | 11.60                       |
| 28     | Uttar Pradesh               | 479.35                      | 118.84                      | 598.19                      |
| 29     | West Bengal                 | 141.14                      | 43.83                       | 184.98                      |
| 30     | Puducherry                  | 0.69                        | 0.55                        | 1.24                        |
| 31     | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 0.04                        | 0.00                        | 0.04                        |
| 32     | Chandigarh                  | 0.004                       | 2.34                        | 2.35                        |
| 33     | Dadra &Nagar Haveli         | 1.15                        | 0.28                        | 1.43                        |
| 34     | Daman &Diu                  | 0.00                        | 0.26                        | 0.26                        |
| 35     | Lakshadweep                 | 0.00                        | 0.02                        | 0.02                        |
|        | All India                   | 2166.58                     | 531.25                      | 2697.83                     |