Lok Sabha Question No. 85 (STARRED), answered on 2023-02-08
Subject: People Living below Poverty Line
Ministry: PLANNING
Asked by: Omprakash Bhupalsinh alias Pawan Rajenimbalkar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PLANNING

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION No. 85

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.02.2023

## PEOPLE LIVING BELOW POVERTY LINE

## †*85.   SHRI OMPRAKASH BHUPALSINH ALLIAS PAWAN RAJENIMBALKAR:

Will the Minister of PLANNING be pleased to state:

- (a) the  State/UT-wise  details  of  people  living  below  poverty  line  in  the  country including Maharashtra;
- (b) the details of population living below poverty line during the last ten years and the criteria fixed to assess it;
- (c) the date on which the latest official estimate of the population below the poverty line has been made;
- (d) whether the population  below poverty line is increasing in the country,  if so, the details thereof and if not, the data to supplement it;
- (e) the steps taken by the Government for eradication of poverty and upliftment of poor people in the country; and
- (f) whether consumer expenditure survey to be conducted in the year 2022-23 is likely to be started and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION; MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS

## (RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

(a). to (f):  A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (f)  OF  LOK  SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 85* REGARDING 'PEOPLE LIVING  BELOW POVERTY LINE' RAISED BY SHRI OMPRAKASH BHUPALSINH ALLIAS PAWAN RAJENIMBALKAR

(a)  to  (d)  : The  erstwhile  Planning  Commission  estimated  poverty  line  and  poverty  ratio  on  the basis of Large Sample Surveys on Household Consumer Expenditure carried out by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. The last data of Large Sample Survey on Household Consumer Expenditure published by NSSO was for the 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.  The  poverty line has been  defined  on  the  basis  of  Monthly  Per  Capita  Consumption  Expenditure  (MPCE)  as  the criterion. For the year 2011-12, the poverty line at all India level has been estimated as Monthly Per-capita  Consumption  Expenditure  of  Rs.  816  for  rural  areas  and  Rs.  1000  for  urban  areas. According to the Press Note, the number of persons living below poverty line in India has been estimated as 27 crore in 2011-12. The State/UT-wise details of population living below poverty line in 2011-12 including  the state of Maharashtra are given at Annexure-I and state-wise poverty line is given at Annexure-II .

(e)    Government  of  India  is  implementing  several  schemes,  both  Central  sector  and  Centrally Sponsored Schemes, for reducing the poverty in the country. Some of the schemes aim to directly benefit  the  citizens  through  Direct  Benefit  transfer  of  resources/  money  while  others  intend  to create  enabling  infrastructural  provisions.    These  include  Mahatma  Gandhi    National  Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (Mahatma Gandhi NREGS), Pradhan Mantri  Awaas Yojana Gramin  (PMAY-G),  Pradhan  Mantri  Gram  Sadak  Yojana  (PMGSY),    Deendayal  Antyodaya Yojana  -  National  Rural  Livelihoods  Mission  (DAY-NRLM),  Deendayal  Antyodaya  YojanaNational  Urban  Livelihoods  Mission  (DAY-NULM),  Deen    Dayal  Upadhayay  -  Gramin Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), Rural Self Employment Training  Institutes (RSETIs), National Social  Assistance  Programme (NSAP), Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojna (PMGKAY), Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY),  etc.

(f) Yes Sir, the process to conduct the latest Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) has been initiated by M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation from August, 2022.

## Annexure-1

STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (d)  OF  LOK  SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 85* REGARDING 'PEOPLE LIVING  BELOW POVERTY LINE' RAISED BY SHRI OMPRAKASH BHUPALSINH ALLIAS PAWAN RAJENIMBALKAR

## Number and Percentage of Population below poverty line by states - 2011-12 (Tendulkar Methodology)

| S.No .   |                          | Rural            | Rural                  | Urban            | Urban                   | Total            | Total                  |
|----------|--------------------------|------------------|------------------------|------------------|-------------------------|------------------|------------------------|
| S.No .   | States                   | %age of Person s | No. of Persons (lakhs) | %age of Person s | No. of Person s (lakhs) | %age of Person s | No. of Persons (lakhs) |
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh           | 10.96            | 61.80                  | 5.81             | 16.98                   | 9.20             | 78.78                  |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh        | 38.93            | 4.25                   | 20.33            | 0.66                    | 34.67            | 4.91                   |
| 3        | Assam                    | 33.89            | 92.06                  | 20.49            | 9.21                    | 31.98            | 101.27                 |
| 4        | Bihar                    | 34.06            | 320.40                 | 31.23            | 37.75                   | 33.74            | 358.15                 |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh             | 44.61            | 88.90                  | 24.75            | 15.22                   | 39.93            | 104.11                 |
| 6        | Delhi                    | 12.92            | 0.50                   | 9.84             | 16.46                   | 9.91             | 16.96                  |
| 7        | Goa                      | 6.81             | 0.37                   | 4.09             | 0.38                    | 5.09             | 0.75                   |
| 8        | Gujarat                  | 21.54            | 75.35                  | 10.14            | 26.88                   | 16.63            | 102.23                 |
| 9        | Haryana                  | 11.64            | 19.42                  | 10.28            | 9.41                    | 11.16            | 28.83                  |
| 10       | Himachal Pradesh         | 8.48             | 5.29                   | 4.33             | 0.30                    | 8.06             | 5.59                   |
| 11       | Jammu &Kashmir           | 11.54            | 10.73                  | 7.20             | 2.53                    | 10.35            | 13.27                  |
| 12       | Jharkhand                | 40.84            | 104.09                 | 24.83            | 20.24                   | 36.96            | 124.33                 |
| 13       | Karnataka                | 24.53            | 92.80                  | 15.25            | 36.96                   | 20.91            | 129.76                 |
| 14       | Kerala                   | 9.14             | 15.48                  | 4.97             | 8.46                    | 7.05             | 23.95                  |
| 15       | Madhya Pradesh           | 35.74            | 190.95                 | 21.00            | 43.10                   | 31.65            | 234.06                 |
| 16       | Maharashtra              | 24.22            | 150.56                 | 9.12             | 47.36                   | 17.35            | 197.92                 |
| 17       | Manipur                  | 38.80            | 7.45                   | 32.59            | 2.78                    | 36.89            | 10.22                  |
| 18       | Meghalaya                | 12.53            | 3.04                   | 9.26             | 0.57                    | 11.87            | 3.61                   |
| 19       | Mizoram                  | 35.43            | 1.91                   | 6.36             | 0.37                    | 20.40            | 2.27                   |
| 20       | Nagaland                 | 19.93            | 2.76                   | 16.48            | 1.00                    | 18.88            | 3.76                   |
| 21       | Odisha                   | 35.69            | 126.14                 | 17.29            | 12.39                   | 32.59            | 138.53                 |
| 22       | Punjab                   | 7.66             | 13.35                  | 9.24             | 9.82                    | 8.26             | 23.18                  |
| 23       | Rajasthan                | 16.05            | 84.19                  | 10.69            | 18.73                   | 14.71            | 102.92                 |
| 24       | Sikkim                   | 9.85             | 0.45                   | 3.66             | 0.06                    | 8.19             | 0.51                   |
| 25       | Tamil Nadu               | 15.83            | 59.23                  | 6.54             | 23.40                   | 11.28            | 82.63                  |
| 26       | Tripura                  | 16.53            | 4.49                   | 7.42             | 0.75                    | 14.05            | 5.24                   |
| 27       | Uttarakhand              | 11.62            | 8.25                   | 10.48            | 3.35                    | 11.26            | 11.60                  |
| 28       | Uttar Pradesh            | 30.40            | 479.35                 | 26.06            | 118.84                  | 29.43            | 598.19                 |
| 29       | West Bengal              | 22.52            | 141.14                 | 14.66            | 43.83                   | 19.98            | 184.98                 |
| 30       | Puducherry               | 17.06            | 0.69                   | 6.30             | 0.55                    | 9.69             | 1.24                   |
| 31       | Andaman &Nicobar Islands | 1.57             | 0.04                   | 0.00             | 0.00                    | 1.00             | 0.04                   |
| 32       | Chandigarh               | 1.64             | 0.004                  | 22.31            | 2.34                    | 21.81            | 2.35                   |

Notes:  1. Population as on 1st March 2012 has been used for estimating number of persons below poverty line. (2011 Census population extrapolated)

| 33   | Dadra &Nagar Haveli   |   62.59 |    1.15 |   15.38 |   0.28 |   39.31 |    1.43 |
|------|-----------------------|---------|---------|---------|--------|---------|---------|
| 34   | Daman &Diu            |     0   |    0    |   12.62 |   0.26 |    9.86 |    0.26 |
| 35   | Lakshadweep           |     0   |    0    |    3.44 |   0.02 |    2.77 |    0.02 |
|      | All India             |    25.7 | 2166.58 |   13.7  | 531.25 |   21.92 | 2697.83 |

2. Poverty line of Tamil Nadu has been used for Andaman and Nicobar Island.
3.  Urban  Poverty  Line  of  Punjab  has  been  used  for  both  rural  and  urban  areas  of Chandigarh.
4. Poverty Line of Maharashtra has been used for Dadra & Nagar Haveli.
5. Poverty line of Goa has been used for Daman & Diu.
6. Poverty Line of Kerala has been used for Lakshadweep.

Annexure-II STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (d)  OF  LOK  SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 85* REGARDING 'PEOPLE LIVING  BELOW POVERTY LINE' RAISED BY SHRI OMPRAKASH BHUPALSINH ALLIAS PAWAN RAJENIMBALKAR

## Poverty line for the period 2011-12 (Tendulkar Methodology)

|       | State             | Poverty Line (Rs)   | Poverty Line (Rs)   |
|-------|-------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
| S.No. |                   | Rural               | Urban               |
| 1     | Andhra Pradesh    | 860                 | 1009                |
| 2     | Arunachal Pradesh | 930                 | 1060                |
| 3     | Assam             | 828                 | 1008                |
| 4     | Bihar             | 778                 | 923                 |
| 5     | Chhattisgarh      | 738                 | 849                 |
| 6     | Delhi             | 1145                | 1134                |
| 7     | Goa               | 1090                | 1134                |
| 8     | Gujarat           | 932                 | 1152                |
| 9     | Haryana           | 1015                | 1169                |
| 10    | Himachal Pradesh  | 913                 | 1064                |
| 11    | Jammu &Kashmir    | 891                 | 988                 |
| 12    | Jharkhand         | 748                 | 974                 |
| 13    | Karnataka         | 902                 | 1089                |
| 14    | Kerala            | 1018                | 987                 |
| 15    | Madhya Pradesh    | 771                 | 897                 |
| 16    | Maharashtra       | 967                 | 1126                |
| 17    | Manipur           | 1118                | 1170                |
| 18    | Meghalaya         | 888                 | 1154                |
| 19    | Mizoram           | 1066                | 1155                |
| 20    | Nagaland          | 1270                | 1302                |
| 21    | Odisha            | 695                 | 861                 |
| 22    | Punjab            | 1054                | 1155                |
| 23    | Rajasthan         | 905                 | 1002                |
| 24    | Sikkim            | 930                 | 1226                |
| 25    | Tamil Nadu        | 880                 | 937                 |
| 26    | Tripura           | 798                 | 920                 |
| 27    | Uttarakhand       | 880                 | 1082                |
| 28    | Uttar Pradesh     | 768                 | 941                 |
| 29    | West Bengal       | 783                 | 981                 |
| 30    | Puducherry        | 1301                | 1309                |
| 31    | All India         | 816                 | 1000                |

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