Lok Sabha Question No. 5348 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-04-05
Subject: Status of Poverty Eradication
Ministry: PLANNING
Asked by: Chandrani Murmu

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PLANNING

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5348

TO BE ANSWERED ON 05.04.2023

## STATUS OF POVERTY ERADICATION

## 5348.   MS. CHANDRANI MURMU:

Will the Minister of PLANNING be pleased to state:

- (a) the status of poverty eradication monitored Twenty Point Programme of the Central Government;
- (b) the time by which the poverty levels of the country would go down to minimum, given such aggressive programmes; and
- (c) the number of people who moved above poverty line in Odisha during the last ten years?

## 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 (c) 'Twenty Point Programme (TPP) was launched by the Government of India in the year 1975 and was restructured thrice in 1982, 1986 and 2006. The restructured programme, known as TPP-2006 became  operational  w.e.f  1st  April,  2007.  TPP-2006  has  20  Points  covering  65  items.  (List  is  at Annexure  -1 )  These  65  items  coincide  with  various  programmes  and  schemes  of  the  Central Government which are administered by the Central Nodal Ministries/Departments and by and large are implemented  through  the State Governments/UT  Administrations.  The  Ministry of Statistics  & Programme Implementation has been given the responsibility of monitoring all the 65 items, of which some are reported on quarterly basis, and the others on annual basis based on the progress report received from the Central Nodal Ministries and the State/UT Governments. The achievement under Twenty point Programme - 2006 ( Poverty Eradication ) as per the Progress Report: April-September, 2022 and latest Annual Report  2021- 22 of the Twenty Point Programme  released by M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation is available in the public domain and can be accessed at https://www.mospi.gov.in/sites/default/files/publication\_reports/Twenty%20Point%20Programme%20 Progress%20Report%20April%202022-September%202022.pdf

andhttps://www.mospi.gov.in/sites/default/files/publication\_reports/TPP\_2021\_2021-22\_1.pdf respectively.

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. According to this Press Note, the number of persons living below poverty line  in  India  has  been  estimated  to  be  27  crore  in  2011-12.  The  State/UT-wise  (including  the  state  of Odisha) details of population living below poverty line in 2011-12 are given at Annexure 2 .

The Government of India has been focusing on inclusive growth as reflected in its commitment to Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas and has taken various steps to uplift the people living below poverty line in the country.  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  aim  at  creating  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), Deen  Dayal Upadhayay - Gramin Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), Rural Self Employment Training  Institutes (RSETIs), National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP), PM Street Vendor's  AtmaNirbhar  Nidhi  (PM  SVANidhi)  Scheme,  Shyama  Prasad   Mukherji  Rurban  Mission (SPMRM), Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojna (PMGKAY), Aspirational Districts Programme, Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maan-Dhan Yojana,  Skill India, Sansad Adarsh  Gram  Yojana,  Pradhan  Mantri  Jan-Dhan  Yojana  (PMJDY),  Pradhan  Mantri  Suraksha  Bima Yojana  (PMSBY),  Pradhan  Mantri  Jeevan  Jyoti  Bima  Yojana,  Atal  Pension  Yojana,  Pradhan  Mantri Mudra Yojana, Stand Up India Scheme, Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana, Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural and Urban), etc.

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) to (c) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5348 FOR 05.04.2023 BY MS. CHANDRANI MURMU: REGARDING  STATUS OF POVERTY ERADICATION

## LIST OF ITEMS COVERED UNDER (TPP) - 2006

| Point No.   | Item No.   | Name of the Points/Items                                                                                                                                          |
|-------------|------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| I.          |            | [Poverty Eradication]                                                                                                                                             |
|             |            | Rural Areas                                                                                                                                                       |
|             | 1.         | Employment generation under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)                                                                  |
|             | 2.         | National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM)                                                                                                                          |
|             | 3.         | Rural Business Hubs in Partnership with Panchayats                                                                                                                |
|             | 4.         | Self Help Groups                                                                                                                                                  |
|             |            | Urban Areas                                                                                                                                                       |
|             | 5.         | Swaran Jayanti Shahari Rojgar Yojana                                                                                                                              |
| II.         |            | (Power to People)                                                                                                                                                 |
|             | 6.         | Local Self Government (Panchayati Raj and Urban Local Bodies)  Activity Mapping for devolution of functions  Budget Flow of Funds  Assignment of Functionaries |
|             | 7.         | Quick and Inexpensive Justice - Gram Nyayalayas and NyayaPanchayats.                                                                                              |
|             | 8.         | District Planning Committees.                                                                                                                                     |
| III.        |            | [Support to Farmers]                                                                                                                                              |
|             | 9.         | Water shed development                                                                                                                                            |
|             | 10.        | Marketing and infrastructural support to farmers                                                                                                                  |
|             | 11.        | Irrigation facilities (including minor and micro irrigation) for agriculture                                                                                      |
|             | 12.        | Credit to farmers                                                                                                                                                 |
|             | 13.        | Distribution of waste land to the landless                                                                                                                        |
| IV.         |            | [Labour Welfare]                                                                                                                                                  |
|             | 14.        | Social Security for Agricultural and Unorganized Labour                                                                                                           |
|             | 15.        | Minimum Wages Enforcement (including Farm Labour)                                                                                                                 |
|             | 16.        | Prevention of Child Labour                                                                                                                                        |
|             | 17.        | Welfare of Women Labour                                                                                                                                           |
| V.          |            | [Food Security ]                                                                                                                                                  |

|     | 18.   | Food Security : i. Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS)/ National Food Security Act (NFSA) ii. Antyodaya Anna Yojana,   |
|-----|-------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| VI. |       | [Housing for All]                                                                                                             |
|     | 19    | Rural Housing - Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana - Grameen                                                                         |
|     | 20.   | EWS/LIG Houses in Urban Areas                                                                                                 |

| Point No.   | Item No.   | Name of the Points/Items                                                                            |
|-------------|------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| VII.        |            | [Clean Drinking Water]                                                                              |
|             | 21.        | Rural Areas. - National Rural Drinking Water Programme-( NRDWP)                                     |
|             | 22.        | Urban Areas: - Accelerated Urban Water Supply Programme                                             |
| VIII.       |            | [Health for All]                                                                                    |
|             | 23.        | Control and prevention of major diseases: (a) HIV/AIDS (b) TB (c) Malaria (d) Leprosy (e) Blindness |
|             | 24.        | National Rural Health Mission                                                                       |
|             | 25.        | Immunisation of Children                                                                            |
|             | 26.        | Sanitation Programme in Rural Areas Urban areas                                                     |
|             | 27.        | Institutional Delivery                                                                              |
|             | 28.        | Prevention of Female Foeticide                                                                      |
|             | 29.        | Supplementary nutrition for Mothers and Children                                                    |
|             | 30.        | Two Child norms                                                                                     |
| IX.         |            | [Education for All]                                                                                 |
|             | 31.        | Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan - Compulsory Elementary Education                                              |
|             | 32.        | Mid-Day Meal Scheme                                                                                 |
| X.          |            | [Welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Minorities and OBCs]                                |
|             | 33.        | SC Families assisted a. SC families assisted under SCA to SCSP &NSFDC                               |

|     |     | b. SC students assisted under post matric scholarship                                                      |
|-----|-----|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|     | 34. | Rehabilitation of Scavengers                                                                               |
|     | 35. | ST Families assisted                                                                                       |
|     | 36. | Rights of Forest dwellers - Owners of minor forest produce                                                 |
|     | 37. | Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PTGs)                                                               |
|     | 38. | No alienation of Tribal lands                                                                              |
|     | 39. | Implementation of Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act [PESA]                                     |
|     | 40. | Welfare of minorities                                                                                      |
|     | 41. | Professional education among all minority communities                                                      |
|     | 42. | Reservation of OBCs in  Education  Employment                                                            |
| XI. |     | [Women Welfare]                                                                                            |
|     | 43. | Financial Assistance for Women Welfare                                                                     |
|     | 44. | Improved participation of women in (a) Panchayats (b) Municipalities (c) State Legislatures (d) Parliament |

| Point No.   | Item No.   | Name of the Points/Items                                                                                                                                                  |
|-------------|------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| XII.        |            | [Child Welfare]                                                                                                                                                           |
|             | 45.        | Universalisation of ICDS Scheme                                                                                                                                           |
|             | 46.        | Functional Anganwadis                                                                                                                                                     |
| XIII.       |            | [Youth Development]                                                                                                                                                       |
|             | 47.        | Sports for all in Rural and Urban areas                                                                                                                                   |
|             | 48.        | Rashtriya Sadbhavana Yojana                                                                                                                                               |
|             | 49.        | National Service Scheme (NSS)                                                                                                                                             |
| XIV.        |            | [Improvement of Slums]                                                                                                                                                    |
|             | 50.        | Number of Urban poor families assisted under seven-point charter viz. land tenure, housing at affordable cost, water, sanitation, health, education, and social security. |
| XV.         |            | [Environment Protection and Afforestation]                                                                                                                                |

|        | 51.   | Afforestation a. Area Covered under Plantation on - Public and Forest Lands b. Number of Seedlings planted on -Public and Forest Lands   |
|--------|-------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        | 52.   | Prevention of pollution of Rivers and water bodies                                                                                       |
|        | 53.   | Solid and liquid waste management in  Rural Areas  Urban Areas                                                                         |
| XVI.   |       | [Social Security]                                                                                                                        |
|        | 54.   | Rehabilitation of handicapped and orphans.                                                                                               |
|        | 55.   | Welfare of the aged                                                                                                                      |
| XVII.  |       | [Rural Roads]                                                                                                                            |
|        | 56.   | Rural Roads - PMGSY                                                                                                                      |
| XVIII. |       | [Energization of Rural Area]                                                                                                             |
|        | 57.   | Bio-diesel Production                                                                                                                    |
|        | 58.   | Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana                                                                                                    |
|        | 59.   | Renewable Energy                                                                                                                         |
|        | 60.   | Energising Pump sets                                                                                                                     |
|        | 61.   | Supply of Electricity                                                                                                                    |
|        | 62.   | Supply of Kerosene and LPG                                                                                                               |
| XIX.   |       | [Development of Backward Areas]                                                                                                          |
|        | 63.   | Backward Regions Grants Fund (BRGF )                                                                                                     |
| XX.    |       | [IT enabled e-Governance]                                                                                                                |
|        | 64.   | Central and State Governments                                                                                                            |
|        | 65.   | Panchayats and Municipalities                                                                                                            |

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) to (c) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5348 FOR 05.04.2023 BY MS. CHANDRANI MURMU: REGARDING STATUS OF POVERTY ERADICATION

## 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 Persons | No. of Persons (lakhs) | %age of Persons | No. of Persons (lakhs) | %age of Persons | 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 |
|------|---------------------|--------|---------|---------|--------|---------|---------|
| 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 |

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

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