Lok Sabha Question No. 1558 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-02-10
Subject: Assessment of BPL/APL Households
Ministry: PLANNING
Asked by: Harsimrat Kaur Badal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PLANNING

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1558 TO BE ANSWERED ON 10.02.2021

## ASSESSMENT OF BPL/APL HOUSEHOLDS

## 1558. SHRIMATI HARSIMRAT KAUR BADAL:

Will the Minister of PLANNING be pleased to state:

- (a) criteria for assessment of Below Poverty Line households in the country;
- (b) criteria for assessment of Above Poverty Line households in the country; and
- (c) number of households who are under BPL and APL categories in the country State/districtwise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF STATISTICS & PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

## (RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

- (a) & (b) Erstwhile Planning Commission was the nodal agency for estimation of poverty in the country and it used a poverty line based on per capita consumption expenditure as the criterion to  determine  the  persons  living  below  the  poverty  line  (BPL)  in  rural  and  urban  areas.  For determination  of  the  methodology  to  estimate  poverty  line  erstwhile  Planning  Commission constituted Expert Groups from time to time. The most recent Expert Group whose recommendations were accepted by the Government in 2011 was chaired by Prof. Suresh D. Tendulkar.  Based  on  the data  of  Large  Sample  Survey  on  Household  Consumer  Expenditure collected by NSSO in its 68 th round conducted in 2011-12 the poverty lines and poverty ratio were  estimated  following  the  extant  Tendulkar  Committee  methodology in  2011-12 and released through a Press Note issued on 22 nd July 2013. The Press Note defined the poverty line using  the  criterion  of  Monthly  Per  Capita  Consumption  Expenditure  (MPCE).  For  the  year 2011-12, the poverty line at all India level was estimated as MPCE of Rs. 816 for rural areas and Rs. 1000 for urban areas.

Ministry of Rural Development also conducts Below Poverty Line (BPL) Census to identify the poor  households  in  the  rural  areas,  to  determine  the  potential  beneficiaries  under  various programmes of the Government of India. The first BPL Census was conducted in 1992 for the Eighth Five Year Plan. Subsequently, BPL census was conducted in 1997, for the Ninth Five Year Plan and in 2002 for the Tenth Five Year Plan period. In 2011, in place of BPL Survey, a Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC 2011) was conducted in association with the States/UTs under technical and financial support from the Government of India where besides the  Ministry  of  Rural  Development,  the  Ministry  of  Housing  and  Urban  Poverty  Alleviation, Office  of  the  Registrar  General  and  Census  Commissioner  and  the  States/UTs  had  also participated.   The  findings  of  SECC  (2011)  in  rural  areas  are  available  on  www.secc.gov.in. Ranking  of  Households  in  rural  areas  under  SECC  (2011)  was  made  through  a  three-step process  involving  13  (Thirteen)  Automatic  Exclusion  parameters  for  identifying  not-poor households,  5  (five)  Automatic  Inclusion  parameters  for  identifying  poorest  of  the  poor households  and  7  (seven)  Deprivation  Criteria  for  identifying  poor  households.  SECC  data captures respondent based disclosures on socio economic status of 17.97 crore rural households which has allowed automatic exclusion of 07.07 crore of households as not poor on the basis of 13 parameters, automatic inclusion of 0.16 crore  households as poorest of the poor on the basis of 5 parameters and grading of deprivation of 8.72 crore  of rural households on the basis of seven criteria.  SECC  -  2011 database helps the Government to  generate programme specific priority list for targeting beneficiaries.

- (c)   State/UT-wise ratio and number of population below poverty (Tendulkar Methodology)   is at Annexure-I and  the  State/UT-wise  data  of  Socio-economic  Caste  Census-2011  (Rural)  is  at Annexure -II.

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## Annexure-1

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

|        |                          | Rural           | Rural                  | Urban           | Urban                  | Total           | Total                  |
|--------|--------------------------|-----------------|------------------------|-----------------|------------------------|-----------------|------------------------|
| Sl. 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               | 0.00            | 0.00                   | 12.62           | 0.26                   | 9.86            | 0.26                   |
| 35     | Lakshadweep              | 0.00            | 0.00                   | 3.44            | 0.02                   | 2.77            | 0.02                   |
|        | All India                | 25.70           | 2166.58                | 13.70           | 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.

## The State/UT-wise data of Socio-economic Caste Census-2011(Rural)

| States/UTs             |   Total Households |   Automatically Excluded Households |   Automatically Included Households |   Deprived Households |
|------------------------|--------------------|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|-----------------------|
| JAMMU &KASHMIR         |            1601606 |                              761875 |                               13791 |                586345 |
| HIMACHAL PRADESH       |            1263756 |                              840852 |                                1938 |                259855 |
| PUNJAB                 |            3269467 |                             2438567 |                                8004 |                778245 |
| CHANDIGARH             |              15657 |                                9250 |                                  10 |                  3925 |
| UTTARAKHAND            |            1479742 |                              823330 |                                4726 |                429888 |
| HARYANA                |            2969509 |                             1779954 |                                6519 |                997129 |
| NCT OF DELHI           |            1051097 |                              881667 |                                1127 |                 89744 |
| RAJASTHAN              |           10223073 |                             4069999 |                               72091 |               5165212 |
| UTTAR PRADESH          |           26015592 |                            12466832 |                               68190 |              10381355 |
| BIHAR                  |           17829066 |                             4793001 |                               37657 |              10876054 |
| SIKKIM                 |              88723 |                               39442 |                                 235 |                 33480 |
| ARUNACHAL PRADESH      |             201842 |                              118987 |                                3559 |                 72937 |
| NAGALAND               |             284310 |                               97323 |                                 969 |                182441 |
| MANIPUR                |             448163 |                              147003 |                                4963 |                236653 |
| MIZORAM                |             111626 |                               44437 |                                 512 |                 66499 |
| TRIPURA                |             697062 |                              165435 |                               33343 |                401458 |
| MEGHALAYA              |             485897 |                              151711 |                                1224 |                327506 |
| ASSAM                  |            5743835 |                             1689138 |                               33451 |               2892859 |
| WEST BENGAL            |           15756750 |                             3302481 |                              203209 |              10056266 |
| JHARKHAND              |            5044234 |                             1566811 |                               52045 |               2694061 |
| ODISHA                 |            8677615 |                             1628400 |                              119772 |               5730372 |
| CHHATTISGARH           |            4540999 |                              819609 |                              112084 |               3179327 |
| MADHYA PRADESH         |           11288946 |                             3301696 |                              396787 |               6748026 |
| GUJARAT                |            6920473 |                             3236193 |                               31216 |               2967972 |
| DAMANAND DIU           |              31795 |                               16707 |                                3519 |                  6313 |
| DADRA&NAGAR HAVELI     |              45352 |                               15780 |                                 298 |                 25378 |
| MAHARASHTRA            |           13841960 |                             5440356 |                              227678 |               6064157 |
| ANDHRA PRADESH         |            9344180 |                             3595077 |                               59470 |               4822104 |
| TELANGANA              |            5643739 |                             3143322 |                               13543 |               2136159 |
| KARNATAKA              |            8048664 |                             4022702 |                               30074 |               2836539 |
| GOA                    |             220731 |                              185010 |                                 135 |                 23816 |
| LAKSHADWEEP            |              10929 |                                9410 |                                  13 |                  1455 |
| KERALA                 |            6319215 |                             4388457 |                               14289 |               1469167 |
| TAMILNADU              |           10088119 |                             4657981 |                               38549 |               4704939 |
| PUDUCHERRY             |             115249 |                               65854 |                                 311 |                 40336 |
| ANDAMAN &NICOBAR Ilds. |              68481 |                               39354 |                                 168 |                 15976 |
| Total                  |          179787454 |                            70754003 |                             1595469 |              87303948 |

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