Lok Sabha Question No. 3967 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-08-10
Subject: Per Capita Income
Ministry: STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
Asked by: SAKSHI SWAMI MAHARAJ

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3967

## TO BE ANSWERED ON WEDNESDAY, THE 10 TH  AUGUST, 2016

## PER CAPITA INCOME

3967.  Dr. SWAMI SAKSHIJI MAHARAJ:

Will the Minister of STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  any  change  has  been  noticed  in  the  consumption pattern as a result of change in per capita income;
- (b) if so, the details thereof during each of the last three years and the current year; and
- (c) the  number  of  people  brought  above  poverty  line  during  the above  period  as  per  the  latest  estimates,  State-wise  including Uttar Pradesh?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION (SHRI D. V. SADANANDA GOWDA)

- (a) & (b): Yes,  Madam.  As  per  the  latest  estimates  released  by  the Central Statistics Office on private final consumption expenditure  (expenditure incurred  on final  consumption of goods  and  services  by  the  resident  households  and  nonprofit institutions serving households) and per capita income  (net  national  income  divided  by  total  population), the details of per capita private final consumption expenditure and the per capita income at constant prices (2011-12 prices) are given below:

| Year                                             | Per capita private final consumption expenditure (in Rs.)   | Per capita income (in Rs.)   |
|--------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------|
| 2012-13 (Second Revised Estimates( New Series )) | 41,864                                                      | 65,664                       |
| 2013-14 (Second Revised Estimates( New Series))  | 44,125                                                      | 68,867                       |
| 2014-15 (First Revised Estimates)                | 46,285                                                      | 72,889                       |
| 2015-16 (Provisional Estimates)                  | 49,112                                                      | 77,435                       |

(c): As per the report received from NITI Aayog, official poverty estimates  are  based  on  data  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.  Based  on  the data of 68 th round survey on household consumer expenditure conducted by the NSSO  in 2011-12, the erstwhile  Planning  Commission  estimated  poverty  for  the year 2011-12 following Tendulkar Committee methodology. According  to  this,  during  2004-05  and  2011-12,  number  of persons living below poverty line in India has reduced from 40.7  Crore  in  2004-05  to  27  Crore  in  2011-12.  The  Statewise details of number of persons below poverty line during 2004-05 and 2011-12 are given at Annexure.

## Annexure referred in reply to part (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question

No. 3967 for 10-08-2016 *** State-wise number of persons (in lakhs) below poverty line during

2004-05 & 2011-12 (based Tendulkar Committee Methodology)

| S. No.             | States            | 2004-05   |   2011-12 |
|--------------------|-------------------|-----------|-----------|
| 1                  | Andhra Pradesh    | 238.8     |      78.8 |
| 2                  | Arunachal Pradesh | 3.6       |       4.9 |
| 3                  | Assam             | 97.3      |     101.3 |
| 4                  | Bihar             | 485.6     |     358.2 |
| 5                  | Chhattisgarh      | 109.9     |     104.1 |
| 6                  | Delhi             | 20.4      |      17   |
| 7 Goa              |                   | 3.6       |       0.8 |
| 8                  | Gujarat           | 172.2     |     102.2 |
| 9 Haryana          | 55.1              |           |      28.8 |
| 10 Himachal        | Pradesh 14.6      |           |       5.6 |
| 11 Jammu & Kashmir | 14.2              |           |      13.3 |
| 12 Jharkhand       |                   | 130.7     |     124.3 |
| 13 Karnataka       |                   | 185.7     |     129.8 |
| 14 Kerala          |                   | 65        |      23.9 |
| 15 Madhya          | Pradesh 316.9     |           |     234.1 |
| 16 Maharashtra     | 393.3             |           |     197.9 |
| 17 Manipur         | 8.7               |           |      10.2 |
| 18 Meghalaya       | 3.9               |           |       3.6 |
| 19 Mizoram         | 1.4               |           |       2.3 |
| 20 Nagaland        |                   | 1.9       |       3.8 |
| 21 Odisha          |                   | 220.2     |     138.5 |
| 22 Puducherry      | 1.5               |           |       1.2 |
| 23 Punjab          | 53.8              |           |      23.2 |
| 24                 | Rajasthan         | 210.3     |     102.9 |
| 25 Sikkim          |                   | 1.8       |       0.5 |
| 26 Tamil Nadu      |                   | 186.8     |      82.6 |
| 27 Tripura         |                   | 13.7      |       5.2 |
| 28 Uttar           | Pradesh           | 735.5     |     598.2 |
| 29 Uttarakhand     |                   | 29.7      |      11.6 |
| 30                 | West Bengal       | 289.1     |     185   |
|                    | All India         | 4076.1    |    2697.8 |