Lok Sabha Question No. 2730 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-08-05
Subject: Survey of Income and Expenditure
Ministry: STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
Asked by: FAIZAL P.P. MOHAMMED

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2730

## TO BE ANSWERED ON WEDNESDAY, THE 5 TH  AUGUST, 2015

## SURVEY OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

## 2730. MOHAMMED FAIZAL:

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

- (a) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  conduct  survey  of  the income and expenditure of employees in the country;
- (b)
- if so, the locations identified for the same; and
- (c) the time by which it is likely to be completed?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION, MINISTER OF STATE FOR  MINISTRY  OF  EXTERNAL  AFFAIRS  AND  MINISTER  OF  STATE  FOR MINISTRY  OF  OVERSEAS  INDIAN  AFFAIRS  [GENERAL  (Dr.)  V.K.  SINGH (Retd.)]

- (a): The Government has undertaken the Working Class Family Income and Expenditure Survey (WCFI&ES) for Industrial Workers.
- (b): The details of 88 locations/centres selected for the survey are given in the statement at Annexure.
- (c): The survey will be completed by September, 2016.

Annexure Statement referred to in reply to part (b) of Unstarred Question No. 2730

## for answer in Lok Sabha on 05.08.2015

## Details of 88 locations/centres selected for the Working Class Family Income and Expenditure Survey (WCFI&ES) for Industrial Workers

| State/UT             | Name of the locations/centres*                                                                                 | State/UT         | Name of the locations/centres*                                                                               |
|----------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Andhra Pradesh       | 1. Guntur 2. Nellore 3. Vishakhapatnam                                                                         | Goa              | 1. Goa                                                                                                       |
| Assam                | 1. Biswanath Chariali 2. Doom-Dooma- Tinsukia 3. Guwahati 4. Labac Silchar 5. Numaligarh- Golaghat 6. Sibsagar | Gujarat          | 1. Ahmedabad 2. Bhavnagar 3. Rajkot 4. Surat 5. Vadodara                                                     |
| Bihar                | 1. Monghyr-Jamalpur 2. Patna                                                                                   | Haryana          | 1. Faridabad 2. Gurgaon 3. Yamunanagar                                                                       |
| Chandigarh           | 1. Chandigarh                                                                                                  | Himachal Pradesh | 1. Himachal Pradesh                                                                                          |
| Chattisgarh          | 1. Bhilai 2. Korba 3. Raipur                                                                                   | Jammu Kashmir    | 1. Jammu & Kashmir                                                                                           |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | 1. Dadra & Nagar Haveli                                                                                        | Jharkhand        | 1. Bokaro 2. Dhanbad-Jharia 3. Jamshedpur 4. Ramgarh                                                         |
| Delhi                | 1. Delhi                                                                                                       | Karnataka        | 1. Bangalore 2. Belgaum 3. Davanagere- Harihara 4. Chikmagalur 5. Hubli-Dharwad 6. Mercara- Kodagu 7. Mysore |

| State/UT       | Name of the locations/centres*                           | State/UT      | Name of the locations/centres*                                                          |
|----------------|----------------------------------------------------------|---------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Kerala         | 1. Ernakulam/Alwaye 2. Idukki 3. Kollam                  | Rajasthan     | 1. Alwar 2. Bhilwara 3. Jaipur                                                          |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1. Bhopal 2. Chindwara 3. Indore 4. Jabalpur             | Tamil Nadu    | 1. Chennai 2. Coimbatore 3. Coonoor 4. Madurai 5. Salem 6. Tirunelveli 7. Virudhu Nagar |
| Maharashtra    | 1. Mumbai 2. Nagpur 3. Nasik 4. Pune 5. Solapur 6. Thane | Telangana     | 1. Hyderabad 2. Manchiryal 3. Warangal                                                  |
| Meghalaya      | 1. Shillong                                              | Tripura       | 1. Tripura                                                                              |
| Odisha         | 1. Angul-Tilchar 2. Cuttack 3. Keonjhar                  | Uttar Pradesh | 1. Agra 2. Ghaziabad/G.B. Nagar 3. Kanpur 4. Lucknow 5. Varanasi                        |
| Puducherry     | 1. Puducherry                                            | Uttarakhand   | 1. Udham Singh Nagar (Rudrapur)                                                         |
| Punjab         | 1. Amritsar 2. Jalandhar 3. Ludhiana 4. Sangrur          | West Bengal   | 1. Darjeeling 2. Durgapur 3. Haldia 4. Howrah 5. Jalpaiguri 6. Kolkata 7. Raniganj      |

*    Due  to  scattered  population  of  Industrial  Workers,  in  respect  of States/UTs like Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Goa, Tripura, Delhi,  Chandigarh,  Dadra  &  Nagar  Haveli  and  Puducherry,  whole State/UT has been taken as a Centre for the survey.

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