Lok Sabha Question No. 49 (STARRED), answered on 2015-07-23
Subject: Socio-Economic and Caste Census
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: KALIKESH NARAYAN SINGH DEO, RAKESH SINGH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MNNISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 49 TO BE ANSWERED ON 23.07.2015

## SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CASTE CENSUS

## *49\_ SHRI KALIKESH N. SINGH DEO: SHRI RAKESH SINGH:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Socio-Economic and Caste Census, 2011 of the country indicating the social economic people of rural areas has been released by this Ministry;
- (e) whether the Government proposes to allocate additional adequate funds for such States to tide over poverty and if so, the details thereof?
- if so, the details of landless/poor identified in the rural by the census areas; 8 the details of the criteria adopted for said Census; the and caste structure with particular reference to rural India, as per the said census; and

## ANSWER MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI BIRENDER SINGH)

(a) to (e):

Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

Statement Referred to in Reply to LokSabha Starred Question No. 49 Due for Answer on July, 2015.

(a): With the objective to enable ranking of households based on their socio economic status, the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 has been  undertaken by the respective State Government and Union Territory Administration, with the technical and financial support has three inextricably entwined components: socioeconomic census in rural areas socioeconomic census in urban areas under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Caste Census under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Home Affairs, Registrar General of India (RGI) and Census Commissioner of India:

In respect of SECC for rural areas, out of 640 districts 628 districts had placed their Draft List before respective Panchayat and Gram Sabha for inviting claims and objections. 99.7% of the 1.24 crore claims and objections so received have been resolved. Accordingly, provisional data and its findings of the rural survey have been placed in public domain (WWW. secc-gov.in) so that State/Union Territory Governments can objectively prepare list of families by ranking households, based on their socio economic status, for evidence based targeted intervention in

5,37,01,383 households out of 17,91,64,579 rural households have reported as deprived and landless households.

(c) (d): Ranking of households in rural areas in the SECC 2011 is based on three sets of criteria, viz , Automatic Exclusion  Criteria, Automatic Inclusion Criteria and Deprivation Criteria. The criteria for ranking households and state  wise percentage of rural households reporting deprivation under the seven deprivation criteria are given respectively at Annex-I and Annex-II:

(e): Ministry of Rural  Development has .decided to use  SECC data and its  resources for planning and implementation of rural development programs and schemes

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Annex [ referred to in part (c )& (d) of reply to LokSabha Starred Question No.49 to be answered on 23.07.2015.

The criteria adopted for ranking of rural households in the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 are exclusion criteria, automatic inclusion criteria and deprivation criteria, details of which are given as below.

1. Automatic Exclusion Criteria: The exclusion criteria would be that any household satisfying any of the following criteria would be automatically excluded:
2. Households owning Motorized Two/Three/Four Wheelers/Fishing boats (which registration); require
3. (iii) Households having Kissan Credit Card with the credit limit of Rs.50,000 and above;
4. (ii) Households owning mechanized Three/Four wheeler agricultural equipments such as tractors, harvesters etc;
5. (iv) Households with any member as Government Employee: gazetted and non-gazetted employees of Central government, State government, Public Sector Undertakings, Government-aided autonomous bodies and local bodies. This will exclude incentive other honorarium based workers; and
6. Households with Enterprises registered with the Government for any purpose: any non Itural enterprise registered with the Central or State Governments; agricult
7. (vii) Households paying income tax O professional tax;
8. (vi) Households with any member in the family earning more than Rs. 10,000 p.m;;
9. (viii) Households with three or more rooms with pucca walls and pucca roof;
10. (x) Households owning landline phones;
11. (ix) Households owning Refrigerator;
12. (xi) Households owning 2.5 acres Or more irrigated land with at least one irrigation equipment such as diesel/ electric operated bore well/ tube well;
13. (xiii) Households owning 7.5 acres or more land with at least one irrigation equipment such as diesel/ electric operated bore well tube well;
14. (xii) Households with 5 acres or more land irrigated for two or more crop seasons;
2. Automatic Inclusion Criteria: Following categories of households would be compulsorily/ automatically included subject to exclusion criteria:
16. (i) Households without shelter;
17. Manual Scavengers;
18. Destitutes living on alms;
19. Primitive Tribal Groups;
20. Legally Released Bonded Labourers;

Deprivation Criteria: The remaining households (subject to exclusion criteria and compulsory inclusion) will then be assigned deprivation scores depending on the number of deprivation indicators satisfy: The following are the deprivation indicators used for inclusion: they

- Households with only one room with kucha walls and kucha roof;
- Households with no adult member between age 16 to 59;
- Households with any disabled member and no able bodied adult member;
- Female headed households with no adult male member between age 16 to 59
- SCIST households;
- (vii) Landless households deriving the major part of their income from manual casual labour;
- Households with no literate adult above 25 years;

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| SI No | t                                                                                                             | Total Househ olds                                                                                             | % of Deprived Households with deprivation criteria                                                            | % of Deprived Households with deprivation criteria                                                            | % of Deprived Households with deprivation criteria                                                            | % of Deprived Households with deprivation criteria                                                            | % of Deprived Households with deprivation criteria                                                            | % of Deprived Households with deprivation criteria                                                            | % of Deprived Households with deprivation criteria                                                            |
| SI No |                                                                                                               |                                                                                                               | Only one room with kucha walls and kucha roof                                                                 | No adult member between age 16 to 59                                                                          | Female headed households with no adult male member between age 16 to 59                                       | Disabled member and no able bodied adult member                                                               | SCIST households                                                                                              | No literate adult above 25 years                                                                              | Landless household S deriving major part of their income from manual casual labour                            |
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|       | All India                                                                                                     | 1791647 59                                                                                                    | 13.25 %                                                                                                       | 3.64%                                                                                                         | 3.85%                                                                                                         | 0.40%                                                                                                         | 21.53%                                                                                                        | 23.52%                                                                                                        | 29.97%/                                                                                                       |
|       | ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS                                                                                     | 66643                                                                                                         | 1.66%/                                                                                                        | 1.97%                                                                                                         | 2.38%                                                                                                         | 0.25%                                                                                                         |                                                                                                               | 7.81%                                                                                                         | 10.77%                                                                                                        |
|       | ANDHRA PRADESH                                                                                                | 9297011                                                                                                       | 3.71%                                                                                                         | 6.12%                                                                                                         | 6.61%                                                                                                         | 0.36%                                                                                                         | 17.20%                                                                                                        | 28.68%/                                                                                                       | 36.49%                                                                                                        |
|       | ARUNACHAL PRADESH                                                                                             | 187870                                                                                                        | 9.66%/                                                                                                        | 1.43%                                                                                                         | 2.47%                                                                                                         |                                                                                                               | 31.46%                                                                                                        | 20.76%                                                                                                        | 3.96%                                                                                                         |
|       | ASSAM                                                                                                         | 5743836                                                                                                       | 8.14%                                                                                                         | 1.49%                                                                                                         | 3.36%                                                                                                         | 0.40%                                                                                                         | 16.26%                                                                                                        | 24.83%                                                                                                        | 27.26%                                                                                                        |
| 5     | BIHAR                                                                                                         | 1766272                                                                                                       | 19.60 %                                                                                                       | 3.42%                                                                                                         | 2.95%                                                                                                         | 0.47%/                                                                                                        | 15.80%                                                                                                        | 34.05%                                                                                                        | 46.78%                                                                                                        |
|       | CHANDIGARH                                                                                                    | 15657                                                                                                         | 1.45%/                                                                                                        | 0.42%                                                                                                         | 0.67%                                                                                                         | 0.04%                                                                                                         | 9.51%                                                                                                         | 15.49%/                                                                                                       | 11.15%                                                                                                        |

|    | CHHATTISGA RH        | 4523606   | 28.99   | 6.48%   | 6.79%/   | 0.81%   | 42.14%   | 33.94%   | 34.00%   |
|----|----------------------|-----------|---------|---------|----------|---------|----------|----------|----------|
|    | DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI | 45352     | 9.84%   | 1.75%   | 1.87%    | 0.13%   | 46.47%   | 30.70%   | 15.40%   |
|    | DAMAN AND DIU        | 31795     | 0.82%   | 1.05%   | 1.52%    | 0.13%   | 2.40%/   | 11.55%/  | 9.10%/   |
| 10 | GOA                  | 220731    | 0.74%   | 1.38%   | 2.38%,_  | 0.16%/  | 3.76%/   | 4.01%    | 5.33%    |
| 11 | GUJARAT              | 6922567   | 9.74%   | 3.34%   | 2.84%    | 0.28%   | 19.26%   | 17.03%   | 26.59%/  |
| 12 | HARYANA              | 2969509   | 3.39%   | 1.89%   | 1.74%    | 0.19%   | 15.73%   | 16.68%/  | 27.09%   |
| 13 | HIMACHAL PRADESH     | 1261682   | 1.16%   | 2.70%   | 2.96%    | 0.31%   | 13.28%   | 7.77%/   | 3.92%/   |
|    | JAMMU & KASHMIR      | 1600842   | 7.46%/  | 1.83%   | 1.66%/   | 0.36%   | 15.80%/  | 25.18%/  | 7.73%    |
| 15 | JHARKHAND            | 5045083   | 14.79 % | 2.62%/  | 3.14%    | 0.34%   | 31.09%   | 28.43%   | 18.08%/  |
| 16 | KARNATAKA            | 8048694   | 4.47%   | 2.90%   | 4.75%/   | 0.25%   | 16.26%/  | 18.95%   | 14.59%/  |
| 17 | KERALA               | 6289649   |         | 2.11%   | 3.67%    | 0.19%   | 7.11%    | 1.82%/   | 18.80%/  |
| 18 | LAKSHADWEE P         | 10929     | 1.07%   | 0.70%   | 2.11%    | 0.20%/  | 12.89%   | 0.64%/   | 3.10%    |
| 19 | MADHYA PRADESH       | 1128273   | 24.89 % | 5.19%   | 4.07%/   | 0.74%   | 31.27%   | 33.13%   | 38.34%   |
| 20 | MAHARASHT RA         | 1355980 3 | 7.87%/  | 5.11%   | 4.82%/   | 0.35%/  | 19.40%   | 17.62%/  | 29.32%   |
| 21 | MANIPUR              | 448163    | 2.43%   | 1.38%   | 2.97%/   | 0.19%   | 39.00%   | 13.77%   | 13.87%   |
| 22 | MEGHALAYA            | 485913    | 6.25%/  | 1.67%/  | 5.59%    | 0.40%   | 63.38%   | 25.67%   | 27.27%   |
| 23 | MIZORAM              | 111626    | 11.79 % | 2.11%   | 3.32%    | 0.21%   | 59.15%   |          | 4.78%/   |
| 24 | NAGALAND             | 284310    | 3.50%   | 2.87%   | 4.42%    | 0.44%   | 61.18%   | 21.40%   | 4.95%    |
| 25 | NCT OF DELHI         | 1051106   | 0.32%   | 0.32%   | 0.40%    | 0.04%   | 2.69%/   | 3.53%    | 4.86%/   |
| 26 | ODISHA               | 8622827   | 27.23 % | 4.88%   | 5.25%    | 0.59%/  | 36.95%   | 27.79%/  | 36.19%/  |

| 27   | PUDUCHERRY    | 115079    | 13.45 %   | 3.99%   | 6.07%/   | 0.27%   | 13.89%   | 11.12%   | 20.86%   |
|------|---------------|-----------|-----------|---------|----------|---------|----------|----------|----------|
| 28   | PUNJAB        | 3268562   | 2.52%/    | 1.68%   | 1.18%    | 0.17%   | 16.25%   | 12.52%   | 21.10%   |
| 29   | RAJASTHAN     | 1022227 7 | 19.98 %   | 3.20%   | 3.08%    | 0.77%/  | 27.32%   | 31.38%   | 21.93%   |
| 30   | SIKKIM        | 88723     | 2.29%/    | 1.74%   | 2.80%    | 0.74%   | 26.89%   | 13.50%   | 8.07%    |
| 31   | TAMILNADU     | 1006784 9 | 12.79 %   | 6.29%   | 6.85%    | 0.27%   | 18.13%   | 16.39%/  | 37.22%   |
| 32   | TELANGANA     | 5706101   | 1.95%     | 4.69%   | 5.09%/   | 0.37%   | 16.32%/  | 25.56%   | 22.86%   |
| 33   | TRIPURA       | 693455    | 7.26%/    | 2.35%   | 3.86%    | 0.30%   | 31.63%   | 11.82%/  | 27.25%   |
| 34   | UTTAR PRADESH | 2597546   | 10.68 %   |         | 2.03%    | 0.20%   | 16.69%   | 20.33%   | 22.18%   |
|      | UTTARAKHAN D  | 1479742   | 2.65%     | 3.49%/  | 5.54%/   | 0.41%   | 12.73%   | 12.88%/  | 12.28%   |
| 36   | WEST BENGAL   | 1575685 2 | 21.06 %   | 2.41%   | 3.55%/   | 0.47%/  | 30.15%   | 25.73%   | 44.32%   |