Question : PERSONS BELOW POVERTY LINE

(a) the number of persons brought above poverty line in various states including Maharashtra during the last three years till date alongwith the number of people still living below poverty line; and

(b) the number of people belonging to SC/STs among them, State-wise?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING (SHRI M.V.RAJASEKHARAN)

(a): Planning Commission estimates the number of persons living below the poverty line using data from the quinquennial rounds of National Sample survey Organisation (NSSO) on household consumption expenditure. The last such survey was carried out in 1999-2000, and as such the data for the last three years are not available. Based on the last two such rounds of NSSO conducted in 1993-94 and 1999-2000, the total number of persons living below poverty line in rural and urban areas and at all India level including Maharashtra is given below in table.

Total number of persons living below poverty line(in lakhs)
Years	Rural	Urban	Combined	All India level
1993-94	2440.31	763.37	3203.68
1999-2000	1932.43	670.07	2602.50	Maharashtra
1993-94	193.33	111.90	305.22
1999-2000	125.12	102.87	227.99

Number of Persons Living Below Poverty Line.	(in lakhs)
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S.No.	States/U.T.`s	1993-94	1999-2000
-	Rural	Urban Combined	Rural	Urban	Combined
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1	2 3 5 7	3 5 7
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1.	Andhra Pradesh	79.49	74.47	153.97	58.13	60.88	119.01
2.	Arunachal Pradesh	3.62	0.11	3.73	3.80	0.18	3.98
3.	Assam	94.33	2.03	96.36	92.17	2.38	94.55
4.	Bihar	450.86	42.49	493.35	376.51	49.13	425.64
5.	Goa	0.38	1.53	1.91	0.11	0.59	0.70
6.	Gujarat	62.16	43.02	105.19	39.80	28.09	67.89
7	Haryana	36.56	7.31	43.88	11.94	5.39	17.34
8.	Himachal Pradesh	15.40	0.46	15.86	4.84	0.29	5.12
9.	Jammu & Kashmir	19.05	1.86	20.92	2.97	0.49	3.46
10.	Karnataka	95.99	60.46	156.46	59.91	44.49	104.40
11.	Kerala	55.95	20.46	76.41	20.97	20.07	41.04
12.	Madhya Pradesh	216.19	82.33	298.52	217.32	81.22	298.54
13.	Maharashtra	193.33	111.90	305.22	125.12	102.87	227.99
14.	Manipur	6.33	0.47	6.80	6.53	0.66	7.19
15.	Meghalaya	7.09	0.29	7.38	7.89	0.34	8.23
16.	Mizoram	1.64	0.30	1.94	1.40	0.45	1.85
17.	Nagaland	4.85	0.20	5.05	5.21	0.28	5.49
18.	Orissa	140.90	19.70	160.60	143.69	25.40	169.09
19.	Punjab	17.76	7.35	25.11	10.20	4.29	14.49
20.	Rajasthan	94.68	33.82	128.50	55.06	26.78	81.83
21.	Sikkim	1.81	0.03	1.84	2.00	0.04	2.05
22.	Tamil Nadu	121.70	80.40	202.10	80.51	49.97	130.48
23.	Tripura	11.41	0.38	11.79	12.53	0.49	13.02
24.	Uttar Pradesh	496.17	108.28	604.46	412.01	117.88	529.89
25.	West Bengal	209.90	44.66	254.56	180.11	33.38	213.49
26.	A & N Island	0.73	0.33	1.06	0.58	0.24	0.82
27.	Chandigarh	0.07	0.73	0.80	0.06	0.45	0.51
28.	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	0.72	0.06	0.77	0.30	0.03	0.33
29.	Daman & Diu	0.03	0.15	0.18	0.01	0.05	0.06
30.	Delhi	0.19	15.32	15.51	0.07	11.42	11.49
31.	Lakshadweep	0.06	0.08	0.14	0.03	0.08	0.11
32.	Pondicherry	0.93	2.38	3.31	0.64	1.77	2.41	All India	2440.31 763.37	3203.68	1932.43	670.07	2602.50

Percentage of SC and ST Population below Poverty Line by States for 1993-94
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S.No. States	Sched- Sched-	All	Sched-	Sched-	All	uled	uled Popul-	uled	uled	Popul-	Caste	Tribe	ation	Caste	Tribe	ation
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1 Andhra Pradesh	26.02	25.66	15.92	43.82	46.68	38.33
2 Assam	45.38	41.44	45.01	14.34	7.11	7.73
3 Bihar	70.66	69.75	58.21	55.16	35.76	34.50
4 Gujarat	32.26	31.20	22.18	44.99	35.47	27.89
5 Haryana	46.56	41.55	28.02	23.58	0.00	16.38
6 Himachal Pradesh	36.89	63.94	30.34	18.52	0.00	9.18
7 Karnataka	46.36	37.33	29.88	61.59	62.05	40.14
8 Kerala	36.43	37.34	25.76	31.59	1.08	24.55
9 Madhya Pradesh	45.83	56.69	40.64	65.00	65.28	48.38
10 Maharashtra	51.64	50.38	37.93	52.56	61.06	35.15
11 Orissa	48.95	71.26	49.72	47.45	64.85	41.64
12 Punjab	22.08	27.00	11.95	27.96	0.00	11.35
13 Rajasthan	38.38	46.23	26.46	48.63	13.21	30.49
14 Tamil Nadu	44.05	44.37	32.48	61.50	30.08	39.77
15 Uttar Pradesh	58.99	37.11	42.28	58.02	36.89	35.39
16 West Bengal	45.29	61.95	40.80	37.73	19.41	22.41	All India	48.11	51.94	37.27	49.48	41.14	32.36

Percentage of SC and ST Population below Poverty Line by States for 1999-2000	Rural	Urban
S. States	Sched-	Sched- All	Sched-	Sched- All
No.	uled	uled	uled	uled	Caste	Tribe	Caste	Tribe
1 Andhra Pradesh	16.49	23.82 11.14	41.42	44.99	26.53
2 Assam	44.00	38.73 40.20	19.99	2.70	7.47
3 Bihar	59.81	59.68 44.22	51.91	39.47	32.95
4 Gujarat	17.77	29.11 13.17	29.13	36.66	15.59
5 Haryana	19.03 - 8.27	25.38 -	9.99
6 Himachal Pradesh	13.15	5.73 7.94	6.74 -	4.63
7 Karnataka	26.22	25.49 17.36	47.01	51.37	25.25
8 Kerala	14.64	24.20 9.38	24.15 -	20.27
9 Madhya Pradesh	41.29	56.26 37.09	54.24	52.59	38.54
10 Maharashtra	33.27	43.56 23.82	39.88	42.98	26.91
11 Orissa	51.83	73.93 48.13	70.59	59.59	43.13
12 Punjab	12.39	17.99 6.44	11.30	12.95	5.80
13 Rajasthan	19.62	25.27 13.65	41.82	20.71	19.85
14 Taiml Nadu	32.59	43.20 20.55	44.94	5.22	22.17
15 Uttar Pradesh	43.65	34.06 31.22	43.51	13.27	30.90
16 West Bengal	35.10	50.02 31.82	28.15	31.88	14.86
17 All India	36.25	45.86 27.11	38.47	34.75	23.65
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