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) to (e) The erstwhile Planning Commission constituted an Expert Group under the Chairmanship of Prof. Suresh D. Tendulkar on 2nd December, 2005 to review the methodology for estimation of poverty. The Expert Group submitted its report on 8th December 2009. Some of the major recommendations of the committee are as follows:
1. The Expert Group has acknowledged the multi-dimensional nature of poverty and recommended the estimates of poverty continue to be based on private household consumer expenditure collected by National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO).
2. The Group has recommended moving away from anchoring the poverty lines to the calorie intake norm.
3. In line with the decision of the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO), it has been recommended to adopt the Mixed Reference Period (MRP) based estimates of consumption expenditure as the basis for future poverty lines.
4. The Expert Group has also recommended MRP equivalent of urban Poverty Line Basket (PLB) corresponding to 25.7% urban headcount ratio as the new reference PLB. The rural poverty line should be recomputed to reflect money value in rural areas of the same poverty line basket (PLB) that is recommended as the new reference PLB for urban areas.
The Tendulkar Committee recommended Monthly Per Capita Consumption Expenditure (MPCE) of Rs. 447 for rural areas and Rs 579 for urban areas as the poverty line for the year 2004-05, which was accepted by the erstwhile Planning commission. The State-wise poverty line and poverty ratio in urban and rural areas for the year 2004-05 are given at Annexure-I. The erstwhile Planning Commission had been using Tendulkar Committee methodology to estimate the poverty line and the poverty ratio at national and state level. For the year 2011-12, the erstwhile Planning Commission, using the poverty line recommended by the Tendulkar Committee for 2004-05 and updating it to 2011-12 had estimated the poverty lines as monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) of Rs. 816 in rural areas and Rs. 1000 in urban areas. The number of persons living below poverty line in India has been estimated as 27 crore (21.9%) in 2011-12. These poverty lines vary from state to state because of price differentials. The State wise poverty line and number of persons living below poverty line in 2011-12 for rural and urban areas are given at Annexure-II.
Annexure-I
Poverty Lines and poverty Headcount Ratio for People living below poverty line for 2004-05 (Tendulkar Methodology)
S.No. State Poverty Line (Rs) Poverty Headcount Ratio (%)
Rural Urban Rural Urban Total
1 Andhra Pradesh 433.43 563.16 32.30 23.40 29.90
2 Arunachal Pradesh 547.14 618.45 33.60 23.50 31.10
3 Assam 478.00 600.03 36.40 21.80 34.40
4 Bihar 433.43 526.18 55.70 43.70 54.40
5 Chhattisgarh 398.92 513.70 55.10 28.40 49.40
6 Delhi 541.39 642.47 15.60 12.90 13.10
7 Goa 608.76 671.15 28.10 22.20 25.00
8 Gujarat 501.58 659.18 39.10 20.10 31.80
9 Haryana 529.42 626.41 24.80 22.40 24.10
10 Himachal Pradesh 520.40 605.74 25.00 4.60 22.90
11 Jammu & Kashmir 522.30 602.89 14.10 10.40 13.20
12 Jharkhand 404.79 531.35 51.60 23.80 45.30
13 Karnataka 417.84 588.06 37.50 25.90 33.40
14 Kerala 537.31 584.70 20.20 18.40 19.70
15 Madhya Pradesh 408.41 532.26 53.60 35.10 48.60
16 Maharashtra 484.89 631.85 47.90 25.60 38.10
17 Manipur 578.11 641.13 39.30 34.50 38.00
18 Meghalaya 503.32 745.73 14.00 24.70 16.10
19 Mizoram 639.27 699.75 23.00 7.90 15.30
20 Nagaland 687.30 782.93 10.00 4.30 9.00
21 Odisha 407.78 497.31 60.80 37.60 57.20
22 Puducherry 385.45 506.17 22.90 9.90 14.10
23 Punjab 543.51 642.51 22.10 18.70 20.90
24 Rajasthan 478.00 568.15 35.80 29.70 34.40
25 Sikkim 531.50 741.68 31.80 2.90 31.10
26 Tamil Nadu 441.69 559.77 37.50 19.70 28.90
27 Tripura 450.49 555.79 44.50 22.50 40.60
28 Uttar Pradesh 435.14 532.12 42.70 34.10 40.90
29 Uttarakhand 486.24 602.39 35.10 26.20 32.70
30 West Bengal 445.38 572.51 38.20 24.40 34.30
All India 446.68 578.80 41.80 25.70 37.20
Annexure-II
Poverty Lines and number of persons living below poverty line for 2011-12
(Tendulkar Methodology)
S.No. State Poverty Line (Rs) Number of persons (Lakhs)
Rural Urban Rural Urban Total
1 Andhra Pradesh 860 1009 61.8 17.0 78.8
2 Arunachal Pradesh 930 1060 4.2 0.7 4.9
3 Assam 828 1008 92.1 9.2 101.3
4 Bihar 778 923 320.4 37.8 358.2
5 Chhattisgarh 738 849 88.9 15.2 104.1
6 Delhi 1145 1134 0.5 16.5 17.0
7 Goa 1090 1134 0.4 0.4 0.8
8 Gujarat 932 1152 75.4 26.9 102.2
9 Haryana 1015 1169 19.4 9.4 28.8
10 Himachal Pradesh 913 1064 5.3 0.3 5.6
11 Jammu & Kashmir 891 988 10.7 2.5 13.3
12 Jharkhand 748 974 104.1 20.2 124.3
13 Karnataka 902 1089 92.8 37.0 129.8
14 Kerala 1018 987 15.5 8.5 23.9
15 Madhya Pradesh 771 897 191.0 43.1 234.1
16 Maharashtra 967 1126 150.6 47.4 197.9
17 Manipur 1118 1170 7.4 2.8 10.2
18 Meghalaya 888 1154 3.0 0.6 3.6
19 Mizoram 1066 1155 1.9 0.4 2.3
20 Nagaland 1270 1302 2.8 1.0 3.8
21 Odisha 695 861 126.1 12.4 138.5
22 Puducherry 1301 1309 0.7 0.6 1.2
23 Punjab 1054 1155 13.4 9.8 23.2
24 Rajasthan 905 1002 84.2 18.7 102.9
25 Sikkim 930 1226 0.4 0.1 0.5
26 Tamil Nadu 880 937 59.2 23.4 82.6
27 Tripura 798 920 4.5 0.8 5.2
28 Uttarakhand 880 1082 8.2 3.4 11.6
29 Uttar Pradesh 768 941 479.4 118.8 598.2
30 West Bengal 783 981 141.1 43.8 185.0
All India 816 1000 2166.6 531.2 2697.8
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