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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Computer criterion in urban poor count -Sobhana K

Computer criterion in urban poor count -Sobhana K

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published Published on Jun 12, 2013   modified Modified on Jun 12, 2013
-The Telegraph


The SR Hashim committee, formed in 2010 to help identify the urban poor, has suggested criteria to automatically count in and count out households from the poverty list and assign scores to the rest.

According to the recommendations, ownership of computer with an Internet connection will exclude a household from the poverty list. The report has been submitted to the housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry.

Sources in the ministry described the exclusion criteria as "harsh", pointing out that the slum census of 2011 had reported that at least 10.4 per cent households own computers. However, only 4.4 per cent own landline phones. Nearly 63.5 per cent own mobile phones, but that is not a ground for exclusion from the poverty list, they said.

"The Hashim committee report is one of the inputs, we will discuss it at length and come up with a criteria. Ultimately, we will need approval from the cabinet for urban poor identification criteria," housing and poverty alleviation secretary Arun Kumar Misra said.

Households not automatically included or excluded from the poverty list are proposed to be graded on three vulnerabilities - residential, social and occupational. Dalits and tribals count among the socially vulnerable; thatched/ mud/ grass homes or those with polythene/ plastic sheets for roof or walls would qualify residents as vulnerable; while street vendors, cobblers, plumbers and even tailors have been included on the list of vulnerable occupations.

A score of zero would exclude the household from the poverty list. The higher the score - 12 is the highest - the higher the priority for inclusion in the Below Poverty Line list. However, the report leaves it to the government to set a cut-off below which families would not make the list.

The poverty line was fixed in 1977 based on the notion of a person's minimum nutritional requirement, expressed in calories. This was endorsed in 1993. In 2009, the Suresh D. Tendulkar committee recommended anchoring the poverty line to household consumer expenditure.

"...Both the Expert Groups 1993, 2009 avoided working out a fresh poverty line from the latest available consumer expenditure survey data, and suggested a complex procedure of adjustment and updating of poverty line," the Hashim committee report notes.


The Telegraph, 12 June, 2013, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130612/jsp/nation/story_16998364.jsp#.UbgOAdjcjco


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