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Government panel to set poverty mark for rural schemes

-The Times of India

The Centre has set up an expert committee to determine the poverty mark to identify beneficiaries of rural development ministry's programmes.

The committee, to be headed by Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen, will examine the figures of the socio-economic caste survey to decide who is below the poverty line in terms of deserving the rural welfare schemes focused on poor like Indira Awas Yojana, old-age pension and national rural livelihood mission.

The constitution of the panel indicates that the long-delayed survey may be complete by February, sources said. The committee, which is to give its report by March-end, includes Kirit Parikh (chairman, IRADe), Mahendra Dev (director, IGIDR), Nikhil Dey (civil society), Dr Himanshu (JNU) and P P Mitra (chief economic advisor, RD ministry).

Planning commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and RD minister Jairam Ramesh had announced to not use the Tendulkar committee's estimates for rural programmes after an affidavit in Supreme Court kicked up a row.

The claim that a monthly expenditure above Rs 781 in rural areas and Rs 965 in urban areas was considered poor triggered an outrage. Activists asked if it was realistic to say that anyone spending more than Rs 26 in rural areas and Rs 32 in urban areas were not poor.

The plan panel drew flak for the claim even as the issue snowballed into a political confrontation with opposition calling it "UPA's joke on the poor".

To douse the anger, Ahluwalia said a multi-dimensional approach was required to measure poverty while adding that entitlements were no longer linked to poverty line. It was said that different set of parameters would be evolved for government benefits.