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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India’s socio-economic census threatens to exclude crores of poor from social schemes -Anumeha Yadav

India’s socio-economic census threatens to exclude crores of poor from social schemes -Anumeha Yadav

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published Published on Jul 17, 2015   modified Modified on Jul 17, 2015
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The census says 7 of 17 crore rural households face no 'deprivation' despite living in extreme poverty. If the government follows this definition, all these people will be left out of country’s social safety net.

The findings of the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 have been long awaited by academics and politicians alike. Now that they are out, there is a fear that they could end up being used to exclude crores of people from the country’s social safety net.

On July 3, when Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Minister for Rural Development Birendra Singh released the provisional data on the socio-economic profile of rural households from the census, they indicated that the Centre will use it to identify beneficiaries of its social schemes. “This document will form the basis of helping us to target groups to support in terms of policy planning,” said Jaitley.

The data unambiguously shows extreme levels of poverty in rural India. Only 8.3% of rural households have a member earning Rs 10,000 or more a month, it says. The highest-earning member in about 75% of rural households makes less than Rs 5,000 in a month. Nearly 51% of these members are employed as casual or manual labourers, and more than half own no land.

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Scroll.in, 16 July, 2015, http://scroll.in/article/740903/indias-socio-economic-census-threatens-to-exclude-crores-of-poor-from-social-schemes


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