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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Poverty survey to miss deadline by Basant Kumar Mohanty

Poverty survey to miss deadline by Basant Kumar Mohanty

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published Published on Nov 17, 2011   modified Modified on Nov 17, 2011

A survey to identify the country’s poor looks set to miss its December 2011 deadline since it has not even started in 20-odd states, including Bengal.

The “socio-economic caste census” is being conducted by the rural development ministry, urban housing and poverty alleviation ministry, and the registrar-general of India.

One reason that a rural development ministry official cited for the delay is Bharat Electronics Limited’s failure to supply enough low-cost tablet computers for the conduct of the census. The ministry is consulting the department of defence production to see if it can provide such tablets.

The other reason, the official said, is the states’ tardiness.

“Some states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have said they will start the survey only after February. In that case, the deadline is most likely to be extended till May 2012,” the official said.

The census was launched in Tripura on June 29 and is four-fifths complete in the state.

As of today, the survey is on in 10 states and Union territories: Tripura, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Chandigarh, Daman and Diu, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. It’s over only in Puducherry and is to start in Bengal around the end of this month.

The cabinet had approved the survey to find out the caste, religion and the economic level of each citizen. While the last caste census was carried out in 1931, the last below-poverty-line (BPL) census was undertaken in 2002.

The current survey will rank people depending on the assets they have, the amenities they use and the deprivations they face.

A committee will be set up to analyse the census data and suggest the criteria to identify who should benefit from the various government welfare programmes.

Certain families are already ruled out: those that own assets such as mechanised farm equipment or motorised boats or vehicles, or have landline phones or Kisan credit cards with credit limit of Rs 50,000 or more.


The Telegraph, 18 November, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111118/jsp/nation/story_14766452.jsp


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