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Number of Urban Poor

profile picture Praveen Sharma    Posted on 17 August 2011,  
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The Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that as per the Planning Commission estimates 807.60 lakhs urban people were below poverty line in the year 2004-05. A Statement showing State-wise number of urban poor is at Annexure.

 

          In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today she said, the poverty line has been traditionally defined by the Planning Commission on the basis of Monthly Per Capita Consumption Expenditure (MPCE) as the criterion. The number and proportion of persons living below the poverty line are computed for the States as well as the country using the data from Large Sample Surveys on Household Consumer Expenditure carried out by the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO). 

 

She said, no State Government has approached the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation regarding reservations on the criteria for determination of urban poor.

Annexure

Population below poverty line urban areas (2004-2005)

S.No.

States/UTs

Urban Poverty line (Rs. Per capita per month)

No. of Persons (Lakhs)

Head Count Ratio

(%)

1

2

3

4

5

1

Andhra Pradesh

563.16

51.30

23.40

2

Arunachal Pradesh

618.45

0.70

23.50

3

Assam

600.03

8.40

21.80

4

Bihar

526.18

40.90

43.70

5

Chhattisgarh

513.70

13.40

28.40

6

Delhi

642.47

18.90

12.90

7

Goa

671.15

1.70

22.20

8

Gujarat

659.18

41.90

20.10

9

Haryana

626.41

15.80

22.40

10

Himachal Pradesh

605.74

0.30

4.60

11

Jammu & Kashmir

602.89

2.90

10.40

12

Jharkhand

531.35

15.60

23.80

13

Karnataka

588.06

50.80

25.90

14

Kerala

584.70

15.70

18.40

15

Madhya Pradesh

532.26

61.70

35.10

16

Maharashtra

631.85

116.10

25.60

17

Manipur

641.13

2.10

34.50

18

Meghalaya

745.73

1.20

24.70

19

Mizoram

699.75

0.40

7.90

20

Nagaland

782.93

0.20

4.30

21

Orissa

497.31

22.70

37.60

22

Punjab

642.51

17.20

18.70

23

Rajasthan

568.15

42.80

29.70

24

Sikkim

741.68

0.20

25.90

25

Tamil Nadu

559.77

61.30

19.70

26

Tripura

555.79

1.30

22.50

27

Uttar Pradesh

532.12

130.30

34.10

28

Uttarakhand

602.39

6.40

26.20

29

West Bengal

572.51

57.90

24.40

30

Pondicherry

506.17

0.70

9.90

 

ALL INDIA

578.80

807.60

25.70

 

Note: The new poverty lines have been generated for all the states including the north-eastern states. However, in the absence of adequate data, the expert group has suggested use of poverty line of the neighboring states for union territories.

 

Source: Tendulkar Committee Estimates of Poverty released by The Planning Commission

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