Wednesday, June 29, 2011

[ZESTCaste] First-ever below poverty line, caste census begins

 

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-economy/article2145476.ece

First-ever below poverty line, caste census begins
Our Bureau

Launched in Tripura; exclusion criteria widened

New Delhi, June 29:

The country's first-ever socio-economic and caste Census to identify
people living below poverty line (BPL) was flagged off from a tribal
village, Sankhola, in West Tripura District on Wednesday.

The door-to-door exercise in the entire country is being done
electronically, using low-cost handheld devices produced by Bharat
Electronic Ltd.

Launching the Census in Tripura, Mr B.K Sinha, Secretary, Ministry of
Rural Development, said the entire exercise to identify BPL households
would be completed by 2011-12. The results would be utilised for
targeting the poor in the 12th Plan (2012-13 to 2016-17), an official
release said.

Expert panel

Mr Sinha said identification of BPL households in rural areas would be
done as per the suggestions of the expert group headed by Dr N.C.
Saxena.

Households without shelter, destitutes/living on alms, manual
scavengers, primitive tribal groups, and legally released bonded
labourers will get the highest priority for inclusion in the BPL list,
he said.

The remaining poor households will be identified from the angle of
deprivation by using indicators, such as those with only one room with
kucha walls and kucha roof; with no adult member between age 16 and
59; female-headed households with no male between age 16 and 59;
households with any disabled member and no able-bodied adult; SC/ST
households; those with no literate adult above 25 years; and landless
households deriving the major part of their income from manual casual
labour.

Criteria

Among households that will be excluded from the BPL list are those
owning motorised two/three/four-wheelers, fishing boats (requiring
registration), mechanised three/four-wheeler agricultural equipment
such as tractors, harvesters etc, those with Kisan Credit Cards with
credit limit of Rs 50,000 and above, with any member who is a
Government employee, excluding workers such as ASHAs and Anganwadi
workers and those owning refrigerator or landline phones.
(This article was published in the Business Line print edition dated
June 30, 2011)

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