Percentage of Poor People in the Country as Per NSS

The Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that the Planning Commission is the nodal agency in the Government for estimation of poverty in the country. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today she said, the Planning Commission has computed estimates of poverty for the year 2009-10 based on the latest data of large scale survey on household consumer expenditure collected by National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) NSSO in its 66^th round conducted during 2009-10. The poverty lines and poverty ratio for 2009-10 have been computed following Tendulkar methodology and released through a Press Note issued on 19^th March, 2012. According to this Press Note, the poverty ratio in the country is estimated as 29.8% in 2009-10. A Statement showing State/UT-wise poverty data is at Annexure.

          Kumari Selja said, the Planning Commission, in June 2012, has constituted an Expert Group under the Chairmanship of Dr. C. Rangarajan to “Review the Methodology for Measurement of Poverty”.

 

 Number and Percentage of Population below poverty line (2009-2010) (Tendulkar Methodology)

Sl. No	States / UTs				RURAL					URBAN				TOTAL
					% age of Persons		No. of Persons (Lakhs)			% age of Persons	No. of Persons (Lakhs)			% age of Persons	No. of Persons (Lakhs)
1	2				3		4			5	6			7	8
1	Andhra Pradesh				22.80		127.90			17.70	48.70			21.10	176.60
2	Arunachal Pradesh				26.20		2.70			24.90	0.80			25.90	3.50
3	Assam				39.90		105.30			26.10	11.20			37.90	116.40
4	Bihar				55.30		498.70			39.40	44.80			53.50	543.50
5	Chhattisgarh				56.10		108.30			23.80	13.60			48.70	121.90
6	Delhi				7.70		0.30			14.40	22.90			14.20	23.30
7	Goa				11.50		0.60			6.90	0.60			8.70	1.30
8	Gujarat				26.70		91.60			17.90	44.60			23.00	136.20
9	Haryana				18.60		30.40			23.00	19.60			20.10	50.00
10	Himachal Pradesh				9.10		5.60			12.60	0.90			9.50	6.40
11	Jammu & Kashmir				8.10		7.30			12.80	4.20			9.40	11.50
12	Jharkhand				41.60		102.20			31.10	24.00			39.10	126.20
13	Karnataka				26.10		97.40			19.60	44.90			23.60	142.30
14	Kerala				12.00		21.60			12.10	18.00			12.00	39.60
15	Madhya Pradesh				42.00		216.90			22.90	44.90			36.70	261.80
16	Maharashtra				29.50		179.80			18.30	90.90			24.50	270.80
17	Manipur				47.40		8.80			46.40	3.70			47.10	12.50
18	Meghalaya				15.30		3.50			24.10	1.40			17.10	4.90
19	Mizoram				31.10		1.60			11.50	0.60			21.10	2.30
20	Nagaland				19.30		2.80			25.00	1.40			20.90	4.10
21	Orissa				39.20		135.50			25.90	17.70			37.00	153.20
22	Punjab				14.60		25.10			18.10	18.40			15.90	43.50
23	Rajasthan				26.40		133.80			19.90	33.20			24.80	167.00
24	Sikkim				15.50		0.70			5.00	0.10			13.10	0.80
25	Tamil Nadu				21.20		78.30			12.80	43.50			17.10	121.80
26	Tripura				19.80		5.40			10.00	0.90			17.40	6.30
27	Uttar Pradesh				39.40		600.60			31.70	137.30			37.70	737.90
28	Uttarakhand				14.90		10.30			25.20	7.50			18.00	17.90
29	West Bengal				28.80		177.80			22.00	62.50			26.70	240.30
30	A & N Islands				0.40		0.01			0.30	0.00			0.40	0.01
31	Chandigarh				10.30		0.03			9.20	0.92			9.20	0.95
32	Dadra & Nagar Haveli				55.90		1.02			17.70	25.00			39.10	1.27
33	Daman & Diu				34.20		0.22			33.00	0.54			33.30	0.75
34	Lakshadweep				22.20		0.03			1.70	0.01			6.80	0.04
35	Pondicherry				0.20		0.00			1.60	0.10			1.20	0.10
ALL INDIA			33.80	2782.11		20.90			764.70			29.80	3546.80
Note:
1		Population as on 1st March 2010 has been used for estimating number of persons below poverty line, (interpolated between 2001 and 2011 population census)
2		Poverty Line of Tamil Nadu is used for Andaman and Nicobar Island.
3		Urban Poverty Line of Punjab is used for both rural and urban areas of Chandigarh.
4		Poverty Line of Maharashtra is uesed for Dadra & Nagar Haveli.
5		Poverty Line of Goa is uesed for Daman & Diu
6		Poverty Line of Kerala is used for Lakshadweep.

Source PIB, August 8, 2012