BPL People in Cities

The Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that as per the Tendulkar Committee Estimates of Poverty, the estimated number of urban people living below poverty line is 807.60 lakhs. The national poverty line for urban areas at 2004-05 is Rs. 578.80 per capita per month. At the daily rate the figure comes to Rs. 19.29.

In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today she said, State-wise number of homeless people and the people dwelling in slums in the country are at Annexure I & II respectively. The Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation is implementing scheme of Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) aimed at to provide gainful employment to the urban unemployed and under-employed poor, through encouraging the setting up of self employment ventures by the urban poor living below the poverty line, skills training and also through providing wage employment by utilizing their labour for construction of socially and economically useful public assets. Also, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (Basic Services to the Urban Poor and Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme components), aimed at providing basic amenities and affordable to the urban poor, especially slum dwellers is being implemented since December, 2005.

The Minister said, the Government has recently launched a new scheme called Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) for the slum dwellers and the urban poor. This scheme aims at providing support to States that are willing to provide property rights to slum dwellers.

Annexure-I

                                                   Homeless Population in India-2001

States/                                 Union Territories	Houseless Population
	Total	Rural	% age	Urban	% age
Andhra Pradesh	163,938	97,101	59	66,837	41
Arunachal Pradesh	442	360	81	82	19
Assam	13,355	10,989	82	2,366	18
Bihar	42,498	29,768	70	12,730	30
Chhattisgarh	28,772	22,558	78	6,214	22
Goa	5,280	2,991	57	2,289	43
Gujarat	220,786	148,691	67	72,095	33
Haryana	59,360	35,384	60	23,976	40
Himachal Pradesh	8,364	7,047	84	1,317	16
Jammu & Kashmir	12,751	10,129	79	2,622	21
Jharkhand	10,887	6,998	64	3,889	36
Karnataka	102,226	61,898	61	40,328	39
Kerala	16,533	9,096	55	7,437	45
Madhya Pradesh	231,246	169,376	73	61,870	27
Maharashtra	340,924	236,412	69	104,512	31
Manipur	2,897	2,525	87	372	13
Meghalaya	1,827	1,644	90	183	10
Mizoram	336	73	22	263	78
Nagaland	2,002	1,254	63	748	37
Orissa	42,871	31,039	72	11,832	28
Punjab	46,958	23,549	50	23,409	50
Rajasthan	143,497	87,866	61	55,631	39
Sikkim	286	228	80	58	20
Tamilnadu	86,472	29,344	34	57,128	66
Tripura	857	670	78	187	22
Uttar Pradesh	201,029	104,387	52	96,642	48
Uttaranchal	14,703	10,768	73	3,935	27
West Bengal	110,535	19,726	18	90,809	82
Andaman & N Islands	242	78	32	164	68
Chandigarh	2,722	41	2	2,681	98
Dadra & Nagar Haveli	1,471	1,261	86	210	14
Daman & Diu	1,071	659	62	412	38
Delhi	24,966	1,063	4	23,903	96
Lakshadweep	0	0	-	0	-
Pondicherry	1,662	194	12	1,468	88
India	1,943,766	1,165,167	60	778,599	40

Source: Census of India-2001

Annexure-II

State-wise Estimated Slum Population in 2001

State/UT	Slum  population
A & N Islands	20303
Andhra Pradesh	7254399
Arunachal Pradesh	56538
Assam	805701
Bihar	1422155
Chandigarh	208057
Chhattisgarh	1578285
Dadar & Nagar Haveli	7653
Daman & Diu	7420
Delhi	2318635
Goa	100365
Gujarat	3708127
Haryana	2350269
Himachal Pradesh	69310
Jammu & Kashmir	395696
Jharkhand	762025
Karnataka	2951441
Kerala	499498
Lakshadeep	1683
Madhya Pradesh	5107505
Maharashtra	14319132
Manipur	68967
Meghalaya	172223
Mizoram	87309
Nagaland	73523
Orissa	1401973
Puducherry	92495
Punjab	2164649
Rajasthan	3118120
Sikkim	9609
Tamil Nadu	7340271
Tripura	104281
Uttar Pradesh	8527840
Uttarakhand	638467
West Bengal	7520116
ALL INDIA	75264040

Source: Report of the Committee on Slum Statistics/ Census, Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation.