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Panel asks government to speed up poverty
survey
Friday May 18, 2012 06:32:49 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
A parliamentary panel has expressed concern that the
Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC), which was to end in 2011,
is yet to start in major states, and has asked the government to
complete the identification of poor at the earliest.
According to the parliamentary standing committee on food, public
distribution and consumer affairs, which submitted its report
Friday, the Rural Development Ministry started SECC from Tripura
in 2011.
Observing that states are responsible to identify the number of
poor, the panel said the survey of the Ministry of Housing and
Urban Poverty Alleviation to identify the poor in urban areas too
had also got delayed.
It is important to know of poor to ensure that over Rs.80,000
crore spent by the central government annually on various welfare
schemes reaches the genuine beneficiaries.
This count is also important to decide the number of beneficiaries
of the proposed National food Security Bill.
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