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| B2V-3 programme: Demand of excluding influential from BPL list is yet to be fulfilled | | While as many deserving poor people are excluded from the existing BPL lists across Jammu region, many influential persons have managed to get their names included in the list of poor in many villages | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 4: Even as the Government has started the third phase of Back to Village (B2V3) programme with much publicity, promises made during the first two phases are yet to be fulfilled.
During the first two phases of B2V programme villagers had raised the demand for re-verification of the Below Poverty Line (BPL) lists but the same demand is yet to be fulfilled.
There is anger among villagers that their demand of including genuine poor families in the BPL list is yet not fulfilled by the authorities thus many deserving poor families are being deprived of many welfare programmes launched by them by the Centre.
Although villagers had listed a number of problems being faced by them, their main demand during the first two phases of the B2V programme was conduct of a fresh survey to include genuine families in the BPL list.
It is believed that many deserving people were left out in 2011 when the BPL list was prepared. So people have reasons to raise the issue at every platform. Giving benefits of the schemes meant for BPL families to deserving people was a big issue in the rural areas.
In the Jammu region, there are hundreds of needy families, which should be included in the existing BPL list, but they have been left out due to the callous approach of authorities at the time of making the BPL list.
Notable discrepancies were exposed when the names of two former MLAs, who are millionaires, figured in the BPL lists of their respective areas two years ago.
Successive governments, from time to time, have admitted that there are discrepancies in the BPL list, but nothing concrete has been done so far to rectify the flaws.
After the state government got repeated representations that a large number of influential persons had managed to get their names included in the BPL list, a re-verification process was started to exclude them, but to no avail.
• An order was issued on September 6, 2011, to conduct a socio-economic caste census in accordance with the guidelines issued by the Union Ministry for Rural Development. Even after the completion of the process, a large number of influential people have managed to get their names included in the BPL category while many deserving people have been left out.
• The last Economic Report had mentioned that nearly 10.35 per cent of the population falls under the BPL category in Jammu and Kashmir, with the rural areas having more poverty than the urban areas.
• The proportion of the population living below the poverty line in rural and urban areas has been estimated at 11.54% and 7.20%, respectively, while the population living below the poverty line is 10.35%. |
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