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| 7 districts out of 22 in J&K poor: says survey | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 26: While the overall Below Poverty Line (BPL) population in Jammu and Kashmir has show a downward trend in past over a decade, but still 7 districts out of 22 districts in the state fall in ‘poor category’, with 40 percent of the BPL population in the state living in these areas.
Among the poor include the three newly created districts of Reasi, Ramban and Kishtwar which were carved out by the previous PDP-Congress coalition government in the state.
On the basis of BPL head count ratio and BPL household count ratio conducted by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, the seven poorest districts in the state are Reasi, Ramban, Kishtwar, Poonch, Kupwara, Kargil and Bandipora which have more than 30 percent (37.93 percent to 31.09 percent) estimated BPL population.
The survey says that 7 districts have 30-40 percent people below poverty line, 9 districts recorded 20-30 percent poverty and 5 districts recorded 10-20 percent poverty while 1 district recorded 0 to 10 percent poverty ratio.
The estimated poor population in the state has been recorded in newly carved out districts Reasi, with the indicator standing 1.04 lakh persons, Ramban, has 89 thousand poor people , Kishtwar at 80 thousand, Poonch has 1.35 lakh, Kupwara has estimated BPL population of 2.30 lakh.
Baramulla has total BPL population of 2.23 lakh, Kargil has 71 thousand.
According to the survey of the 24.21 lakh people who fall in below the poverty line, 22 lakh are from rural areas and while 2.21 lakh persons live in urban areas.
“We are watching a decline but it is too slow and it has been observed the rural areas particularly those in mountainous places are poor than those close to urban centers”, said a senior officer from, Economics and Statistics department.
He said that the study has revealed that newly carved out districts have higher BPL population percentage due to the remoteness from their erstwhile district headquarters resulting in slow development and are hence still rural in character.
However the good news for the planners is that there has been a continuous fall in the poor population in past over a decade (1993-2008). Figures say that the BPL percentage in the state in 1993-94 was 30.34 for rural, 9.18 for urban and combined total percentage of 25.17. It has now declined to 26.14 in rural, 7.96 in urban and 21.63 percent in 2007-08.
The fresh report which was conducted by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics after the previous report by the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) has puzzled everybody in the state, which had showed unprecedented decline in the poverty to the extent of 50 percent fall.
After the report was published, the then Finance Minister, Tariq Hameed Karra had ordered the fresh sample survey to know the exact position of the poor population in Jammu region, Kashmir valley and Ladhak.
The new report encompasses information on BPL population, Household, sex-ration, household size, literacy rate, religious break-up and social status.
Officials said that the fresh survey has been sent to the Planning commission and the central government and will greatly help the planners to draw new policies and plans to make efforts to mitigate the sufferings of the poor section of society in our state.
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