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| Govt orders recount of poor | | | Early Times report
Jammu, June 25: With different and strange perspectives of different departments on Below Poverty Line (BPL) population in Jammu and Kashmir, the government today took a significant and much needed decision of ordering fresh scrutiny of the poor in the state.
The statistics of BPL population and the management and dispensation of concessions and benefits for them have always been a big political agenda in Jammu and Kashmir resulting in loss to exchequer and at the same time denial of due services to the deserving needy.
To showcase its development profile, the state government puts the BPL population at an impressive low but two key departments have high figures on their records as major central funding depends on these figures. The department of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution and the department of Rural Development peg their schemes taking into account PBL population which is often roughly double that the figures officially claimed by the government. Latest statistics suggest state’s BPL population at around 21.5%.
With a view to determining the exact Below Poverty Line (BPL) population in the State of J&K and rectify the variations, which have arisen as a result of adoption of different figures by various departments the government today ordered joint scrutiny of registers to arrive at a logical conclusion.
According to an order of the General Administration Department (GAD)a committee of the officers of the Departments of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, Rural Development and Revenue will jointly scrutinize and reconcile the BPL lists as have been prepared by the Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution and Rural Development Departments.
In urban areas like Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils, Town Area Committees, Notified Area Committees etc, a joint verification will be conducted by a team of officers of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, Housing and Urban Development and Revenue Departments (to be nominated by the respective Administrative Secretaries) for the purpose. The team will use the existing BPL list of the CAPD as the basic data for verification.
Deputy Commissioners and Tehsildars will be the nodal authorities for canying out the re-verification within their respective jurisdictions.
The order further said that the beneficiaries who figure in both the lists (CAPD and Rural Development) will be retained as persons or households entitled to BPL related benefits and those appearing in any one of the lists only will be subjected to further verification by the Committees mentioned above.
According to a criteria adopted by Government of India’s Ministries of CAPD and Rural Development, households headed by widows or terminally ill persons or disabled persons or persons aged 60 years or more with no assured means of subsistence or societal support are considered living below the line of poverty.
Besides all primitive tribal households, landless agriculture labourers, marginal farmers, rural artisans, craftsmen such as potters, weavers, blacksmiths, carpenters, slum dwellers, and persons earning livelihood on daily basis in the informal sector like porters, coolies, rickshaw pullers, hand cart, pullers, fruit and flower sellers, snake charmers, rag pickers, destitute and other similar categories in both rural and urban areas will be considered among the BPLs.
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