Poverty Alleviation: Chhattisgarh

Department of Panchayat & Rural Development

Govt. of Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh at a glance

State Created On 1st Nov 2000

Districts 27

Blocks 146

GPs 10,971

SC+ST population 43.44%

Inhabited villages 19567

Forest area 44%

Electrified villages 94%

Road Density 56.03 km

GDP growth Ser 15-16 7.07%

Fiscal deficit (16-17) 1564.40 Cr.

(2.88%)

Human development Indicators

Indicators Chhattisgarh India Difference

Poverty (2011-12) 40% 22% 18

IMR (SRS - 2014) 46 40 6

MMR (SRS - 2009-12) 221 167 54

Literacy Rate (Census 2011)

70% 74% 4

Birth Rate 24 21 3

Death Rate 7.9 7 0.9

Child Malnutrition 48 40 8

Sex Ratio 991 943 48

Sex Ratio (0-6 years) 969 919 50

Chhattisgarh: Poverty

Source Status

Dr. Tendulkar Committee

2011-12

39.9 %

(Rural 44.6%, Urban 24.8%),

Dr. C. Rangarajan

Committee 2011-12

47.9 %

(Rural 49.2%, Urban 43.7%)

One of the state with high poverty

Agro climatic Zone and Irrigation Facility

28%- 7 dist R-1468 mm NCA-14% 5% irrigated

51%-15 dist R-1245 mm NCA-70% 43 % irrigated

21%-5 dist R-1510 NCA-18% 11%-irrigated

80% HH dependent on Agriculture and 76% small and marginal farmers

Out of total 137.9 lakh hect Net Cropped Area is 46.8 lakh hect.

31% area irrigated.

10.12 lakh hect double cropped.

65% irrigation from sources dependent on rain

Irrigation break up

Canal 61 %

Ponds 2.90%

Well 1.37%

Tube well and others 34.73%

Area under irrigation (in %)

Rural Poverty Situation of the State

14 Districts affected from LWE overlapped with low HDI ranked districts

SECC 2011

Automatic Inclusion

Total household (rural) 45,40,999

Automatically included HHs

WITHOUT SHELTER 7,083

DESTITUTES/LIVING ON ALMS 23,894

PRIMITIVE TRIBE GROUP 81,636

LEGALLY RELEASED BUOUNDED LABOURS 158

HH MANUAL SCAVENGERS 03

Total Automatically included categories 1,12,084

S No. Indicaters No. of Family

1Households owning motorized two/three/four

wheelers/fishing boat493940

2Households owning mechanized three/four wheeler

agricultural equipments52991

3Households having kisan credit card with the credit

limit of Rs.50,000 and above 99072

4Households with any member as government

employee 198268

5Households with non-agricultural enterprises

registered with government25984

6Households with any member earning more than Rs.

10,000 p.m 145294

7 Households paying income tax 81909

8 Households paying professional tax 81909

9Households with three or more rooms with pucca

walls and pucca roof279212

10 Households owning refrigerator 149420

11 Households owning landline phones 30415

12Households owning 2.5 acres or more irrigated land

with at least one irrigation equipment 71674

13Household owning 5 acres or more land irrigated for

two or more crop seasons 40120

14Households owning 7.5 acres or more land with at

least one irrigation equipment51298

15 Atleast 1 exclusion criteria (18.05%) 819609

Automatic Exclusion criteria

Only one room with kucha walls and kucha roof 13,14,420

No adult member between age 16 to 59 2,93,609

Female headed households with no adult male

member aged 16 to

3,08,440

Disabled member and no able bodied adult

member

36,889

SC/ST households 19,12,192

No literate adult above 25 years 15,38,616

Landless households deriving major part of

their income from manual casual labour

15,43,648

No. of Deprived Households with deprivation criteria

No. of HHs having Exactly 1 deprivation 10,06,602

Exactly 2 deprivation 11,11,148

Exactly 3 deprivation 6,66,087

Exactly 4 deprivation 2,82,851

Exactly 5 deprivation 88,021

Exactly 6 deprivation 23,180

Exactly 7 deprivation 1,438

No of Deprived Households with:

Automatic inclusions: 1,12,084

Four or above deprivation criteria 3,95,490

Three or above deprivation criteria 10,61,577

Two or above deprivation criteria 21,72,725

Focus Household : (No.)

No. Of Family in Direct Exclusion Criteria 8,19,609 (18.05%)

No Of Family in Direct Inclusion Criteria 1,12,084 (2.47%)

No Of Family Consider for Deprivation Criteria 36,09,306

No. Of Family Under Automatic inclusion+ up to Four

Deprivation Criteria (7+6+5+4)5,70,574 (11.18%)

No. Of Family Under Automatic inclusion+ up to Three

Deprivation Criteria (7+6+5+4+3)11,73,661 (25.85%)

No. Of Family Under Automatic inclusion+ up to Two

Deprivation Criteria (7+6+5+4+3+2)22,84,809 (50.32%)

No. Of Family Under Automatic inclusion+ with all Seven

Deprivation Criteria (7+6+5+4+3+2+1)32,91,411 (72.48%)

SUMMARY

1. Increase Net Cropped Area & Productivity

2. Increase in area under irrigation

3. Crop diversification

4. Legalize Share Cropping

5. Increase contribution of Agri. Allied sector

6. Support Price for more MFPs &value addition

7. Access to Banking services in rural/ remote areas

Recommendation

Recommendation

8. Skill upgradation

9. Quality and Vocational Education

10. Residential schools

11. Improved water, sanitation and nutrition

(households & Institutional).

12. Universalization of health facilities

13. Flexibility in IAY,5% with Dist Admin

14. Infrastructure Development in the LWE areas

Contd.

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