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PATNA: Nearly a crore of families in Bihar, about a third of the total, are making ends meet at an income of a meagre Rs 200 or less per day, revealed the economic data of the state’s caste survey tabled in both houses of the legislature on Tuesday.
More than 94.4 lakh families live in poverty, with a monthly income Rs 6,000 or less. The state has a total of just under 2.8 crore families.Rs 6,000 a month translates to Rs 200 a day. Considering that the latestminimum wages for agriculture labour have been notified at Rs 376 per day, that’s equivalent to one member of the family being employed for barely 16 days a month at the minimum wage.
“Altogether 94,42,786 families can be considered ‘economically poor’ based on their total monthly income (from all sources) which is up to Rs 6,000 or less,” the survey report said. Another 81.9 lakh families (29.6%) have monthly incomes between Rs 6,000 and Rs 10,000, just under 50 lakh families (18%) have incomes between Rs 10,000 and Rs 20,000, and 27.2 lakh (9.8%) earn between Rs 20,000 and Rs 50,000. A mere 10.8 lakh families (3.9%) have monthly incomes of more than Rs 50,000.
Interestingly, almost 12.4 lakh families (4.5%) preferred not to reveal their monthly income to the surveyors, the data of the caste survey revealed. Among Birhor, one of the scheduled tribes (STs), 78% of families are poor, the highest proportion, followed by Chero (59.6%), Sauria Pahariya (56.5%) and Banjara (55.6%).
Among the scheduled castes, Musahar, to which former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi belongs, had the highest proportion of families being poor (54.5%), followed by Bhuiyan (53.5%) and Dom (53.1%)
The Musahar caste has a total of 8.7 lakh families across the state. Of them, 4.8 lakh fall under the category of economically poor.
As per the survey, Bihar has 215 castes. Altogether nearly 13.1 crore people were covered in the survey.
Speaking in the assembly after tabling of the caste survey report on Tuesday, CM Nitish Kumar said his government was planning to provide an assistance of Rs 2 lakh each to these 94.4 lakh families for taking up some form of job.
More than 94.4 lakh families live in poverty, with a monthly income Rs 6,000 or less. The state has a total of just under 2.8 crore families.Rs 6,000 a month translates to Rs 200 a day. Considering that the latestminimum wages for agriculture labour have been notified at Rs 376 per day, that’s equivalent to one member of the family being employed for barely 16 days a month at the minimum wage.
“Altogether 94,42,786 families can be considered ‘economically poor’ based on their total monthly income (from all sources) which is up to Rs 6,000 or less,” the survey report said. Another 81.9 lakh families (29.6%) have monthly incomes between Rs 6,000 and Rs 10,000, just under 50 lakh families (18%) have incomes between Rs 10,000 and Rs 20,000, and 27.2 lakh (9.8%) earn between Rs 20,000 and Rs 50,000. A mere 10.8 lakh families (3.9%) have monthly incomes of more than Rs 50,000.
Interestingly, almost 12.4 lakh families (4.5%) preferred not to reveal their monthly income to the surveyors, the data of the caste survey revealed. Among Birhor, one of the scheduled tribes (STs), 78% of families are poor, the highest proportion, followed by Chero (59.6%), Sauria Pahariya (56.5%) and Banjara (55.6%).
Among the scheduled castes, Musahar, to which former CM Jitan Ram Manjhi belongs, had the highest proportion of families being poor (54.5%), followed by Bhuiyan (53.5%) and Dom (53.1%)
The Musahar caste has a total of 8.7 lakh families across the state. Of them, 4.8 lakh fall under the category of economically poor.
As per the survey, Bihar has 215 castes. Altogether nearly 13.1 crore people were covered in the survey.
Speaking in the assembly after tabling of the caste survey report on Tuesday, CM Nitish Kumar said his government was planning to provide an assistance of Rs 2 lakh each to these 94.4 lakh families for taking up some form of job.
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