SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CASTE CENSUS 2011

1. SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CASTE CENSUS 2011

2. Background • A committee under chairpersonship of Dr. N C. Saxena appointed to suggest methodology for BPL identification in August, 2008 • Committee submitted its report in September, 2009. • A Pilot study conducted in September, 2010 to test and validate parameters • Based upon these validations and after discussion of the results of the pilot study with experts and in consultation with the State Governments these parameters have been finalized.

3. Rural Households classified in three steps First, a set of Households are EXCLUDED Second, a set of households are compulsorily INCLUDED Third, remaining households are RANKED as per the number of deprivation indicators Methodology Proposed for Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011

4. Households owning Motorized Two/Three/Four Wheelers/Fishing boats (which require registration) Mechanized Three/ Four wheeler agricultural equipment such as tractors, harvesters etc. Kisan Credit Card with the credit limit of Rs.50,000 and above Households with any member as Government Employee: gazetted/ non-gazetted/ central/ state government/ PSU Government-aided autonomous bodies and local bodies. It does not incluse honorarium based workers like ASHA, Anganwadi workers Proposed Automatic Exclusion Criteria

5. Households with non-agricultural enterprise registered with the Government Any member in the family earning more than Rs. 10,000 per month Paying income tax or professional tax Households with three or more rooms with all rooms having pucca walls and pucca roof Households owning Refrigerator Households owning landline phones Proposed Automatic Exclusion Criteria

6. Proposed Automatic Exclusion Criteria 11. Households owning • 2.5 acres or more irrigated land with at least one irrigation equipment such as diesel/ electric operated bore well/ tubewell; • 5 acres or more land irrigated for two or more crop seasons; • 7.5 acres or more land with at least one irrigation equipment such as diesel/ electric operated borewell / tubewell

7. Households without shelter Destitute/living on alms Manual scavengers Primitive Tribal Groups Legally released bonded labourers Proposed Automatic Inclusion Criteria

8. Households with only one room with kachcha walls and kachcha roof Households with no adult member between age 16 to 59 Female headed households with no adult male member between age 16 to 59 Households with any disabled member and no able bodied adult member SC/ST households Households with no literate adult above 25 years Landless households deriving the major part of their income from manual casual labour Ranking of Remaining Households using Deprivation Indicators

9. Percentage of HHs with Deprivation Scores(estimates as per pilot)

10. Household under automatic inclusion have highest priority Deprivation indicators vary from 0 to 7. The order of priority for inclusion of households in the BPL list would be from largest number of deprivations to smallest number of deprivations. For the purpose of coverage under welfare schemes of the Government, households eligible for compulsory inclusion will have highest priority, followed by households with higher deprivation scores. Proposed Inclusion Priority

11. For such welfare programme where universal coverage is not permissible, the system would be capable of generating a ranking of priority household till poverty caps prescribed by the Planning Commission are attained. The deprivation cut-off will be chosen in such a manner that the total percentage of households will be less than or equal to the cut-off poverty ratio prescribed by the Planning Commission. The deprivation cut-offs would be assigned after the census has been completed based on actual data and these would vary from state to state. Proposed Inclusion Priority

12. The difference in the number of households prescribed by Planning Commission and arrived at by deprivation cut-off method, if any, will be identified by permitting households with one less deprivation than deprivation cut-off from Panchayats which have highest percentage of SC/ST population in the State arranged seriatim in decreasing order of percentage of SC/ST population. This method can be used to arrive at any cut-off as required. Proposed Inclusion Priority

13. Respondent based canvassing method for the Census. Enumerator will visit every household and canvass the questionnaire. Responses of the persons noted without any verification. No proof of document asked from the respondents. Proposed Methodology for Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011

14. Census approach will be followed. Enumeration Block of Population Census will be units for this Census as well. The Collectors/DMs would be in charge in their respective jurisdictions. Services of Tehsildars/BDO at the sub-district level and the revenue/development machinery below them would be requisitioned. Enumerators would be appointed at the local level. Enumerators would be selected by the State Governments from Patwaries, Panchayat Secretaries, Asha workers, municipal workers and postal workers etc. Administrative set-up 14

15. Proposed Methodology for Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 • A team of two persons – enumerators and Data Entry Operator, provided by Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), visits each household • Enumerator asks the questions; data entry operator enters the responses into a Tablet PC. • Acknowledgement slips issued to each household after the enumeration. • Enumerators notes in case he finds the information prima facie incorrect • Supervisor checks the discrepancies • The information would be verified by Gram Sabha

16. Proposed Methodology for Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 • Draft list containing information to be published at prominent places • Claims and objection to be invited and disposed of by the officers appointed for this purpose. • After disposal of claims and objections, final information to be published and uploaded on the web site • Identification of BPL families to be done out of this list as per norms and ceiling

17. Management Information System (MIS) will be developed to facilitate use of database of Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 by Central Ministries/State Governments. National Informatics Centre (NIC), which has been working with the MoRD for several years and is engaged in developing Management of Information System (MIS) for almost all its programmes, will develop an MIS for the management of the database of Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 and to facilitate its subsequent use by the programme divisions, other Ministries and State Governments for their own requirements. Management Information System (MIS)

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