National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO)

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding large scale felling of toddy yielding palm trees in Bihar, 05/06/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …

Rural Indians survive on 43 rupees a day: Survey

The average household in rural India spends just 43 rupees (77 US cents) per head a day, with their urban equivalents consuming almost double, according to new government data. The latest study from the National Sample Survey Office, a huge undertaking every two years, shows that average monthly per capita …

Objections raised over Food Security Bill

LUCKNOW: Objections have been raised over the inadequacy of the proposed National Food Security Bill which is proposed by the UPA government. The bill pertaining to distribution of food ignores vital aspects such as food production and clean water and sanitation. Suman Sahai, genetic scientist and chief worker of Gene …

NSSO survey to focus on hygiene and sanitation

Hygiene and sanitation will be the focus of the next round of sample survey across the country that will begin on July 1. K.P. Unnikrishnan, Deputy Director-General, National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), South zone, said here on Monday that source and availability of drinking water and housing conditions too would …

NSSO's 69th round of survey from July 1

LUCKNOW: The National Sample Survey Office, Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India will be conducting a survey on drinking water, sanitation, hygiene, housing condition and urban slums from the selected households/slums during its 69th round of survey to be conducted from July 1 to December 31. …

NSSO to survey indebtedness of farmers in 70th round

Information on the situation of farmers in the country will be collected as part of the 70th round of the National Sample Survey, to be conducted by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) from January 2013. “The 70th round of National Sample Survey , starting from January 2013 that will …

Gujarat leads country in urban fat intake

Per Capita Daily Consumption In State Is 65.9 Grams Against National Average Of 47.9 Gandhinagar: An authoritative report, prepared by the National Sample Survey (NSS), has revealed that per capita consumption of fat among Gujaratis has been significantly increasing over the years. However, one witnesses a reverse trend in protein …

Socio-eco survey to cover 424 villages, 168 blocks

Bhubaneswar: The National Sample Survey (NSS) set up in 1950 by the Centre to collect socio-economic data employing scientific sampling methods, will start its 69th round from July 1. The survey will continue up to December 31 covering 9, 428 villages and 7, 684 urban blocks in the country. In …

Don’t Fear Transgenic Crops

A ban on the use of crops with transgenic traits is unscientific and India needs new technologies to raise farm yields Science and technology hold the key to developing low-input, high-output agriculture. The challenge is to use new technologies creatively and to make evidence-based decisions on the deployment of new …

Shared Prosperity

Anew expert panel to identify the poor has been tasked with reviewing whether and how other criteria can be combined with the consumption basket. Though the focus remains on methodological issues, there is a real opportunity for a long overdue shift in the poverty debate from Garibi Hatao, aam aadmi …

Rangarajan heads experts panel on poverty line review

The government on Thursday set up an expert technical group headed by Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) Chairman C. Rangarajan to review the Tendulkar Committee methodology for estimating poverty and overhaul the norms in keeping with the present-day prices. The move follows all-round criticism of the Planning Commission's estimates …

Report: 60% of rural India live on less than Rs 35 a day

The statistics pertaining to income and expenditures of the citizens presented by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) on Thursday has revealed that food accounted for about 57 per cent of the value of the average rural Indian household consumption during 2009-10 whereas it was 44 per cent in cities. …

In rural India, 60% live on < Rs 35

New Delhi About 60 per cent of India's rural population lives on less than Rs 35 a day and nearly as many in cities live on Rs 66 a day, reveals a government survey on income and expenditure. "In terms of average per capita daily expenditure, it comes out to …

New methods needed to answer old controversy in poverty measurement

The professional divide on Tendulkar’s estimation goes a long way back A committee is being set up to devise yet another methodology to estimate poverty in India. The step has led to some unhappiness among economists and experts that it amounts to junking the services and competence of an expert …

A Poverty Of Ideas

Why Montek Singh Ahluwalia is at the receiving end whenever he puts out any figures on poverty reduction Suresh Tendulkar died in June last year. But even when he was alive, he was rarely attacked by politicians for his work on calculating poverty. Strangely, the person who ends up getting …

Poverty level goes down in Sikkim

Gangtok: The poverty level in Sikkim has gone down with 80,000 people now living below poverty line, according to the new official estimates for 2009-2010 released by the Planning Commission. While in 2004-2005, poverty level in Sikkim stood at 30.9 per cent with 1,70,000 people living under BPL, in the …

Govt defends poverty estimates

Plan panel, though, concedes that inequalities did rise marginally after 2004-05 Faced with criticism from opposition parties and civil society on its poverty estimates, the Planning Commission on Tuesday defended its calculations, albeit pointing to “serious” discrepancy in data on consumption expenditure. It, however, said high economic growth rates were …

Poverty Cutoff Low Due to NSSO Data

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Tuesday blamed faulty data provided by NSSO for the low poverty threshold in the country. The poverty line for 2009-10 has been pegged at Rs 29 per day per capita expenditure for urban population and at Rs 22 per day per person …

‘Climate change is key concern’

The importance of sustainable development and climate change have been put into sharp focus in the latest Economic Survey 2011-12. The Economic Survey lays special emphasis on the development of a green economy. An important step in this direction is being taken by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation …

Delhi earns more, spends more than rest of country: Survey

Delhi residents are ahead of the others in terms of earning and spending, says a new government survey. At nearly Rs 1.16 lakh, the average annual per capita income of Delhiites is the highest in the country, and at Rs 33,732, the annual per capita expenditure too is the highest, …

Problems with the Food Bill

Instead of subsidising food grains directly, policy should increase people’s purchasing power While some may view the food security Bill as the instrument of combating poverty, this distinction belongs to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the flagship anti-poverty programme of the United Progressive Alliance government. The proponents of the …

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