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9. POVERTY, EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT
Poverty
9.1 Poverty is a state where a person finds it unable to maintain a minimum socially accepted level of standard of living. It is regarded as the root cause for low levels of health and educational outcomes, poor access to clean water and sanitation, inadequate physical security, lack of voice, and insufficient capacity and opportunity for mobility. Poverty alleviation remained the central to all the state and central level policy making. The Five Year Plans in India had their focus directly or indirectly on reducing the poverty levels throughout. In India the Planning Commission has been deciding on the methodology and making estimates of the number and percentage of poor at national and state level. These poverty estimates are treated as official. On a comparable basis these official estimates are available for the years 1973-74, 1977-78, 1983, 1987-88, 1993-94 and 2004-05. As per the latest estimates of Planning Commission available for the year 2004-05, the poverty ratio for rural and urban areas of Andhra Pradesh were 11.20% and 28.00% respectively and that for the State as combined was 15.80%. The corresponding figures for All India during the same period were 28.30%, 25.70% for rural and urban areas and 27.50% for the Nation as combined. Annexure 9.1 depicts the percentage of people below the poverty line in Andhra Pradesh and at All India level for different time periods. As economy grows and per capita incomes rise, the poverty threshold indicating the minimum acceptable level of living need to be revised to reflect the changing consumption patterns in society. In 2005, the Planning Commission appointed an Expert Group to review alternate concepts of poverty and recommend necessary changes in the existing procedures of official estimation of poverty. The Expert Group 219 under the Chairmanship of Prof. Suresh D. Tendulkar submitted its report in November, 2009. The Expert Committee recommended using poverty
Poverty
9.1 Poverty is a state where a person finds it unable to maintain a minimum socially accepted level of standard of living. It is regarded as the root cause for low levels of health and educational outcomes, poor access to clean water and sanitation, inadequate physical security, lack of voice, and insufficient capacity and opportunity for mobility. Poverty alleviation remained the central to all the state and central level policy making. The Five Year Plans in India had their focus directly or indirectly on reducing the poverty levels throughout. In India the Planning Commission has been deciding on the methodology and making estimates of the number and percentage of poor at national and state level. These poverty estimates are treated as official. On a comparable basis these official estimates are available for the years 1973-74, 1977-78, 1983, 1987-88, 1993-94 and 2004-05. As per the latest estimates of Planning Commission available for the year 2004-05, the poverty ratio for rural and urban areas of Andhra Pradesh were 11.20% and 28.00% respectively and that for the State as combined was 15.80%. The corresponding figures for All India during the same period were 28.30%, 25.70% for rural and urban areas and 27.50% for the Nation as combined. Annexure 9.1 depicts the percentage of people below the poverty line in Andhra Pradesh and at All India level for different time periods. As economy grows and per capita incomes rise, the poverty threshold indicating the minimum acceptable level of living need to be revised to reflect the changing consumption patterns in society. In 2005, the Planning Commission appointed an Expert Group to review alternate concepts of poverty and recommend necessary changes in the existing procedures of official estimation of poverty. The Expert Group 219 under the Chairmanship of Prof. Suresh D. Tendulkar submitted its report in November, 2009. The Expert Committee recommended using poverty