The recently-released data on states and their rankings based on their performance in reaching goals (SDG) seems to have missedTelanganas data on Percentage ofpopulationliving below thepoverty line(BPL).
The first SDG of ending POVERTY by 2030 had set the target of reducing the number of BPL people to 10.96 per cent but the report mentioned the states data as null. Experts pointed out that the state had actually progressed well in reaching its target.
Interestingly, Telangana is the only state in whose case this data is mentioned as null. The government has taken note of this and sources within the government said that while Centre had applied the Tendulkar Committees figures on poverty as baseline to talk about the numbers, it did not apply the same to Telangana. Telangana achieved 69 marks under this SDG even without BPL sub-parameter.
According to Tendulkar Committee estimates, 21.92 per cent of the Population was living below the Poverty Line in 2011-12. The target is to reduce the percentage of of poverty by half. Six states and seven UTs have already achieved the target of reducing poverty rates to below 10.96 per cent.