40 pc population in BPL list
Bhopal, Apr 1: A staggering 40 per cent of the in Madhya population Pradesh is living below poverty line according to the new BPL list coming into effect from today, official sources said.
The earlier BPL list prepared in 1997-98, which was in force till yesterday, stood cancelled automatically, the sources said.
To ensure that the benefits of various welfare schemes reached poor families, the state government had finalised the new list on the basis of BPL survey conducted during 2003-03. ''Now 39.54 per cent of the population would be covered with the benefits of various government schemes,'' the sources said.
The new BPL list, which had already been brought out in all district panchayats and gram panchayats, would be available area-wise with all gram panchayats, block panchayats and district panchayats.
UNI