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.Patna,(BiharTimes): The Bihar government has opposed the manner in which fresh survey of people living below poverty line (BPL) would be undertaken by the Centre.
Deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday cited three reasons for the state government’s opposition to the BPL survey.
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Secondly, Modi said as per the Planning Commission suggestion the number of BPL should exceed only by five per cent compared to the last survey.
Modi, who is also the finance minister of the state, said the Bihar government does not accept this kind of embargo on any survey given the fact that the state government had, last time, questioned the serious discrepancies in the actual figure of BPL in the state.
It needs to be recalled that while the Planning Committee had put BPL population in Bihar at only 65 lakh the state government survey put the figure at about 1.4 crore families. Thirdly and lastly the state government has also expressed its inability to spare 52,000 of its employees to carry out the survey. Since the survey would start from December 2011, people in the state would be engaged in several other works.
Modi said that with the implementation of Right to Education, school teachers could not be spared for any work other than teaching. It would have been much better if the task would have been assigned to the Census Department of the Union government, he added.
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