Gujarat waiting for 3 years for guidelines on urban poor
TNN | Jan 2, 2019, 05:26 IST
Gujarat high court AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court has directed the central government to provide guidelines and parameters to the state government to ascertain who will be categorized as urban poor living below poverty line (BPL).
A bench of Acting Chief Justice A S Dave and Justice J B Pardiwala ordered last week for providing at the earliest the details of criteria for the purpose. Before the HC, the state government submitted that it had written to the Centre in September 2015 to give “guidelines/instructions for determination/identification of the urban poor”.
The secretary of ministry of housing & urban poverty alleviation was requested to provide the parameters for scoring pattern of deprivation/urban poor. This would help crystallize the list of urban poor so that benefits of various schemes can be extended to them. The state government submitted before the court that it was awaiting details from the Centre.
HC had ordered completion of survey
On Friday, the Centre’s counsel assured the court that the “needful shall be done in this regard at the earliest”. After recording the undertaking, the HC disposed the application filed by Congress leader Jawahar Chavda three years ago, when the survey of the poor in Junagadh town could not by undertaken for issuance of BPL cards.
In 2014, Congress leader Jawahar Chavda had filed a PIL in the Gujarat high court after he came to know that the state government had stalled the survey of the poor in Junagadh district.
The survey was undertaken for issuance of BPL cards.
Following the intervention by the high court, the survey work resumed.
The HC had ordered completion of survey and issuance of BPL cards to all those identified below the poverty line.
A year later, the petitioner approached the HC again by filing another application and complained that the survey was completed in rural areas, but it did not take place in urban area. The issue was pending before the HC since then.
Upon the HC’s query, the Centre promised that it would soon provide the guidelines for identification of people in the BPL category from urban area.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice A S Dave and Justice J B Pardiwala ordered last week for providing at the earliest the details of criteria for the purpose. Before the HC, the state government submitted that it had written to the Centre in September 2015 to give “guidelines/instructions for determination/identification of the urban poor”.
The secretary of ministry of housing & urban poverty alleviation was requested to provide the parameters for scoring pattern of deprivation/urban poor. This would help crystallize the list of urban poor so that benefits of various schemes can be extended to them. The state government submitted before the court that it was awaiting details from the Centre.
HC had ordered completion of survey
On Friday, the Centre’s counsel assured the court that the “needful shall be done in this regard at the earliest”. After recording the undertaking, the HC disposed the application filed by Congress leader Jawahar Chavda three years ago, when the survey of the poor in Junagadh town could not by undertaken for issuance of BPL cards.
In 2014, Congress leader Jawahar Chavda had filed a PIL in the Gujarat high court after he came to know that the state government had stalled the survey of the poor in Junagadh district.
The survey was undertaken for issuance of BPL cards.
Following the intervention by the high court, the survey work resumed.
The HC had ordered completion of survey and issuance of BPL cards to all those identified below the poverty line.
A year later, the petitioner approached the HC again by filing another application and complained that the survey was completed in rural areas, but it did not take place in urban area. The issue was pending before the HC since then.
Upon the HC’s query, the Centre promised that it would soon provide the guidelines for identification of people in the BPL category from urban area.
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