New Delhi: The highest earning member in about three-fourths of all rural households in the country made less than Rs 5,000 per month, according to the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 released today.
As per the Census data, there were 13.34 crore or 74.49 per cent households where "monthly income of highest earning household member" was below Rs 5,000 a month.
There were only 1.48 crore or 8.29 per cent of rural households where the monthly income of such member was Rs 10,000 or more.
Of these, 5.02 per cent were in government jobs, 1.12 per cent were employed in public sector and the remaining 3.58 per cent in private sector, the data said.
Of the total 24.39 crore households in the country, 17.91 crore are in rural India.
"SECC data would have meaningful use in housing for all, education and skills thrust, MGNREGA, National Food Security Act, interventions for differently-abled, interventions for women-led households, and targeting of households/individual entitlements on evidence of deprivation, etc," it added.
As per the Census data, there were 13.34 crore or 74.49 per cent households where "monthly income of highest earning household member" was below Rs 5,000 a month.
There were only 1.48 crore or 8.29 per cent of rural households where the monthly income of such member was Rs 10,000 or more.
Of these, 5.02 per cent were in government jobs, 1.12 per cent were employed in public sector and the remaining 3.58 per cent in private sector, the data said.
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Of the total 24.39 crore households in the country, 17.91 crore are in rural India.
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"SECC data would have meaningful use in housing for all, education and skills thrust, MGNREGA, National Food Security Act, interventions for differently-abled, interventions for women-led households, and targeting of households/individual entitlements on evidence of deprivation, etc," it added.
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