Per capita income in the country rose

to over Rs 54,000 in 2010-11 from Rs 18,450 in 2001-02, Parliament

was informed today.

"The per capita income at current prices has registered an annual

average growth rate of about 12.8 per cent during the (2001-02 to

2010-11) period," Minister of State for Planning Ashwani Kumar said

in a written reply to Rajya Sabha.

He said the per capita as measured by net national income stood

at an advance estimate of Rs 54,527 in 2010-11, up from estimate

of Rs 46,492 in 2009-10.

Kumar said the Central Statistical Organisation has been compiling

estimates of rural and urban income of the economy.

"The prices of household use commodities, measured by Consumer

Price Index of Agricultural Labourers (CPI-AL) for rural areas and

Consumer Price Index of Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) have increased

by 6.7 per cent and 6.6 per cent, respectively, on average per year

during the period 2000-2010," the minister said.

In reply to another question in Rajya Sabha, Kumar said that

the Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011, conducted to determine

beneficiaries of government schemes, is following certain parameters

for inclusion and exclusion of citizens for such programmes.

Households owning motorised vehicles or fishing boats, mechanised

three/four wheeler agriculture equipments or holding Kisan Credit

Card with a credit limit of Rs 50,000 or above and households with

any government employees would be automatically excluded.

On the other hand, households without shelter, destitutes or

those living on alms, manual scavengers, primitive tribal groups

and legally released bonded labourers would be automatically included

in the list of beneficiaries under SECC 2011