63% people in India’s Haryana state below poverty line

In a startling revelation, population of India’s Haryana state falling in the BPL (below poverty line) category is as high as 63 per cent.

The government of Haryana has come up with this number on the basis of family IDs or Parivar Pehchan Patras (PPPs).

As per the data of the Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, the state has a total of 1,80,93,475 BPL units (persons) on 44,90,017 BPL cards (families).

As per the PPP data, Haryana’s current population is 2.86 crore. It thus means nearly 63% of the state’s population falls in the BPL category.

The data says that Haryana’s Faridabad district tops the list with most number of BPL families, followed by Mewat, Hisar and Karnal.