How many families are there in the BPL category in Delhi?According to a report of the Economic survey 2023-24, 9.91 percent of the total population of delhi falls below the poverty line (BPL). This survey is of the year 2011-12. This means that about 15 lakh people in the capital are BPL card holders. The share of women in this number may be even less than this.In this way, if the BPL category is kept as a condition in the Mahila Samridhi Yojana, then it is obvious that it will have a direct impact on the total expenditure on the scheme.How many BPL families are there in delhi compared to other states?According to the National Sample survey (NSS) report of the year 2011-12, the percentage of BPL families in delhi is much lower than other states. According to this report, the proportion of people living below the poverty line is very high in states like bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, odisha and Assam, inwhich this figure reaches 33% in bihar and 37% in Madhya Pradesh. At the same time, this figure is 9.91% in delhi, which is much lower than the national average and shows that delhi has less than half the people in BPL as compared to other states.Would the cost have increased if there was no BPL rule?If this scheme was not implemented on the basis of BPL and it was for all women, then the bjp government would have had to spend a lot more on it.
