poverty issues contd.. The Planning Commission constituted B.K. Chaturvedi Committee to look into the issue of restructuring of Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) which submitted its report in September 2011.The recommendations of the Committee, inter alia include 1.rationalizing the existing 147 CSS into 59; 2.providing flexibility in physical and financial norms of CSS to all States to enable State Governments to meet their special needs; 3.introducing Flexi Fund by earmarking 10% of budget allocation in all Flagship Schemes and 20% in other CSS, which could be used by the State Governments on sub-schemes or components of CSS for which guidelines should be notified by the concerned Ministries; 4.reforming procedure for transfer of funds to the States so as to gradually move over to transfers through the State budgets to ensure full accountability of States; 5.regular monitoring of CSS by concerned Ministry and Independent evaluation; and 6.creating an interactive website and authenticated database for sharing experiences of States. The Planning Commission estimates poverty from the large size sample survey on Household Consumer Expenditure carried out by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) after an interval of approximately five years. On the basis of data of two latest surveys, the percentage of people living below poverty line in the country has declined from 37.2% in 2004-05 to 29.8% in 2009-10. The World Bank estimate poverty in the member countries on the basis of the international poverty line in order to monitor progress in reducing poverty worldwide. As per the World Bank database, the Indian population living below International poverty line of U.S. $ 1.25 a day has declined from 41.6% in 2004-05 to 32.7% in 2009-10 As per the latest estimates of poverty for the year 2009-10, the population of Scheduled Tribes living below poverty line is 47.4% in rural areas and 30.4% in urban areas
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