 bill no  113 of  2018 the national poverty alleviation fund bill, 2018 by dr boora narsaiah goud, mp abillto provide for the constitution of the national poverty alleviation fund and for matters connected therewith or incidental theretobe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-ninth year of the republic of  india as follows:—1 (1) this act may be called the national poverty alleviation fund act, 2018short title  and extent(2) it extends to the whole of indiadefinitions5 2 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,—(a) "absolute poverty" means the condition of the household below the foodthreshold level;10(b) "basic sectors" means the disadvantaged sectors including farmers, artisans,workers in the formal sector and migrant workers, workers in the informal sector, women, persons with disabilities, senior citizens, victims of calamities and disasters, youth and students, children and urban poor;(c) "fund" means the national poverty alleviation fund constituted under section 3;5(d) "human development index" means the measure of performance of a country based on three outcomes of development namely, the state of health (measured by life expectancy at birth), the level of knowledge and skill (measured by a weighted average of adult literacy and enrollment rates) and the level of real income per capita, adjusted for poverty considerations as social indicators of the citizen's ability to lead a long and healthy life, to acquire knowledge and skills, and to have access to the resources needed to afford a decent standard of living highlihting;1021 of 1860(e) "non-governmental organizations" means any organization registered under societies registration act, 1860 focused on the upliftment of the basic sectors of society by providing advocacy, training, community organizing, research, access to resources, and other similar activities;(f) "poor person" means a person or a group of persons,—15(i) living below the national or regional poverty line prescribed by the central government or the state governments concerned, as the case may be, as per necessity, from time to time;(ii) marked backward on the basis of human development index; and (iii) excluded from the national development process on the grounds of particular gender or social group;20(g) "poverty alleviation" means the reduction of absolute poverty and relative poverty;(h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this act; (i) "relative poverty" means the gap between the rich and the poor;25(j) "self-help groups" means informal associations of people who choose to come together to find ways to improve their living conditions;(k) "social mobilization" means the process to eradicate poverty of particular group or community by increasing awareness and to enable them to participate in decision making process in organized or collective way and to build up their skill and capacity;30(1) "urban poor" means individuals or families residing in urban centers and urbanizing areas whose income or combined household income falls below the poverty threshold and/or cannot afford in a sustained manner to provide their minimum basic needs of food, health, education, housing and other essential amenities of life;35(m) "workers in the formal sector" means workers in registered business enterprises who sell their services in exchange for wages and other forms of compensation;40(n) "workers in the informal sector" means poor individuals who operate businesses that are very small in scale and are not registered with any national government agency, and to the workers in such enterprises who sell their services in exchange for subsistence level wages or other forms of compensation; and(o) "youth" means any person who has attained the age of fifteen years but has not attained the age of twenty-nine years453 (1) the central government shall, by notification in the official gazette, constitute a fund to be known as the national poverty alleviation fund for carrying out the purposes of this actconstitution of the national poverty alleviation fund(2) the central government and the state governments shall contribute to the fund in such proportion as may be prescribed50(3) such other sums as may be received by way of donation, contribution or assistance or otherwise shall also be credited to the fund4 (1) the central government shall set up a national poverty alleviation board for the purpose of administering the fund(2) the board shall consist of—(i) a chairperson, to be appointed by the central government;constitution of the national poverty alleviation board for administering the fund5(ii) one representative each of the union ministries of agriculture, labour, social justice and empowerment, rural development, women and child development and finance;(iii) one representative of the niti aayog; (iv) one representative of every state government;10(v) three members representing the non-governmental organisations,self-help groups and labour unions to be appointed by the central government in such manner as may be prescribed;(vi) the secretary of the union ministry of housing and urban affairs who shall be ex-officio secretary to the board;15(3) the central government shall provide to the board such number of officers and staff as may be required for its efficient functioning(4) the salary and allowances payable to and other terms and conditions of service of chairperson, members, officers and staff of the board shall be such as may be prescribedduties of the board5 (1) the board shall formulate policies and guidelines regarding welfare of the poor person, household or community20(2) the board shall utilize the fund for the following purposes:—(i) income generation, skill development, employment creation and production growth in different sectors such as agriculture, livestock, cottage and small industry based on local resources and raw materials;(ii) improving primary health and literacy;25(iii) imparting technical education, providing employment training for youth; (iv) providing small irrigation, facilities of drinking water, sanitation, rural road, rural energy and environment to render support for poverty alleviation as per necessity; and30(v) imparting training, organising seminar and field visit to build up thecapacity of the person, household, community institution and staffs involved through the medium of social mobilization for conducting poverty alleviation programmesurvey of poor persons356 (1) every state government and the union territory administration, as the case may be, shall conduct a district-wise survey, in such manner and with such details of all poor persons, household or community within their respective jurisdictions and cause the same to be published in such manner and form, as may be prescribed(2) any complaint or objection relating to inclusion or omission of name of any poor person, household or community shall be addressed to the district magistrate concerned who shall, after due inquiry, decide upon the rectification of the records(2) in particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for,—(a) the manner in which the fund may be applied; (b) the conditions governing the grant of loans or subsidy;5(c) the conditions governing grant-in-aid; (d) the standard of welfare measures and facilities to be provided out of the fund;10(3) every rule made under this act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each house of parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both the houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule statement of objects  and reasonspoverty refers to a situation when people are deprived of the basic necessities of lifeit is often characterized by inadequacy of food, shelter and clothes in other words, poverty refers to a state of privation where there is a lack of essential needs for subsistence many people in india do not get two square meals a day they do not have good dwelling units to live in their children do not get proper basic educationpoverty is a widespread condition in india since independence, poverty has been a concern of every successive government the percentage of persons below the poverty line in 2011-12 has been estimated as 257 per cent, in rural areas and 137 per cent, in urban areas india is home to twenty two per cent, of the world's poor persons two hundred and sixty million people in the country do not have income to access a consumption basket eradication of poverty would ensure a sustainable and inclusive growth of economy and societyit is necessary to uplift economic and social status of the poor persons, household or community through social mobilization to ensure their access to the basic services and facilities and to enable them to utilize it there is also a need to build up their capacity so that they can exercise their right and actively participate in the decision making process the need is also to do everything possible and within our limits to alleviate poverty from our country reduction of poverty in india is vital for the attainment of international goalsit is imperative to establish a fund for funding and implementation of various programmes related to poverty alleviation through active participation of poor and backward class of society and by providing grant and necessary assistance to the institutions involved in the activities for poverty alleviationhence this billnew delhi;boora narsaiah goudmarch 27, 2018 financial  memorandumclause 3 of the bill provides for the constitution of a national poverty alleviation fund to which the central and state governments shall contribute funds in such proportion as may be prescribed clause 4 provides for the constitution of a board to administer the fund clause 5 provides for the utilisation of fund for income generation, skill development, promotion of literacy etc clause 6 provides for conducting of district-wise survey of all the poor persons, households or community covered under poverty alleviation the expenditure relating to states shall be borne out of the consolidated funds of the respective states however, the expenditure in respect of union territories shall be borne out of the consolidated fund of india the bill, therefore, if enacted, would involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india it is estimated that an annual recurring expenditure of about rupees twenty thousand crore will be involveda non-recurring expenditure of about rupees twenty-five thousand crore is also likely to be involved memorandum  regarding  delegated  legislationclause 7 of the bill empowers the central government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of the bill as the rules will relate to matters of detail only, the delegation of legislative power is of a normal character———— a billto provide for the constitution of the national poverty alleviation fund and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto————mgipmrnd—294ls(s3)—10-07-2018