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9.Learned Advocate General further submitted that for effective implementation of the Scheme, a Monitoring Committee has also been constituted.

He further submitted that NITI Aayog publications based on various Committee Reports, viz., Suresh D.Tendulkar Committee, NSSO Data, RBI Reports, have arrived at poverty estimates, based on the certain criteria like consumption and expenditure pattern of the sample households etc. He further submitted that the reports enclosed in the typed set of papers filed by the petitioner are of the year 2009, 2010 and 2011 respectively and whereas, Government of Tamil Nadu through the Participatory Identification of Poor (PIP) under rural livelihood programmes, have taken Rs.24,000/- to Rs.50,000/- annual income of the family, as the basis for identifying families under the below poverty line. According to him, enumeration is done, after following a thorough procedure and there are records to authenticate the same. Learned Advocate General further submitted that 60 lakh families estimated to be provided for "Special Financial Assistance" is not inflated and proper survey of identification, has been done, as explained supra. The money to be distributed would be deposited in the bank account of the families, enumerated as below poverty line.

NITI Aayog Publications based on various Committee Reports like Suresh D. Tendulkar Committee, NSSO Data, RBI Reports have arrived at the Poverty Estimates based on certain criteria like Consumption and Expenditure pattern of the sample households, etc. Therefore, the details of Poor families have been gathered by the Government agencies through various surveys designed for implementing the welfare programmes and livelihood programmes for the poor. Hence the Government proposes to utilise only those household wise data, already made available through survey done with community participation in rural areas and with the designed parameters in urban areas carried out from time to time.