Incidence of Urban poverty in Guntur Municipal Corporation of Andhra Pradesh- An Empirical study

International Journal of Economics and Management Studies

© 2020 by SSRG - IJEMS Journal

Volume 7 Issue 10

Year of Publication : 2020

Authors : P.Bharathi Devi, Dr.A.K.V.S.S.R.Rajasekhar

10.14445/23939125/IJEMS-V7I10P117

How to Cite?

P.Bharathi Devi, Dr.A.K.V.S.S.R.Rajasekhar, "Incidence of Urban poverty in Guntur Municipal Corporation of Andhra Pradesh- An Empirical study," SSRG International Journal of Economics and Management Studies, vol. 7,  no. 10, pp. 109-112, 2020. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23939125/IJEMS-V7I10P117

Abstract:

This paper's main objective is to analyze the urban poverty in India and the state of Andhra Pradesh and analyze situation poverty in the selected households in Guntur Municipal Corporation. The paper is based on secondary data and primary data. Secondary data is collected from government reports, journals, and books. The primary data collected from the selected sample respondent in Guntur Municipal Corporation in Andhra Pradesh. 100 sample respondents were selected from the Guntur municipal corporation through a simple random sampling method. The paper concluded that the occupation wise persons living below the poverty line worked out based on income as per the Expert Group Criterion. The fifty percent of State per-capita income considered poverty line is Rs.75,586/-. The intra caste category and region analysis observed a slight variation among the two regions' caste categories. Nearly 21 percent, 36.43 percent of beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries live below the poverty line in Guntur Municipal corporation. And above 50 percent of service and artesian is live below the poverty line in both beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries followed by above 53 percent of transport, and 50 percent of manufacturing occupation respondents live below the poverty line in the study area.

Keywords:

Guntur, Income, Occupation Poverty, Statistics

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