Study of food security in rural assam are food based welfare programmes doing enough

Abstract

The poverty literature in India shows that the eastern region comprising Assam Bihar Odisha and West Bengal have had the lowest growth rate in average per capita consumption expenditure and decline in poverty ratios since the 1990s Direct and indirect estimates of poverty show rural Assam as being one of the poorest states of India 36 4 per cent and 87 5 per cent respectively in 2003 04 The official head count ratio of poverty for Assam stagnated in the period of 1990s and increased in th