• Georgi Mathew Varughese

Poverty as a multidimensional concept based on factors other than the per capita income or expenditure to estimate the number of poor along with its intensity. The multidimensional poverty index estimates the number and intensity of poverty in a place based on three main dimensions as a sum of ten indexes. Multi dimensional analysis of poverty is to specify a poverty line for each dimension of poverty and to consider that a person is poor if he or she falls below in anyone of these various lines. This paper estimates multidimensional poverty in Puramattom village in Pathanamthitta district by applying the UNDP methodology. Based on the primary sample data the results indicate in same direction of all other social indicators about the state of Kerala, such as the education standards, health standards, attainment of minimal social standards are keeping its higher standard. The subject under the study are BPL card holders. The procession of this BPL card enable them to seek all the services and facilities provided by the government for the welfare of the poor even though the actual or the multidimensionally poor are very less among them. It indicate the fact that the trickle down mechanism is working along with the misutilization of the welfare services by the state.

multi - dimensional poverty, BPL list, misutilization of government facilities

"A study on people below poverty line with special reference to Puramottam panchayat", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no.f500-f505, June-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106771.pdf

"A study on people below poverty line with special reference to Puramottam panchayat", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no. ppf500-f505, June-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106771.pdf