The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Statistics and Programme Implementation Shri Srikant Kumar Jena has said that there is an increasing trend in Monthly Per Capita Expenditure (MPCE) as revealed through data thrown up by different Surveys conducted on Household Consumer Expenditure by National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) from time to time in rural as well as urban areas. This increase in MPCE reflects increase in purchasing power and spending habits of people.

In a written reply in the Lok Sabha today Shri Jena said, the trend in MPCE Growth as revealed through such surveys undertaken in 1993-94, 1999-2000, 2004-05, 2009-10 and 2011-12  both at current and constant prices is shown in statement given below: 

He said, no data has been collected in this regard separately for metro cities. However, increase in MPCE is more in urban areas as compared to rural areas as per statement given above.

Shri Jena said, the changes in spending habits by people are attributable to changes in life style, food habits, health consciousness due to increase in income levels of people because of different governmental programmes taken up from time to time. Some of the programmes taken up by Government to improve infrastructure in rural and urban areas and income level of people are Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), National Rural Livelihood Mission, National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP), Bharat Nirman, Pradhan  Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) , Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), and  Urban Infrastructure in Satellite Towns of Mega cities.

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