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Agathirahithakeralam– Selection Criteria

If a family satisfies 7 out of the 9-point criteria and 1 additional criterion (Table 1), the family will be deemed as a destitute and will be a beneficiary of the program.

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Selection Criteria
1 Landless/ less than 10 cent land in rural & 5 cent land in urban 
2 Homeless/ lives in dilapidated house 
3 No drinking water facility within 150 m 
4 No hygienic toilets 
5 Family without an employed adult (has job less than 10 days a month) 
6 Women headed family 
7 Family with members having physical/mental disability or  chronic disease 
8 Family belonging to SC/ST/Fishermen communities 
9 Family with illiterate adults
 
  Additional criteria for Rural areas   Additional criteria for Urban areas
1 Landless (family living on forest lands, waste lands, bunds of canals / fields etc.) 1 Family sleeping on public places / streets at night
2 Family sleeping on public places/ streets at night 2 Unmarried old women
3 Family with unwed mothers / mother & children only / deserted women  3 Family engaged in begging
4 Financially unsound widows / unmarried old women 4 Family with no members below 60 years of age capable of providing food for the family
5 Family with members having chronic illness / physical or mental disabilities 5 Family with woman who has suffered abuse
6 Family with no members below 60 years of age capable of providing food for the family 6 Family with children in Juvenile Homes/ Poor Homes/ street dwellers
7 Family engaged in begging 7 Family looked after by children below 14 years of age
8 Family with woman who has suffered abuse 8 Family with commercial sex workers
  9 Family with women living in destitute homes
10 Family living in slums
Table 1