Gurugram: Within the Financial Survey 2025-26 launched Monday, the Haryana authorities said that the state’s annual per capita revenue had reached Rs 3,95,618 at present costs—up from Rs 3,58,171 in 2024-25. It added that the Gross State Home Product (GSDP) is now at 11.8 %; in the meantime, the providers sector is booming and industries are increasing.

With this, Haryana, on paper, seems to be a state racing forward. However, one other set of numbers from the state’s Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP)—the federal government’s household ID scheme—seems to be contradictory.

Contemplating Haryana’s inhabitants of roughly 2.9 crore and a median family dimension of 4 individuals per household—a typical ratio the state itself applies—it’s discovered that 51.83 lakh of the almost 73 lakh households throughout Haryana, or 70 % of them, live on lower than Rs 1.8 lakh a yr.

Roughly 10 % of all households are categorised by the state as Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY), referring to the poorest of the poor with an annual household revenue of lower than Rs one lakh.

Making use of comparable arithmetic to the financial survey information—multiplying a per capita revenue of Rs 3,95,618 at present costs by the estimated variety of members in every family (4)—implies an annual household revenue of almost Rs 16 lakh.

In different phrases, in keeping with the survey, the typical Haryana household earns Rs 16 lakh yearly. The doc notes this determine is 70 % larger than the nationwide common, which is near Rs 2.2 lakh.

Then again, the PPP database, compiled by the identical authorities, says seven in ten households earn lower than Rs 1.8 lakh.

Each are Haryana authorities figures. Each relate to the identical interval.

The contradiction is stark sufficient to warrant a proof that neither doc provides.

If each units are appropriate, the huge distinction between the survey figures—which point out the scale of the financial pie—and the Parivar Pehchan Patra information—which point out how the pie is distributed—can solely be defined by excessive revenue inequality. Haryana’s development isn’t trickling all the way down to seven out of each ten households, who stay close to the poverty line.

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What the Oppn is saying

Ex-CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda has slammed the state’s Financial Survey 2025-26 figures on per capita revenue as a “sham”, telling ThePrint the numbers have been closely propped up by a handful of urban-industrial pockets, whereas the remainder of the state struggled.

“This so-called per capita revenue of Rs 3.95 lakh is nothing however a statistical phantasm,” Hooda mentioned. “It’s pushed virtually solely by the shine of Gurugram’s company towers, Faridabad’s industries, and Manesar’s auto hubs. The expansion in these NCR-adjacent areas pulls up the typical, however what in regards to the farmer and labourer in rural Haryana, or households within the heartland districts? For them, this determine means nothing.”

The federal government, he additional instructed ThePrint, had already indicated by its Parivar Pehchan Patra that seven out of ten households reside their yr on lower than Rs 1.8 lakh.

Within the state meeting, Chief of the Opposition Hooda earlier mentioned, “How are you going to boast of excessive per capita revenue whereas your individual information reveals mass hardship? That is lopsided improvement at its worst: just a few pockets increase whereas the remaining are left behind, and the financial survey is used to paper over the inequality.”

What officers are saying

The financial survey tasks the GSDP at present costs for 2025-26 at Rs 13,67,769 crore, rising at 11.8 %—sooner than the 11.3 % recorded in 2024-25. The providers sector, which now accounts for 52.1 % of the state’s Gross Worth Added at fixed costs, is projected to develop by 11.5 %, led by commerce, transport and monetary providers.

Furthermore, in keeping with the survey, Haryana’s trade is rising at 8.9 %. Agriculture, the livelihood of an enormous chunk of the state’s inhabitants, is rising at a comparatively modest 4.4 %.

Concerning the contradiction between the survey information and the PPP database, a senior Haryana authorities official instructed ThePrint that the 2 information units serve completely different functions and thus can’t be straight in contrast.

“The per capita revenue determine quoted within the financial survey—Rs 3,95,618 at present costs—is the usual nationwide statistical measure of per capita GSDP. It’s merely the state’s whole Gross State Home Product divided by its inhabitants. That is how each state and the Centre report financial efficiency, and it appropriately displays Haryana’s robust development trajectory, inserting us persistently among the many top-performing states within the nation,” he mentioned on situation of anonymity.

He defined that the mixture indicator captured the general output and productiveness of the economic system— pushed closely by sectors corresponding to IT/ITES in Gurugram, cars in Manesar-Faridabad, logistics, monetary providers, and actual property within the NCR belt—claiming there have been no pretensions to signify the typical take-home revenue of each family.

“The PPP database is an administrative instrument created particularly for figuring out and focusing on beneficiaries below numerous welfare schemes—subsidised rations, old-age pensions, and different pro-poor interventions. Households declare their incomes for this objective, and the system is designed to be inclusive in order that no deserving family is overlooked. Many candidates have each incentive to report conservatively to qualify for advantages below the Rs 1.8 lakh annual household revenue threshold,” he added.

Nevertheless, the huge distinction between the figures within the two datasets—even after contemplating potential revenue under-reporting by households within the PPP—suggests that almost all of Haryana’s inhabitants isn’t experiencing the “Rs 16 lakh” way of life, as indicated by the per capita revenue.

(Edited by Madhurita Goswami)

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