The All-India Debt and Investment Survey, and the Land and Livestock Holding Survey were last conducted in 2003.

In what could considered a scorecard of the UPA government’s policies on rural India over the last 10 years, two key reports on debt and investment as well as land holding patterns will be released by the National Sample Survey Office later this year.

Rural families in low income states such as Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal depend far less on ration shops for wheat and rice than the national average.