The average income of a person in Bihar was lowest in the country for the year 2006-07, with the monthly income of a person in the state being just a little over Rs 800, Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
The state was also at the bottom of the list spending only Rs 1,352 per capita in the year 2006-07 in the social sector according to the Reserve Bank figures.
According to the State Directorate of Economics and Statistics, per capita income at current prices for Bihar was Rs 9702 for the year 2006-07, while Delhi was at the top with Rs 66,728, the data submitted by State Minister for Statistics and Programme Implementation G K Vasan said replying to a question in the Lok Sabha.
However, the per capita income figures of Goa, Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Nagaland, Chandigarh and Andaman and Nicobar were not available for the year.
Following Delhi at the top in terms of per capita income were Puducherry with Rs 52,669 and Haryana with Rs 49,038 at the second and third position respectively for 2006-07.
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh at Rs 14,685 and Madhya Pradesh at Rs 16,578 were lower down in the list but over Bihar.
However, Sikkim fared at the top with spending Rs 11,495 on the social sector like education, heath and infrastructure for the year 2006-07.
Mizoram (Rs 8,571) and Arunachal Pradesh (Rs 7,564) followed Sikkim at the second and the third position, the RBI report said. Uttar Pradesh at Rs 1,384 and Madhya Pradesh at Rs 1,695 were the other states with low per capita expenditure in social sector in 2006-07.