Fuzzy expert system for identification of the people living below poverty line

Abstract

This paper proposed a fuzzy expert system for identification of people living below poverty line and allotment of different scheme to them. A prototype system called, Poor People Identification System (PPIS), has been developed to assist the Government to identify the real poor people and also allot different benefit according to their needs. To evaluate the performance of the PPIS we have tested the proposed system with data from a village of West Bengal, India.