For instance, in 1999-2000, 71 per cent of children in age group 15-19 had not completed a secondary education, and 4 out of 5 households did not have access to public-health facilities. Household consumption data for India reveal that 62 per cent of the population do not have an intake of 2100 calories per day! Using the international poverty lines employed by the Asian Development Bank in the recent revised estimates of poverty based on PPPs for 2005, headcount poverty is estimated to be in the range of 54.8-65.3 per cent using a $1.35 poverty line, and at 60 per cent using a $1.25 line without a distinction between rural and urban (Himanshu, 2008, p. 42).