for instance in per cent of children in age group had not completed a secondary education and out of households did not have access to publichealth facilities household consumption data for india reveal that per cent of the population do not have an intake of 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 headcount poverty is estimated to be in the range of per cent using a poverty line and at per cent using a line without a distinction between rural and urban himanshu p