'India's poverty lies in the eyes of the beholder.' In light of this statement, examine the need for a credible and periodically updated poverty estimation framework in the country.

According to NSK Agency NPT (2012) there are cured 1230 multidimensionally poor in India. Need for credible and periodically updated poverty estimation is as follows: (1) Different committees gave different criteria for poverty estimate in India based on nutrition, more E.g. - Rangarajan committee - Tendulkar committee. (2) Amarthen unfirmed about deprivation among poor as measurement. (3) World Bank's NPT encompassed deprivation based affords, which is considered inclusive to cause poverty.