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In a major exercise to estimate poverty, a nation-wide survey has been launched to capture household accessibility to amenities including nutrition, drinking water, housing and cooking fuel. The exercise is likely to help India arrive at poverty levels, years after the poverty line idea was dumped. The number of poor as well as poverty levels are crucial for any government to prioritise social sector schemes. In 2014, the NDA government had junked the C Rangarajan committee report on poverty as it had pegged 100 million more poor vis-à-vis the last estimate based on the Tendulkar committee report.