the basis of possessing either of the five assets such as ownership of more than two hectares of operational land holding, a pucca house, an annual income of Rs 20,000 or more, ownership of listed consumer durables and farm equipments, and include the rest as poor. (Sundaram 2003: 896) The 2002 BPL Census was score-based ranking of 13 parameters with a scale of 0 to 4.