You increased the poverty line from Rs 33 to Rs 123, then your number of poor people magically lower by some 100 millions ? Dose it make sense to you?
"Poverty line is an income threshold below which families are considered poor. India’s official poverty line had snowballed into a major political controversy.
Last year, a study by a panel headed by former chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, C Rangarajan, estimated that 363 million, or 29.5% of India’s 1.2-billion people lived in poverty in 2011-12. The Rangarajan panel considers people living on less than Rs 32 a day in rural areas and Rs 47 a day in urban areas as poor.
A panel headed by late economist Suresh Tendulkar fixed the poverty line at an income threshold of Rs 27.2 a day in rural areas and Rs 33.3 in cities."
India is home to world’s largest poor population | business | Hindustan Times