Poverty in present day rural India is not synonymous with hunger or homelessness. Poor people in rural areas mostly have access to food that helps survival, not growth. They have shelter yet their habitats are deprived of basic amenities mostly taken for granted in today’s civilized world. Often, they are trapped in an overwhelming environment of deprivation resulted from lack of access to education, healthcare, employment, infrastructure and discriminatory social order. This keeps them vulnerable, at the edge without any ability to counter unpredictability of life and nature. This prevents them from realizing their human potential, denies them the freedom to live a good life and to do the things that makes the life worth living. In this context the poverty is the deprivation of basic capabilities not merely lowness of income.