Mission Antyodaya is a mission mode project envisaged by the Ministry of Rural Development. It is a convergence framework for measurable effective outcomes on parameters that transform lives and livelihoods. The main objective of Mission Antyodaya is to ensure optimum use of resources through the convergence of various schemes that address multiple deprivations of poverty, making gram panchayat the hub of a development plan. This planning process is supported by an annual survey that helps to assess the various development gaps at the gram panchayat level, by collecting data regarding the 29 subjects (health & nutrition, social security, good governance, water management etc.) assigned to panchayats by the Eleventh Schedule of the Indian Constitution. The traditional poverty line linked to the calorie-income measure, religiously pursued by the Planning Commission proved inane and failed to serve as a purposive policy tool. The stats brought into the public domain by the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 were ‘demanding’ remedial intervention. 8.88 crore households are deprived and poor from the perspective of multi-dimensional deprivations such as shelter lessness, landlessness, households headed by single women, SC/ST household or disabled member in the family 90% of rural households have no salaried jobs 53.7 million households are landless 6.89 million female-headed households have no adult member to support 49% suffer from multiple deprivations 51.4% derive sustenance from manual casual labour 23.73 million are with no room or only one room to live.