In a given year in India, official poverty lines are higher in some States than in others because

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The Planning Commission methodology for estimating poverty at national and state level was regarded by some as inappropriate in giving a representative picture of the incidence of poverty in the country. The main points of the criticism were:the adjustment procedurethe choice of deflators to represent price changes in the poverty lineapplication of the same poverty line in all the states, which imply the absence of price differentials across the statesuse of a fixed consumption basket over timethe uniform consumption basket for all the states