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The National Multidimensional Poverty Index is key in assessing advancements towards target 1.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which aims at reducing “at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions” by 2030. NITI Aayog’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is based on three dimensions — health, education, and standard of living — with each having a weightage of one-third in the index. These dimensions are further based on 12 segments — nutrition, child and adolescent mortality, maternal health, years of schooling, school attendance, cooking fuel, sanitation, drinking water, electricity, housing, assets, and bank accounts. There are two indices used for arriving at the MPI Value. MPI is the product of the following two indices. Headcount ratio which indicates how many are poor and the intensity of poverty which indicates how poor are the poor. The values are based on the NFHS survey reports.