This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in India. It studies the period between 1991-2016 of regional distribution in different states of total BPL people in the country. It analyzes the people living below the poverty line in women and men in the country. In 1991, 12.3% of men and 16% of women were living below the poverty line in the country. This decreased to 10.4 percent male in 2011 and 12.9% of women were living below the poverty line. The southern and eastern part of the country in which Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, West Bengal are the concentration of poverty in the India. As of 2015, 12.2% of men and 14.8% of women in the country were living below the poverty line. The secondary data collected from MOSPI shows the number of people living below the poverty line in different parts of the country Central India North Eastern India South India Western India. The highest number of BPL people in the country in 2001 was 41.1% of the total BPL people in India in South India. While the lowest number of BPL people is 17.3% out of the total BPL people in the country in North-Eastern India. As of 2016, the highest BPL percentage in the world is 41.9% in South India. While the lowest was 14.7% in the North-East region. The paper also provides a discussion on numerical regional distribution of people living below the poverty line in the country and presents to the Government the fact that the policy formulation of the for the benefit of these sections is to formulate policies and schemes for prevention of poverty and employment generation in which part of the country.