The objective of the Baseline was to provide information with respect to poverty and empowerment in villages covered by DPIP. BLS generated reliable quantitative and qualitative poverty - related data, which would serve as a benchmark. Also it helped to optimize the effectiveness and relevance of planning, tracking, and evaluating various projects interventions. The BLS covered 308 villages through a stratified two stage sampling design. The various instruments used were enumeration, household schedule and other participatory approaches.
The survey was done in Shajapur, Rajgarh, Vidisha, Guna, Shivpuri, Narsinghpur, Raisen, Damoh, Sagar, Rewa, Tikamgarh, Chattarpur, Panna and Sidhi in Madhya Pradesh, India.