 The report also indicates that in Southern Asia, only India is on track to cut poverty by half by the 2015 target date.In 2015, according to United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MGD) programme, India has already achieved the target of reducing poverty by half, with 24.7% of its 1.2 billion people in 2011 living below the poverty line or having income of less than $1.25 a day, the U.N. report said.The same figure was 49.4% in 1994.