<p>While methodologies for poverty measurement have evolved considerably, the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) has emerged as a widely adopted global tool to identify poor, seen through deprivations across the dimensions of health, education, and living standards. Existing studies on poverty in India have primarily focused on the incidence and intensity of multidimensional poverty, often decomposing the MPI to highlight disparities across states and social groups. Building on this literature, our study extends the analysis by examining the deprivation gap and severity in deprivation among the poor. The study also decomposes the underlying deprivations across Indian states and social groups, using data from the latest three rounds of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS). Additionally, we classify the population across four thresholds—non-poor, vulnerable to poverty, moderately poor, and severely poor—to capture the heterogeneity in multidimensional poverty. Our findings underscore the importance of considering deprivation gap and severity alongside incidence and intensity, and the spread of population across the poverty profiles, as such an assessment would help to understand the dynamics of poverty below the poverty line and allow policymakers to identify the priority groups for policy formulation, targeting, and implementation.</p>