An Indian villager cycles beside a pond in Marodh, in the central state of Chhattisgarh, India March 9, 2006. Although India is expected to grow at more than 7 percent in the year ending March 2006 with finance planners in New Delhi highlighting its record foreign reserves, rising middle class incomes and booming stock market, around 26 percent of its population, 260 million people, live below the poverty line. REUTERS/Kamal Kishore