Issues relating to poverty have been at the core of development process in all developing countries. Measurement of poverty has been extremely important for evaluation of development strategies. Disparities do exist in the income as well as consumption and expenditure levels in different groups of society as also there are spatial dispersions. There are indicators for measuring incidence, depth and severity of poverty. Most of these indicators are estimated at State level with the help of data as obtained from Consumption Expenditure Surveys. For poverty alleviation programmes, as well as for planning other development strategies at micro-level, small area level estimates for poverty indicators are necessary. In this paper, an attempt is made to review some of the existing procedures for poverty mapping and an application of a Small Area Estimation technique is made for estimating poverty indicators at district level in Uttar Pradesh. Data from Consumption Expenditure Survey of NSSO
(61st round 2004-05) has been used for this application.