Besides having the second highest per capita income (Rs. 1.09 lakh in 2012-2013) in India, the Haryana state has about 13 lakhs Below Poverty Line (BPL) families. However, the poverty ratio has been declining over the last 25 years because of centrally-sponsored poverty alleviation programmes but the state still has a poor status in regard to quality of life indicators like health, sex ratio etc. In this paper an attempt has been made by the authors to accentuate first, the current state of poverty level, second, to evaluate the various poverty alleviation programmes implemented by Haryana state and in third part of this paper various policy suggestions pertaining to the poverty alleviation has been suggested. Secondary data have been used in this study and the same has been analysed using descriptive statistics.