As many as 99% of rural households had two square meals everyday througout the year in 2009-10, registering a gradual increase from 94.5% in 1993-94, according to a report by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO). Similarly, 99.6% of urban households had two square meals a day in 2009-10 from 98% in 1993-94, showed the last of a series of reports on consumer expenditure brought out after the 66th round of the NSSO survey. "The proportion of rural households reporting not getting two square meals every day in any month of the year dropped from 0.9% to 0.2% in rural areas between 1993-94 and 2009-10, while the corresponding proportion of urban households dropped from 0.5% to 0%. The proportion of rural households reporting not getting two square meals every day in some months of the year has fallen from 4.2% to 0.9% in rural India and from 1.1% to 0.3% in urban India over the 16-year period,” added the report, titled ‘Perceived Adequacy of Food Consumption in Indian Households’. In rural areas, households not perceiving themselves as availing of adequate food throughout the year accounted for 2.1% or less in all major states, except West Bengal (4.6%) and Orissa (4%). In these two states, about 3.8%-3.9% rural households reported that they did not get adequate food every day in some months, while 1.2% in Assam, 1.1% in Bihar, and 1% in Chhattisgarh said they were not getting adequate food daily in some months. "In urban India, the percentage of households not perceiving themselves as getting adequate food throughout the year was less than 1.3% in all major states except Madhya Pradesh, where it was 2.5%," the report said. Moreover, 0.1% or less number of households in the urban areas of major states said they didn't get enough food daily in any month of the year, barring Orissa. In Orissa, 0.6% of urban households belonged to this category, while 0.5% felt that they did not get enough food every day in some months, it added. The households that didn't get enough food daily throughout the year was 1.1%, or less, for all types of households, except those of farm labourers where 1.9% said they were less privileged in this way. Among rural farm labourer households that reported insufficient food in some months, Manipur led the pack at 12%, followed by 10% in Orissa, 6.3% in West Bengal and 6% in Tripura. In rural areas, households reporting adequate food intake in only some months of the year was 1.8% for the scheduled tribes, 1.3% for the scheduled castes, 0.4% for other backward classes, and 0.9% for others, said the report.