Shillong, April 12: Twenty-first century Meghalaya still faces problems of open defecation, accessibility to sources of lighting and potable water, although the scenario has marginally improved compared to a decade ago, especially in the field of communication. In the 2011 census, the population was recorded at 29,64,007 (14,92,668 males and …
For a state government that pats itself for having turned Gujarat into a power-surplus region by connecting all the urban and rural areas to the electricity grid, the census data of 2011 — that shows over 11 lakh households without electricity — could come as a shock. The housing data …
The Housing Census 2011 has revealed that, although Uttarakhand has achieved considerable progress in provision of basic amenities, the number of mobile phone users in rural households is higher than the number of households with drinking water facility. The chief of Directorate of Census Operations, Uttarakhand, Sneh Lata Agarwal, said …
BHUBANESWAR: Above a third of Odisha’s households have to trudge half a km and more every day to get their quota of drinking water. What is worse, their number has been on the rise, the latest House-listing and Housing Census 2011 has found. Indicating an abysmal state of affairs, the …
The Census 2011 data for Haryana has revealed that about 96 per cent of families were living in good or liveable houses while the remaining were living in dilapidated houses, Director (Census Operations) Neerja Sekhar said here on Thursday. Releasing the Housing Census data at a Press conference here, she …
When the first set of detailed data from Census 2011, Houses, Households Amenities and Assets, was released a couple of weeks ago, there was much flinching at the fact that around half of all Indians still defecate in the open. The census data also showed that piped and treated drinking …
Srinagar, March 28: The findings of “Census 2011 - Housing and Household Amenities” have revealed that nearly 50 per cent of the households across the state lack toilet facilities while less than 35 per cent of them get treated water. Addressing a press conference here, Joint Chief Principal Census Officer …
The Tendulkar Committee’s recommendations on poverty have run out of takers, at least in the political circles. Under pressure from all sides over its estimate of people living below the poverty line, the Planning Commission on Thursday effectively abandoned the Tendulkar panel’s estimation method. A committee would be constituted to …
To tackle the challenge of skewed sex ratio in the Capital through multiple interventions, non-government organisation Centre for Social Research has unveiled a social programme to address the issue. “Delhi despite being the Capital has one of the worst sex ratios of 866 females per 1,000 males according to 2011 …
Opposition parties attacked the government today for the ‘obscenity’ of its poverty estimate figures. Both the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) asked the Prime Minister to direct the Planning Commission not to be “dishonest” about enumerating the poor to just reduce subsidies. In a …
No. Of People Below Poverty Line Dips To 24.8% From 34.4% Jaipur: In Rajasthan, if you earn more than Rs 846 per month (Rs 28.20 per day) in urban areas and Rs 755 per month (Rs 25.16 per day) in rural areas, then you are not below poverty line. The …
Three or more couples sleep under one roof in around 1.37 lakh houses while more than nine people live together in a single house in over two lakh dwellings in the national capital. These and other statistics are part of the 'Census of Houses, Household Amenities and Assets 2011' released …
MUMBAI: Call it a fitting paradox of life in the country's financial capital. Over 94% of Mumbai's homes own telephones, but merely 55% of suburban households have toilets. Nearly 85,000 of about 26 lakh homes in the city lack tap water and 75,000 are without electricity, reveals district-level findings of …
Tamil Nadu's scorecard for the decade is well ahead of the national average Tamil Nadu, acknowledged widely as one of the progressive States, has lived up to this image through its enhanced performance, over the last 10 years, in most of development parameters except sanitation. Be it the use of …
A latest data from the Census 2011 of Haryana, released by the Registrar General of India recently, presents a study in contrast. While about 83 per cent of the population has access to radio/TV and 79 per cent to telephone, including mobile phones, just 69 per cent of the total …
BHUBANESWAR: At least 37 million people in Odisha defecate in the open! The just released Census 2011 for sanitation and water indicate it. The total households, as per the Census, stand at 96,61,085 out of which 75,35,646 - 78 per cent - do not have toilets. Taking five persons in …
Having a kitchen in the house is a priority for an overwhelming majority of Malayalis, but safe drinking water remains a dream for more than 70 per cent of the households in the State while 3.8 per cent still defecate in the open. The latest Census figures reveal that Kerala …
After recording a staggering 47 per cent growth in population between 1991 and 2001, Delhi's decadal pace of population growth has slowed down to 21 per cent, with two of its nine districts, New Delhi and Central, registering even negative growth, the Census of India 2011 has revealed. It also …
Latest Census reveals high-end technology is common in the Capital and households have greater comforts than ever before With a greater number of its households possessing television sets than radios and transistors, with more families being connected to the Internet than to landline phones and with more people having scooters …
According to the Census 2011 data on houses, household amenities and assets released on Tuesday, Delhi’s population growth slowed down between 2001 and 2011, as compared to the previous decade. Here are some of the findings in the the provisional population totals for 2011: Decadal population growth stabilises Delhi’s population …
