Rural Homes Over 60% of have no toilets.

World Toilets Day  November 19

In an indication of improved living conditions of a vast majority of people, Central Government data released on recently said 80% of rural households and 97.9% urban households had electricity for domestic use, and 88.5% households in rural India and 95.3% in urban areas had improved source of drinking water.

The data is part of the 69th round survey carried out during July to December 2012 by the National Sample Survey Office  (NSSO)on drinking water, sanitation, hygiene and housing conditions in India.

The percentage of households who get drinking water facilities within premises was 46.1% in rural India and 76.8% in urban India during the period (35% and 71%) according to Census 2011), while nearly 62.3% of rural households and 16.7% of urban households did not have any bathroom facility.

In fact, more than half of the rural population still defecates in the open, which has been pointed out by various organisations as a serious health hazard, especially for women and children.

According to the data, 59.4% & 8.8% households in rural and urban India (78.1% and 26.3% according to Census 2011), respectively, had no latrine facilities.

According to the survey, 94.2% households in rural India had secured tenure in their dwelling, while in urban India, the corresponding figure was 71.3%, but when it came to ‘good ventilation’, only 26.3% and 47.1% households in rural and urban India, respectively, had the facility.

 

On sanitation, despite improvement, there is still much to be done in rural India, as only 31.7% households had ‘improved drainage’ facility in the environment of their dwelling units, compared with 82.5% in urban households.

“The key results of the survey are based on the central sample consisting of 4,475 villages in rural areas and 3,522 urban blocks spread over all States and Union Territories. The total number of households surveyed was 95,548 (53,393 in rural areas and 42,155 in urban areas),” a release by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation said.

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