Chennai:
Tamil
Nadu is way ahead of the national average when it comes to access to basic
amenities, homes as well as assets available in house, according to
‘Houselisting and Housing Census’.
The
findings of the census 2011, which included 1.2 million enumerators and 19,000
supervisors who surveyed 1.85 crore households, will help plan to realize the
dreams of Vision 2023 document, said
state planning commission vice-chairperson Shantha Sheela Nair, who
released the report along with director of census operations S Gopalakrishnan.
The
census revealed that number of households has increased from 1.42 crore in 2001
to around 1.85 crore in 2011 besides substantial improvement in quality of
housing both in rural and urban areas.
Interestingly,
the state has outscored many a times the national average when it comes to
households having assets, electricity, latrines, availability of tap water. As
regards amenities available in households, 94 per cent of households use tap,
tube well, hand pump and covered well as the main source of drinking water
while 80 per cent use tap water.
Interestingly, seven
per cent still fetched drinking water from a source located more than 500 metre
away in rural areas or 100 metres in urban area, and this figure was 12 per cent
in 2001, he noted.
The
state has outdone the national average in terms of households with latrine
available within the premises with as many as 48.3 per cent of the households
having the facility, while it was 46.9 for the country.
The
number of households having no latrine declined from 64 percent in 2001
to 52 per cent in 2011 and Chennai and Kanyakumari topped with more than 95 per
cent and 87 per cent having the facility within the premises.
Number
of households dependent on tap water rose from 62.5 per cent to 79.8 per cent “showing
the availability of treated water”.
Gopalakrishnan
said even as the number of households reliant on well-water and other sources
including borehole and hand pump showed significant decline.
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