Is this growth? If Maharashtra can be this imagine UP and Bihar. Dispite of which all keep on saying India is great . we cant provide basic facilities to people and we say India is shining. Read TOI today
PUNE: As many as 81.8 per cent rural households in Maharashtra and 41.9 per cent urban households do not have toilets. As many as 39.2 per cent households have no drainage lines, 21.5 per cent use kerosene lamps in the absence of electricity and 46.6 per cent use firewood for cooking. But in all this, 24.7 per cent rural households and 70.5 per cent urban households own television sets!
Also, 35 per cent households have radios or transistors, 14.1 per cent have telephones, 30.1 per cent own bicycles, 13.2 per cent own scooters, motorcycles or mopeds, 3.4 per cent own cars, jeeps or vans and 36.8 per cent own none of the specified assets.
The figures have been revealed in the housing census conducted in June 2000, which studied houses, household amenities and assets. However, though the study was conducted in 2000, even today, a city like Pune has just 352 public urinals for a 30-lakh population.
S.S. Hiremath, deputy director, directorate of census operations, Mumbai, told TOI that the housing census was conducted for the first time during the Census 2001 exercise to determine the quality of life of people. "This study is not only useful for planners and policy-makers in the central and state governments, but also for administrators and planners at the loc
