66 Years Post-Independence, 59.4 Percent Rural Indians Have No Latrines

Among rural households, 85.8 percent had sufficient drinking water and for urban India the corresponding figure was 89.6 percent, it showed.

On drinking water, information collected in the survey included sources and sufficiency of drinking water, distance to the source of drinking water and quality of drinking water.

Percentage of households which got drinking water facilities within premises was 46.1 percent in rural India and 76.8 percent in urban India.

The survey also said that 65.8 percent of rural households and 93.6 percent of urban households lived in a house with pucca structure while 24.6 percent of rural households and 5.0 percent of urban households lived in a house with semi-pucca structure during 2012.

“Eighty percent of rural households and 97.9 percent of urban households had electricity for domestic use,” the data revealed.

It said only 10.8 percent of urban dwelling units were situated in slums.

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