Madhya Pradesh has still a long way to go for providing majority of the households in the State with access to amenities like safe drinking water, toilets and means of communication. This was revealed in the Analytical Report on Houses, Household Amenities and Assets released as part of Census-2011 on Monday.
According to the fresh data, 23 per cent of the households have access to tap water, 47 per cent to hand pump and 20 per cent of the households depend upon ground wells as the main source of drinking water.
The data shows that out of a total of 14,967,597 household in the state, 5,302,402 households depend upon unsafe sources to satisfy their water needs.
Although the number of household with toilet facilities has recorded a growth in the state, a large numbers still do not have the facility. Out of the total households 28.8 per cent have latrine facility within premises.
This shows that nearly three-fourth of the households do not have latrine facility. Notably, the percentage share of households with latrine facility within the premises at all India level is 46.9.
Among the Empowered Action Group States (which were formerly referred as BIMARU, including Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh) the state ranks third after Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. As far as drainage facility in the households is concerned, a major proportion of 50.4 per cent households have open drainage facility, 31.9 per cent households have closed drainage connectivity while 17.7 percent have no drainage connectivity for waste water outlet at all. In terms of means of communication, although the penetration of mobile phones has recorded a phenomenal growth almost 65 per cent of the households in the state do not have mobile or telephone connectivity at all.
The number of households with computer is 5.9 per cent of the total. Notably, the same figure for all-India level is 9.5 per cent. As means of transport, two-wheelers and cars have recorded an increase in the state while there is a decline in number of bicycles. In terms of two-wheelers, there is an absolute increase of about 1.5 million households comprising 18.8 percent of total households.
The state has also recorded increase in percentage share of households having four wheelers from 1.8 per cent in 2001 to 2.7 per cent in 2011. The data also reveals that almost 66 per cent of the households in the state are dependent on firewood as a source of fuel for domestic cooking. Only 18.2 per cent have lPG connections while 1.3 per cent of the households are dependent on kerosene.