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Data on Slums Based on Houselisting & House Census 2011

Jan 30, 2014

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Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has released the census on the findings on slums.

The salient outcomes of the report are as follows:-

a) In all 1.73 Crore Census houses have been reported in the House listing Blocks categorized as Slums in India, comprising 1.37 Crore
slum households.

b) There are 19 cities with million plus population where more than 25% households live in slums.

c) A majority (71%) of these are located in six States namely, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Madhya
Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

d) Out of these 19 cities, five cities namely, Vishakhapatnam, Jabalpur, Mumbai, Vijayawada and Meerut have more than 40% slum
households.

e) Out of total slum houses, 92.7% are occupied and 7.3% are vacant.

f) 84.9% Census Houses are used for residence/residence-cum-other use.

g) 58.4% residential census houses are in good condition, 37.5% are livable and rest 4.0% are in dilapidated condition.

h) 70.2% Slum households are owned. Rest are mostly rented

i) 74 % households use Tap as the main source of drinking water followed by hand pump/tube well (20.3%)

j) Source of drinking water is available to 56.7% of the households within the premises in slums; 31.9% have the source located near
(within 100m) the premises and 11.4% have to travel more than 100 m away to fetch drinking water.

k) More than 90% slum households use electricity as main source of lighting, 8.2% kerosene and 0.7% households have other source
of lighting and 0.5% households have no lighting in the slum areas.

l) 66% households are having latrine facility within the premises meaning that every third household (34%) has no latrine facility within
the premises. 18.9% slum households defecate in open and 15.1% use public latrine.

m) 81% slum households have a bathroom or an enclosure without roof. 53.2% households avail banking service in slum areas.

n) About 70% slum households have television in their houses for entertainment, 18.7% possess Radio / Transistor.

o) Computers/laptops have not made inroads in slums to the desired extent. Only 10.4% households have computer/laptop in their
house, out of which 3.3% have computer/laptop with internet connection (as against 9.3% in non-slum areas) and 7.1% without
internet connection.

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p) 72.7% slum households have telephone facility out of which 4.4% have land line connection, 63.5% mobile and 4.8% have both
facilities. In non-slum areas this percentage is 83.9.

According to this the Ministry would frame the Slum Upgradation Index city-wise and state-wise for monitoring periodically the
upgradation of slums in the country. A committee will be set up to suggest the methodology for drafting this index and no distinction
will be made between notified, recognised and identified slums while providing financial assistance to the States under the Rajiv Awaas
Yojana scheme.

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