NSS Report - Statistical Information
- General Information of Rural India
• 466 villages were surveyed in the 58th round of the NSS. • By 2002, more than three-fourths of India’s villages had access to electricity. • Non-conventional forms of energy were available in less than 12% of Indian villages.
- Statistical Information - Drinking Water
An estimated 50% of rural households were served by tubewell/handpump, while an estimated 26% and an estimated 19% were served by well and tap, respectively. About 70% and 21% of urban households reported being served by tap and tube well/ hand pump, respectively.
- Statistical Information - Sanitation
The proportion of households reporting no bathroom was much higher in rural areas (81%) than that (35%) in urban areas. A high proportion of households reporting no bathroom, reported their usual bathing place to be within their premises - 79% in urban and 62% in rural areas.
- Statistical Information - Waste Disposal
The proportion of households reporting removal of household waste by household members was much higher (94%) in rural areas than that (71%) in urban areas. While 14% and 12% of urban households reported removal of their waste by local authorities and by private agreement among residents, respectively.
- Statistical Information - Common Property Resources (CPRs)
Resources accessible to and collectively owned\held\managed by an identifiable community and on which no individual has exclusive property rights are called common property resources. Terms like “accessible”, “collectively owned/held/ managed”, “identifiable community” and “exclusive property rights” are explained briefly...
- Statistical Information - Energy used by Indian Households
There has been an increase in the proportion of hhs using electricity as major source of lighting by 13% (from 24% to 37%) in rural & by 9% (from 72% to 83%) in urban India since 1987-88. • There has been a decrease in the percentage of households from 74% to 62%m in rural & 27% to 16% in urban.
Documents and Data from Ministry of Rural Development (2006-07)
- Documents and Data from Ministry of Rural Development (2006-07) in Panchayat and related issues
Adequate Budgetary support – Allocation of funds for the rural development programmes has been enhanced to Rs. 77,474 crore for the Tenth Plan as against Rs. 42,87 crore during the Ninth Plan. The budget outlay has also increased from Rs. 24,480 crore in 2005-06 to Rs.31, 444 crore in the 2006-07.
- Document and Data of Ministry of Environment and Forest (2006-07) in Panchayat, Environment and Related issues
The objective of the BCRLIP project is to conserve biodiversity, while improving rural livelihoods through testing and establishing decentralized participatory approaches across a range of globally and nationally important landscapes under management regimes. Consultancy services for social and environmental assessment were awarded during the year.
- Document and Data of Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (2006-07) in Panchayat, Environment, and related issues
Water scarcity is increasing throughout India and is likely to increase further with global warming. Growing competition for this precious resource has pushed large swathes of rural communities towards impoverishment and could threaten equitable and sustainable development, ecological balance and political stability. Water security is the key to food security.
- Documentation and Data of Department of Agriculture and Corporation (2006-07) in Panchayat, Environment and related Issues
During the current year, the following five new initiatives were approved, namely, (i) the National Bamboo Mission; (ii) Forecasting Agricultural Output Using Space, Agri-Meteorology and Land-based Observation (FASAL); (iii) Capacity Building to Enhance the Competitiveness of Indian Agriculture and Registration of Organic Products Abroad; (iv) Jute Technology Mission; and (v) Terminal markets under the National horticulture Mission.
- World Food Programme in Figures
Millennium Development Goal-1 Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
|
