Housing and Space Management

Housing And Space Management 3(2+1)

Lesson 30: Housing Situation And Problems

Highlights Of The Nsso Survey

Quality of Housing in India

• In urban areas, 77 people in every 100 households lived in pucca structures, 20 in semi-pucca structures and only three in kutcha structures.
• In urban slum areas, 67 per cent of the dwellings were pucca.
• Rural areas of Delhi and Haryana, urban slums in Mizoram, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana, and urban areas (excluding the slums and squatter settlements) of Sikkim, Delhi, Uttaranchal, J&K and Gujarat reported the prevalence of more pucca structures than the rest of the country.
• The States of Tripura, Manipur and Chhattisgarh were found to be well below the national average in terms of prevalence of pucca structures.
• The floor area available to the average rural household was 38 square metres while the average urban household had 37 square meters. This survey also reveals that the average household size in rural areas was 5.15 and in urban areas 4.47.
• 19 out of every 100 structures in the rural areas and 11 in the urban areas were "in bad condition and required immediate major repair".
• 92 per cent of rural households and 60 per cent of urban households owned the dwelling units.