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| J&K still facing Bijli, Paani, Sadak blues; lagging behind national average on all developmental parameters | | 69 years after freedom! | | 42 percent people live in Kucha houses
Syed Junaid Hashmi
Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 4: Even after 69 years of independence, Jammu and Kashmir is still facing serious shortage of drinking water, sanitation, hygiene and housing facilities. Courtesy: Political elite of Jammu and Kashmir whose sole focus has remained grabbing headlines and parroting non-issues.
A report of Department of Statistics and Programme Implementation has laid bare the facts which clearly point towards the backwardness and developmental blues of Jammu and Kashmir. According to this report, 58.9 percent, 12.5 percent and 28.6 percent of rural households reported to have pucca, semi-pucca and kutcha structures respectively in Jammu and Kashmir.
88.1 percent, 5.8 percent and 6 percent urban households reported to have pucca, semi-pucca and kutcha structures respectively. However at the all India level, 65.8 percent, 24.6 percent and 9.6 percent rural households reported to have pucca, semi-pucca and kutcha structures respectively whereas in urban India 93.6 percent, 5 percent and 1.4 percent households reported to have pucca, semi-pucca and kutcha type of structures respectively of their dwelling units to live in.
Hence, J&K lags behind in both the urban and rural areas. People have dwelling units but the percentage of pucca structures is far lower than the national average. Not only this, in rural areas of J&K, 99 percent households had their own dwelling units whereas 90.8 percent urban households reported to have their own dwelling units. The percentage of households in J&K who did not have their own dwelling unit was negligible both in rural as well as urban areas.
However, the percentage of rural as well urban households in J&K, who resorted to hired dwelling was 0.5 and 7.8 respectively. So far as `other dwelling` is concerned 0.4 percent rural and 1.4 percent urban households resorted to have such type of dwelling.
At all India level 93.3 percent rural and 61.1 percent urban households reported to have their own dwelling unit to live in whereas the percentage of rural and urban households who did not have any dwelling was negligible as in case of J&K State. However, 5.1 percent rural and 35.4 percent urban households reported to have been living in hired dwelling. Also 1.6 percent in rural and 3.4 percent in urban households reported to have resorted to `other dwelling`.
Even on these parameters, J&K is not doing any good. State has miserably failed to implement the centrally sponsored schemes. In Jammu and Kashmir, 31.3 percent rural and 12.5 percent urban households have Public tap/stand pipe as principal source of drinking water whereas the percentage of rural as well as urban households who use Tube well/bore hole as their principal source of drinking water was 23.9 percent and 14 percent respectively.
At all India level, 14.3 percent rural households and 12.8 percent urban households reported to have used public tap/stand pipe as their principal source of drinking water whereas the percentage of rural and urban households who reported to have used tube well/bore hole as their principal source of drinking water was 52.4 percent and 19.9 percent respectively. J&K is doing good in providing taps and stands pipes source of drinking water to the people but tube wells and bore holes are still scarce.
37.1 percent rural and 3.1 urban households have no latrine facility. However, the percentage of rural as well urban households who reported to have exclusive use of household members was 44.3 and 84 whereas the percentage of rural and urban households who resorted to common use of the latrine facility for the households in the building was 12.6 and 11.9 percent respectively.
At all India level, the percentage of rural as well as urban households, with latrine is 59.4 percent and 8.8 percent respectively. All India percentage figures for exclusive use of household members` for rural as well as urban households is 31.9 and 63.9 respectively. However, 7.1 percent rural and 21.6 percent urban households resorted to common use of the latrine facility for the households in the building`.
In J&K, 30 percent rural and 1.8 percent urban households have no bathroom facility in their dwelling units whereas 36.8 percent rural and 37.6 percent urban households have facility of detached bathroom in their dwelling units. Besides this, households having facility of attached bathroom is 33.2 percent rural and 60.7 percent urban households.
At all India level, the percentage of households in rural as well as urban areas who did not have any bathroom facility was 62.3 percent and 16.7 percent respectively. However, 22.2 percent rural and 27.9 percent urban households reported to have detached bathroom facility in their dwelling units. Apart from these households having attached bathroom facility in rural areas was 15.5 percent and 55.4 percent for urban areas.
In J&K, 95.4 percent rural and 99 percent urban households have facility of electricity for domestic use. However, the percentage of households who are availing facility of electricity in rural as well as in urban areas at all India level was 80 percent and 97.9 percent respectively. In J&K, 47.1 percent rural households and 7.3 percent urban households have no drainage facility at all. However, 5.8 percent rural households and 49.8 percent urban. |
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