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Imphal, Apr 10 : The Directorate of Census Operations, Manipur today released data on houses, household amenities and assets,
Census 2011 for Manipur. Y. Thamkishore , Director of Census Operations said census of India 2011 was conducted in two phases. The first phase,called the “Houselisting and Housing Census” was undertaken a few months prior to the second phase termed as “Population Enumeration”. The objective of the HoUselisting and Housing Census Operations is to identify each building/census house and also to ascertain the quality of the census house, amenities accessible to it and assets available to the households living in those census houses. The fundamental principle is to cover the entire area in a systematic manner without omission or duplication.
The enumerator collected information on 35 items by visiting each and every household and canvassing a written questionnaire called the Houselist and Housing Schedule during June to August, 2010.
Approximately six thousand enumerators and one thousand supervisors were engaged for this operation. Each Census in India since the first one in 1872, has attempted to capture the socio-economic, demographic and cultural diversity of this vast country and present it through measurable indices. In this attempt, each succeeding Census has attempted an improvement over the previous one.
As pejr the Houselisting and Housing Census, the census houses increased from 4,92,371 to 6,09,964. There is an increase of 1,17,593 houses for residential dnd partly residential purposes.
There is an improvement in the construction! material used for roof, wall and floor. Thus there is a substantial improvement in the quality of housing both in rural and urban areas.
As regards amenities available with the households, 48.3% of households are using Tap, Tube well, Hand pump and Covered well as the main source of drinking waiter while 38.6 percent use tap water.
Only 16.1% of households have source of water within the premises while 46.2% of households have to fetch water from a source located within 500 m in rural areas/100 m in urban areas and 37.8% still fetch drinking water from a source located more than 500 m away in rural areas or 100 m in urban area.
As far as Main source of lighting is concerned, 68.3% households use electricity which shows an increase of 7.7 point over 2001. The rural-urban gap has reduced by 8.3 percentage points from 29.5% in 2001 to 21.2% in 2011. For any other source of lighting the State recorded highest growth rate compared to other states (Manipur 3.6% & India 0.2%) 31.1% of the households have bathing facility within the premises, showing an Increase of 20.7 points over 2001.
About 52.9 % of the households have drainage connectivity of which 48.8 % have the ope!n drainage and 4.1 % have the closed drainage.
About 89.3% of the households have latrine facility within premises with 46.6% households have water closet and 34.6% households have pit latrine. There is 6.3 point decline in households having no latrine from 18.0 % to 10.7 % in 2011. ; 93.3% households have Kitchen facility with 85.9% within premises and 7.4% outside premises.
About 69.1% of the households are using firewood/crop residue, cow ;dung cake/coal etc. but only 0.2% households use Kerosene. There is an increase of 7.9 points in use of LPG from 21.8 % in 2001 to 29.7 % in 2011.9. As regards mode of communication, there is an increase of 150% in television and radios/transistors. 9% of the households have Computer/laptop with only \ 2.1% having internet facility. 57.5% households have Telephone/mobile facility with 74.4% in urban and 48.9% in rural area. For use of radio the State recorded highest growth rate among other states (Manipur 54.4% & India 19.9%).10. In the modes of transport 44.6% of the household are having bicycle, 19.8% two wheelers and 6% four wheelers. There is an increase of 8.7 points in two wheeler and 2.9 points in four wheelers and 6.6 points in bicycle. 29.6% of the households are availing banking facilities with 41.5% in urban and 23.5% in rural areas.
About T 17.2% !of the household do not have any of the specified assets. The Deputy Commissioner, Imphal West, L. Ashok Kumar and state co-ordinator census, S. Dinokumar were also present at the occasion of the release of data of the census 2011, Manipur.
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