Census 2011 finds healthy growth in Chennai city
Chennai is witnessing a healthy growth, compared to other metro cities, in providing piped water supply and sanitation while the number of two-wheelers has increased in Coimbatore and Tirupur, Mr S. Gopalakrishnan, director of census operations, Tamil Nadu, told a press conference here on Tuesday.
He pointed out that the state has done well on many fronts, including electricity connection and communication, since 2001.
Census 2011 indicates the progress of households and several people have added to their existing assets compared to 2001.
Under household and amenities and assets, the state has outdone the national average in terms of households with latrines within the premises with 48.3 per cent of households having the facility, while it was 46.9 for the country, he said.
The number of households having no latrine declined from 64 per cent in 2001 to 52 per cent in 2011, and Chennai and Kanyakumari districts turned out to be chart-toppers with more than 95 per cent and 87 per cent having the facility within the premises. Backward districts like Dharmapuri (19.0) and Ariyalur (18.1) continued to be at the bottom.
The field operation for the houselisting and house census commenced in October 2010 and was completed in 45 days.
The number of households, compared to the 2001 enumeration, has increased from 1.42 crore to around 1.85 crore and there has been tremendous improvement in construction material used for roof, wall and floor.
On the communication front, the official explained that 75 per cent households had telephone/mobile phone facility with cellphones making a penetration into 69 per cent of households.
TV sets managed to capture the attention of more households, while Internet connection witnessed 8 per cent growth in the urban areas.
In case of two-wheeler usage, Tirupur and Coimbatore topped the list as about 47 per cent houses had a vehicle. Nilgiris had fewer two-wheelers with only 7.7 per cent houses recording the presence of a vehicle.
When asked about the credibility of the census data, the top official said there could be content and coverage errors, which will be less than 2 per cent of the overall data compiled.
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