Tiger80 Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 NEW DELHI: One-sixth of the country, or 200 million Indians, don't possess any of the most basic assets like a transistor or TV, phone, vehicle of any kind or a computer. In three states - Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and MP- close to a third of the households own none of these assets. On Tuesday, the registrar general of India released the final figures for the first phase of Census 2011, known as the Houselisting and Housing Census. The data shows how India lives - how many people to a house, how they light their houses and where they get their water from, and some of the things they own. The Census measures ownership of five assets - radio/transistors, television, telephone, computer and mode of transport. The proportion of households which own a radio has fallen, almost at the same rate at which the proportion of households with a TV has risen. Yet, there remains a stark difference between TV penetration in rural and urban India: Just one third of rural households own a TV set, while over 75% of urban households own one. TV penetration is highest in Delhi (88%), followed by Tamil Nadu (87%), Punjab, Chandigarh and Puducherry. Bihar has by far the lowest TV penetration of any state at just 15%. 2011 is the first year that the Census is counting mobile and landline use separately, and the numbers show that telephony in India is overwhelmingly about mobile phones. While 63% of households owned a phone, 53% owned a mobile phone only and another 6% owned both a landline and a mobile phone. Over half of rural households and three-quarters of urban households now own a mobile phone. Here too, there's considerable regional variation; east and north-east India have low telephone density, with Chhattisgarh and Orissa being the country's worst. Delhi, Chandigarh, Goa, Lakshadweep and Kerala all have a tele-density close to 90% About 20% of urban households and 5% of rural households now own a computer or laptop. Internet penetration at the household level follows further behind - just 1% of rural households own a computer with internet, and 8% of urban households. Chandigarh, Delhi and Goa are the only states or union territories with household internet penetration above 10%; it is under 1% in Bihar. Close to half of India owns no means of transport. Just 5% of households own a car, 21% own a two-wheeler and 45% own a bicycle (some would own more than one of these). http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/200-million-Indians-have-no-TV-phone-or-radio/articleshow/12253614.cms
anotherhawkeye Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 so TV and computer have become the basic assets now? :hysterical: As long as they can watch soap operas and cricket, is all well? It's okay if some can't watch reality TV or pron in their spare time. More people don't have access to water and education and library.
jairamesh Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 so TV and computer have become the basic assets now? : hysterical:As long as they can watch soap operas and cricket, is all well? It's okay if some can't watch reality TV or pron in their spare time. More number don't have access to water and education and library. True, I rather the focus is on education, water, and health rather than this materialistic drive for "stuff". What's the point of a computer when people can't read or write.
punjabi_khota Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 :WTF: TV is basic asset ? :wall: ********* I didn't have a tv 4 years out of last 7 ..so main bhi bhooka nanga hoon ab ?
ravishingravi Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 400 mio sleep hungry. I have noticed that watching TV is not so much fun with an empty stomach.
Clarke Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 The numbers are just mind boggling, imagine supplying/selling basics like water & electricity to a billion plus people. Even if India continues to grow at a good pace for the next 2-3 decades, where will all the natural resources come from ?
anotherhawkeye Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 The numbers are just mind boggling' date=' imagine supplying/selling basics like water & electricity to a billion plus people. Even if India continues to grow at a good pace for the next 2-3 decades, where will all the natural resources come from ?[/quote'] Not an insurmountable problem. But need good policies, small government, free and fair market, honest politicians and smart officials. India has none.
Desi Cartman Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 I think a startup is gonna market cheaper TVs basically doing what micromax did to mobile market in India. Things are changing fast. I would imagine the number to be more than 50% of population in early 90s and around 40% around 2000. My guess is that within next 10 years this number will be around 5% The numbers don't mean **** unless there is a comparison of last few decades. It's not like people didn't know that there are poor people in India
Magneto Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 its good not to have tv computer. they are such time waste.
punjabi_khota Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 The numbers are just mind boggling' date=' imagine supplying/selling basics like water & electricity to a billion plus people. Even if India continues to grow at a good pace for the next 2-3 decades, where will all the natural resources come from ?[/quote'] china ne kar diya, hum bhi kar denge :secret:
jairamesh Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 The numbers are just mind boggling' date=' imagine supplying/selling basics like water & electricity to a billion plus people. Even if India continues to grow at a good pace for the next 2-3 decades, where will all the natural resources come from ?[/quote'] Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangla, and Nepal, time to use that million plus army.
Sachin=GOD Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 china ne kar diya' date=' hum bhi kar denge :secret:[/quote'] China ne kar diya par hum har stage par Govt programs ka paisa kha lete hain toh kaise kar lenge :(
hari504504 Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 The numbers are just mind boggling' date=' imagine supplying/selling basics like water & electricity to a billion plus people. Even if India continues to grow at a good pace for the next 2-3 decades, where will all the natural resources come from ?[/quote'] when there is a will there is a way, don't always need rivers to get drinking water. water desalination and treatment plants are getting more and more cost effective by the year, atleast all our coastal cities should start using these. Electricity = nuclear plants/Thorium reactors, we had been progressing quite well not too long ago. Guess our politicians are too busy lining their pockets from the Uranium purchase kickbacks to think about slef sufficiency.
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