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No person is homeless in Mizoram
Hindustan Times | Guwahati, April 16, 2012
Mizoram, India’s most literate state next to Kerala, has no homeless people. This north-eastern state also scores a high – 93.4% – in sanitation. So says the 2011 census for housing, household amenities and assets.
More than electricity, Manipur’s problem has been access to fuel for cooking. The militancy-mauled state, says the latest census, has 65% of its 6.09 lakh people dependent on firewood. Incredibly, 57% of them possess cell phones.
Manipur’s mark of 65.7% household firewood users is much above the national average of 49%, the census data reveals. In contrast, only 29.7% people use cooking gas while 0.2% households use kerosene for cooking.
“Ukhrul district has the most firewood users (93.1%) followed by Tamenglong district with 92.9% while Imphal West has the lowest percentage of 39.8,” said Manipur’s director of census operations Y Thamkishore Singh.
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