An overview of household amenities in maharashtra: A district level analysis from dlhs-3

Socio-economic development is a very important domain in recent lifestyle in India. The majority of the peoples were not receiving pure drinking water and enough food. The water and sanitation condition becoming the worst day by day. The government and Non-Government organizations (NGO) were running number of programs to overcome of the water crisis in Maharashtra, but rapid urbanisation brings along several challenges related to water quality issues and sanitation. However, the lives of poor people were becoming serious concern for government in case of health, education, employment, etc. The aim of present paper is to study the district level status of household amenities in Maharashtra. The secondary data of District Level Household Survey- 3 (DLHS) 2007-08 has been used for the present paper. The study reveals that in Maharashtra only 27.5 percent of the households having pucca houses. Further analysis shows that less than 20 percent of the households having pucca houses in the districts namely Nandurbar, Gadchiroli, Washim, Hingoli and Beed. In case of drinking water state as whole 82 percent of the household having drinking water facility. Only 47 percent of the household having toilet facility in Maharashtra and the district level analysis shows that Gadchiroli 12 percent Beed 16 percent Nandurbar 20 percent of the household having toilet facility. Overall in all the indicators more than ten districts were performing very low -level of excellence. So there is needed to design very strong program and proper implementation policy to improve household amenities in Maharashtra.