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Madhya Pradesh is a rural state that is urbanizing very fast. Out of four project cities three, Bhopal, Indore and Jabalpur, have more than a million people while the fourth, Gwalior, shall soon cross the million mark.
The slum population in Madhya Pradesh is 24 per cent of the total urban population as compared to the overall figure of 14 per cent of India. The infant mortality rate in Madhya Pradesh at 88 per thousand is much higher than the India average of 68 per thousand.
In most of the four project cities, water supply is provided only for a few hours a day in the wet season and less than an hour every other day in dry season. Non-revenue water is more than 50 per cent in all the project cities. One in five households do not have toilet facilities in their home. Around half of economically weaker section households do not have a private toilet.
Thirty eight percent of the urban population in Madhya Pradesh lives below the poverty line which is significantly higher than the national average of 24 per cent of the urban population living below the poverty line. Around 42.3 percent have no in-house water supply, 15.15 percent have no access to piped water, and 40 per cent of households receive water on alternate days.
With regard to solid waste disposal, 18.8 percent have no private toilets. About 80 percent of the population defecate in the open, 40 per cent have no solid waste collection. Flood problems are common in all four cities with 32.5 percent reporting flooding problems.
| Indicators | Bhopal
(%)
| Gwalior
(%) | Indore
(%) | Jabalpur
(%) | | 1 | Population served by Piped Water Supply | 67 | 68 | 68 | 89 | | 2 | No in-house connections (%HH) | 34.1 | 29.6 | 52.5 | 51.6 | | 3 | Per Capita Availability (lpcd) | 88 | 98 | 66 | 67 | | No private toilets (% HH) | 18.6 | 19.3 | 19.4 | 16.7 | | 5 | Open defecation by poor households | 52 | 44 | 63 | 43 | | 6 | Unaccounted For Water (UFW) | 64 | 64 | 52 | 52 | | 7 | Population served by reticulationsystem | 7 | 9 | 10 | 0 | | 8 | Population served by septic tankservices | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | | 9 | Safe disposal of solid waste | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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