Rural India –Key Statistics to Know [More Mobile than Radio]
Key statistics for Rural India-
- Rural India constitutes 69% of India’s population.
- 86% of Rural population earns less than $2 per day (most of Indian BoP households earn $67 per month).
- There are more phones than Radio in Rural India (100million subscriber base).
- Only 0.29 per cent of the male population has reached the graduation level (0.04% for women) and 6.% of the rural males arc educated up to the middle level.
- 70 % of the disabled in India lives in rural areas
- Safe Drinking Water – 67% of rural households in Jharkhand did not have access to safe drinking water;
- More than 90 percent of rural households in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh did not have access to toilets within their premises
- Connectivity – In 2006: 13% in rural India had to travel > 30minutes; 2008: just 2%!
- When it comes to connectivity, Rural Indian BOP segment has grown more than urban in last year
- Nearly 50% of the villages in the country do not have all weather roads, making physical communication to these villages highly expensive.
Do you see opportunities here?
Next- Overview of opportunities in Rural India.
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And we are talking about globalization and blah, blah….
I am awaiting your next article on opportunities. Hope they are not going to be again suck this poorly stricken population… but improving them
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Kasi
Good observations…
But why are we repeating same old problematic stuffs lying in villages?
Why can’t we have the data regarding the skill sets they have?
Which new area they are exploring or getting open with technologies?
How can we make those areas self sustainable?
Dear Mr.Sinha,
I have gone through some key statistics regarding Rural India.
I will like to start a Rural BPO for the viallagers in and around Coimbatore. But we need to train them and educate them to meet that situtation.
How can you help you in this regard ?
Please tell me in detail to my email.
Thank you
Kailash