CENSUS 2001 data for Tripura is available. It doesn’t offer cheer, In fact, it spells gloom. The data shows that out of hundred households, only 42 per cent of households have access to electricity and only 30 households have access to electricity, safe drinking water and sanitation facilities.

A majority of the married couples are in search of privacy! Only 29 per cent of the total 629,569 married have independent sleeping rooms. The picture on sanitation facilities is also gloomy as 70.9 per cent of the total households do not have any facility of drainage and the proportion rate is very alarming in the rural areas. An estimated 18.6 per cent households do not have latrine facilities, which is much lower than the national average of 63.6 per cent. In the absence of electric supply, kerosene is still dominant source of lighting in rural areas’ with 57.5%. But in the urban areas, electricity is the dominant sources of power with 41.8 per cent of the population availing it, the report stated. The provision for providing safe drinking water is also not quite satisfactory given by census report. Out of 662,023 households, only 52.6 per cent have safe drinking water – in urban areas it is 85.9 percent and 45 in rural area.

The exposure of people to the financial and entertainment world is yet to be called satisfactory as the Census report revealed that only 26. 5 per cent of household avail banking facilities, 23.7 per cent has access to TV and 28. 5 per cent households tune into radio.

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