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CASE STUDIES


              like toilet, water, electricity,   sources-piped (30 per cent)   Nadu and  40 per  cent  in
              etc.’.  The   study   reveals   and a borewell with a storage   Odisha.  On  the  other  hand,
              newly built houses with         tank (23 per cent). In Odisha,   in Kerala, an open well is the
              limited access to basic civic   30 per cent of the beneficiaries   major water source outside
              infrastructure.                 have piped water  within        the premises on which 29 per
                                              premises, while  in Tamil       cent  of  the  beneficiaries  rely.
              As per Figure 10, access to                                     70 per cent of the BLC houses
              metered electricity is high     Nadu, handpump is the           in Kerala did not have any
              in  all three  states. 90  per   major source of water within   solid waste service in place,
              cent of houses had metered      premises  with  a share  of 21   while it is about 16 percent in
              electricity in Odisha, while    per cent, followed by piped     the case of Odisha. The door-
              the access was at 83 per cent   water (11 per cent). The share   to-door collection was scarce,
              in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.       of beneficiaries with water     with only 20 percent of BLC
              The primary source of water     outside the premises is much    houses in Odisha and 13 per
              supply showed inter-state       larger in the case of Odisha    cent in Kerala reporting Door-
              variations.  Kerala  exhibited   and Tamil Nadu. In both the    to-Door solid waste collection.
              a high share of water within    states, reliance on public tap   64 percent of the beneficiaries
              premises, mainly from two       is high, 57 per cent in Tamil   in Odisha dumped their solid
                                                                              waste at a nearby collection

              Figure 10:  Access to basic services                            point or vacant land. Around
                                                                              80 percent of the beneficiaries
                                                                              in each state had access to
                                                                              a pucca road. However, 7
                                                                              percent of the beneficiaries in
                                                                              Tamil Nadu reported having
                                                                              no road in front of their BLC
                                                                              houses. More than 80 percent
                                                                              HHs in Kerala have no drains,
                                                                              while 12 percent have pucca-
                                                                              covered drains and 5 percent
                                                                              have pucca uncovered drains.
                                                                              On the other hand, 46 percent
                                                                              of the  HHs  in Odisha  have
                                                                              uncovered pucca drains, 38
                                                                              percent have no drains and 13
                                                                              percent have pucca-covered
                                                                              drains.

                                                                              Further,  the  share  of  HHs
                                                                              with access to three basic
                                                                              services viz. piped water,
                                                                              metered     electricity  and
                                                                              pucca road was 24 per cent
                                                                              in Odisha where as it was 21



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