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Figure 1: Share of Each State’s homeless Population out of Total Population of the metropolitan cities contributing
State in 2011 significant numbers of the

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0.3 0.29 0.28 0.26 0.24 0.21 0.2 0.2 0.19 0.17 0.17 0.16 0.15 0.15 EMPLOYMENT
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CHANDI GARH DA MA N & DI U DADRA & NAGAR … NC T OF DE LH I RAJAS T HAN GUJA RA T GOA HARY ANA MADHY A P RADES H MAHARAS HT RA P UNJA B ANDHRA P RADES H UT T AR P RADES H JAMMU & K AS HMI R W E S T BENGAL K ARNAT AK A P UDUCHERRY UT T ARAK HAND ARUNACHAL P RADES H MA NI P UR T RI P URA CHHAT T I S GARH ODI S H A JHARK HAND T A MI L NA DU HI MACHAL P RADES H S IK K IM BI HAR NA GA LA ND MEGHALAY A A SSA M K ERALA A &
classification of workers of the
and India in 2011. In Bihar, close
houseless population in Bihar
to 17 thousand homeless people
Source: Census of India, 2001 and 2011
are working, which is 36.92% of
Figure 2: Share of Homeless Children under 6 years out of total homeless population across the total homeless population.
States of India Table 11 shows categories of
Homeless Children main homeless workers in Bihar
25.00 and India in 2011. The share of
20.00 cultivators is 12.90% in Bihar
15.00 compared to 4.3% of India.
10.00 Further, the share of agricultural
5.00 labourers is very high (36.46%)
0.00 Bihar Sikkim Assam Goa Kerala in Bihar relative to just 15.8% in
Jammu & Kashmir Himachal Pradesh Punjab Chandigarh Uttarakhand Haryana NCT of Delhi Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Nagaland Manipur Mizoram Tripura Meghalaya West Bengal Jharkhand Odisha Chhattisgarh Madhya Pradesh Gujarat Daman & Diu Dadra & Nagar Haveli Maharashtra Andhra Pradesh Karnataka Tamil Nadu Puducherry Andaman & Nicobar…
India.

Source: Census of India, 2001 and 2011
that the western part of India,
followed by south-western and Table 10: Classification of workers of houseless Population in Bihar and India, 2011
south-eastern parts are mainly
contributing to the houseless Bihar India
population. Numbers Share (%) Numbers Share (%)
Working 16833 36.92 919506 51.9
It also shows the houseless Population
situation in urban India. It is Main Workers 10055 59.7 654820 71.2
also found in our study that
there is a significantly positive Marginal 6778 40.3 264686 28.8
correlation (r=0.5044, p<.01) Workers
between urbanization rate and Non Workers 28751 63.0 853383 48.1
percentage homeless at the state Source: Calculated from Census of
level—similarly, all the major India 2011

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