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POLICY REVIEW

Table 14: Availability and Shortage of Shelters for Urban Homeless across the States of India
States Urban Total Availability States Urban Total Availability
Homeless Capacity in of Shelters Homeless Capacity in of Shelters
(2011) Shelters (%) (2011) Shelters (%)
Andaman & 65 60 92.31 Meghalaya 177 67 37.85
Nicobar
Andhra 75857 6690 8.82 Mizoram 104 3930 ______
Pradesh
Assam 2527 1110 43.93 Nagaland 344 80 23.26
Bihar 12591 2457 19.51 NCT of Delhi 46724 16269 34.82
Chandigarh 4133 239 5.78 Odisha 14053 1865 13.27
Chhattisgarh 6533 1012 15.49 Puducherry 1508 200 13.26
Goa 1693 175 10.34 Punjab 18374 3698 20.13
Gujarat 84822 7533 8.88 Rajasthan 73236 9295 12.69
Haryana 23789 2128 8.95 Sikkim 32 95 -------
Himachal 872 848 97.25 Tamil Nadu 37117 9869 26.59
Pradesh
Jharkhand 6997 2185 31.23 Telangana N.A 6940 --------
Karnataka 35473 1030 2.9 Tripura 1352 100 7.4
Kerala 7761 11481 ______ Uttar 180929 8136 4.5
Pradesh
Madhya 66055 4768 7.22 Uttarakhand 5556 1234 22.21
Pradesh
Maharashtra 111373 4107 3.69 West Bengal 104967 2083 1.98
India 925014 109684 11.86
Source: DAY-NULM, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India and Census of India, 2011.

people in the urban areas. The is highly at risk of suffering of Bihar. However, the findings
total capacity of shelters created from poverty, hunger, poor are opposite in the context of
under DAY-NULM is 1.09 lakh. health, lack to access education, India.
Thus, there are 8.15 lakh urban clean water and sanitation, and The state level distribution of
homeless people who do not furthermore. Besides, higher homeless population depicts
have access to shelters. socio-economic inequality may very heterogeneous pattern.
aggravate homelessness among The study found that the
the distressed population.The highest share of homelessness
CONCLUSION AND
IMPLICATIONS decadal growth among the is observed in the state of
homeless households of Bihar is Uttar Pradesh, followed by
Literature shows that the much higher than the national Maharashtra, Rajasthan,
socio-economic conditions average. Interestingly, the Madhya Pradesh, and Andhra
of the shelterless people are maximum increase among both Pradesh. Therefore, these five
much worse than the average homeless households and the states are home to more than half
population. A homeless person population is in the rural areas of the homeless population of the

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