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Madhya Pradesh is a rural state that is urbanizing very fast. Out of four project cities three, Bhopal, Indore and Jabalpur, have more than a million people while the fourth, Gwalior, shall soon cross the million mark.
The slum population in Madhya Pradesh is 24 per cent of the total urban population as compared to the overall figure of 14 per cent of India. The infant mortality rate in Madhya Pradesh at 88 per thousand is much higher than the India average of 68 per thousand. |
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Location: Madhya Pradesh |
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Partner: Asian Development Bank, TERI India, SGS Institute of Technology and Science (SGSITS), WaterAid India (WAI), Municipalities of Bhopal, Indore, Jabalphur and Gwalior, Jabalhpur Municipal Corporation (JMC) |
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Donor: UN-HABITAT Water and Sanitation Trust Fund |
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In most of the four project cities, water supply is provided only for a few hours a day in the wet season and less than an hour every other day in dry season. Non-revenue water is more than 50 per cent in all the project cities. One in five households do not have toilet facilities in their home. Around half of economically weaker section households do not have a private toilet.
Thirty eight percent of the urban population in Madhya Pradesh lives below the poverty line which is significantly higher than the national average of 24 per cent of the urban population living below the poverty line. Around 42.3 percent have no in-house water supply, 15.15 percent have no access to piped water, and 40 per cent of households receive water on alternate days.
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