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'68 pct of rural Indian households own at least 1 mobile phone, but only 11 pct have fridge'

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NEW DELHI Jul 03, 2015 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Jul 03, 2015 12:00 am
The main breadwinner in three-quarters of households in rural India makes less than $80 a month while barely one in 10 homes has a refrigerator, a survey showed Friday.

While living standards have grown rapidly in India's towns and cities in the last two decades, the census of some 180 million rural households highlighted how many of the poorest states are lagging far behind. "This will give us a measure of the progress made by different sections and help with future policy planning," Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said at a press conference to mark the launch of the survey conducted in 2011.

While the survey did not give the national average, it showed only 25.5 percent of rural households had someone who earned more than 5,000 rupees (around $80) a month while just 9.68 percent included a member who draws a regular salary.

Previous government data covering the same period put the nationwide average monthly income at around 5,130 rupees.

The survey did illustrate how ownership of mobile phones is now widespread in rural areas, with 68 percent of households owning at least one device.

But only 11 percent of households had a fridge and that figure slumped to around three percent in the third largest state of Bihar and in Chattisgarh, which is one of the focuses of an insurgency by Maoist rebels.

A survey by Euromonitor released last year said that around 27 percent of all Indian households owned a fridge, against an Asia-wide average of around 65 percent.

With most rural livelihoods at least partly dependent on agriculture, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently launched a series of farming initiatives -- including a new $8 billion irrigation scheme -- after accusations his government has been too business-friendly.
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