Social Sector

Table 141 - Proportion of Households by Size of Tenements

(No. of rooms per House hold)	Percentage of Households
	1961	1971	1981	1991
1 Room	72.3	77.4	68.9	72.9
2 Room	16.6	14.2	16.9	18.0
3 Room	5.0	5.3	6.2	6.4
4 Room	2.1	1.9	1.9	1.8
5(+) Room	1.6	1.1	4.1	0.9
Unspecified	2.4	0.1	2.0	-
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
House holds (in '000s)	803	1073	1580	2088
Rooms (in '000s)	1092	1458	2235	2921
Percentage of Households (1991)
	Scheduled Castes		Scheduled Tribes
1 Room	85.1		84.1
2 Room	11.2		11.5
3 Room	2.1		2.1
4 Room	0.5		0.7
5(+) Room	1.0		1.4
Unspecified	0.1		0.2
Total	100.0		100.0
House holds (in '000s)	105		21
Rooms (in '000s)	128		27

Distribution of scheduled castes and scheduled tribe households by number of rooms in 1991, reflect their over crowded housing conditions
Nearly 85 per cent of the households of both the groups had just one room to themselves. Each household in both groups had barely 1.2 rooms at its disposal