A Comparative Analysis of Housing Shortage and Levels of Deprivation in India.pdf (original) (raw)

The present paper is an attempt to analyse spatial patterns of housing shortage, variations in the levels of deprivation and causal relationship between housing shortage (dependent variable) and selected variables of deprivation (independent variables) among the twenty eight states and seven union territories (UTs) of India. The present study is based on secondary sources of data obtained from Census of India publications , New Delhi. The boundary of state/union territory has been taken as the unit of study. The study reveals that there is a high level of housing shortage in the states i.e. Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, West Bengal, Orissa Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, and there is low level of housing shortage in the states lying in the north-eastern, north-western and south-western parts of India. The level of socio-economic deprivation is high in the northcentral states, and it decreases towards the north, south, east and north-eastern parts into medium level of socio-economic deprivation in the country. These spatial variations in the levels of socio-economic deprivation might have been due to poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, poor housing conditions, slum population, etc. in the country.