Census report says Mizoram only state without homeless

The CM,however,admitted that 2.8 per cent of people in the state do live in houses marked as “dilapidated”. Most of the houses (62.3 per cent) have been categorised ‘good’ while 34.9 per cent are ‘liveable’,he pointed out.

Also,the country’s most literate state after Kerala,Mizoram scores a high — roughly 93.4 per cent — in sanitation,says the Census 2011 data.

As many as 2,03,185 of the state’s 2,21,077 families possess latrines within their premises,while 3,342 families (1.5 per cent) use public latrines. The state,however,has 14,550 persons — roughly 5.5 per cent — who do defecate in the open.

Compared to this,Meghalaya — which boasts of Mawllynnong being the cleanest village in Asia — has a disappointing one-third of its population (34.3 per cent of its 538,299 households) defecating in the open.