and hygienic accommodation to its citizens remains one of the most serious challenges India is facing today. The problem … requirements of housing in rural India, present government initiatives and most importantly the technological requirements for … shelter to all. Throughout the discussion, a person without a permanent house (as defined in Census of India 2001) is referred …

-beneficiaries) through a structured questionnaire from Sonepur district of Odisha (India). A livelihood security index (LSI) is constructed …

workers separately. We use household level national data for rural India for the period January to June 1994. We use robust …

rural poor, the government of India has introduced a self-employment type poverty alleviation programme namely National … structured questionnaire from Sonepur district of Odisha (India). A livelihood security index (LSI) was constructed to capture …