More than 2.5m homes have no electricity at all and 70% of rural households still rely on wood fuel.

By 1975 only 8 percent of rural households owned a car.

Most traditional rural households have their own ponds for pisciculture.

In 2005, there were 6.4 air-conditioners per 100 rural households, a 35-fold increase from a decade earlier.

She was one of four children who grew up in a well-to-do rural household.

This information was used to help draft an Act that guarantees every rural household has 100 days of employment a year.

Even where electricity was available for lighting, most rural households cooked by wood fire.

The council has stopped collecting rubbish from nearly 700 rural households.

The private plots were also an important source of income for rural households.

There were 40,494 total rural households in 2010, with an average household size of 4.2.