policies and problems in rural India Lahiri, Debabrata creator text xu| 1996 continuing ng p.83-86,96 The author's categorization of houses into pucca, semi-pucca, kuccha, and semi-kuccha sheds light on the status of houses, rural and urban. Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Lakshadweep and Chandigarh figure in the case of rural households owning pucca houses. Service facilities available to rural households are interlinked with the availability of safe drinking water facilities and toilets, the author elaborates. Appropriate technology suited to the construction of low cost houses is to be evolved as the National Housing Policy invokes. - Reproduced Rural development - India Housing - India Housing Kurukshetra 180718