Cooking fuel, sanitation, and electricity are the three things that decreased the deprivation rate during 2019-20, according to a recent report by the NITI Aayog. Even then, more than 40 per cent of the population depends on dung, crops, shrubs, wood, charcoal, or coal as cooking fuel in 2019-20, the report stated.

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Those deprived of cooking fuel constituted 58.5 per cent of the population, and 52 per cent required sanitation facilities. Those deprived of sanitation constituted 29.8 per cent of the people in 2019-20. Besides, the percentage of those who did not have electricity decreased from 12.2 per cent in 2015-16 to 3.2 per cent during 2019-20. The NITI Aayog will create its 2019-20 after the NFHS gives its final findings for the year. The NFHS can take 5 to 6 months to make its data sets for 2019-20, a senior official said.