Glossary

A room occupied or designed for occupancy by one or more persons for study, living, sleeping, kitchen if it is used for living room, but not including bathrooms, water-closet, compartments, laundries, serving and storage pantries, corridors, cellars and spaces that are not used frequently or during extended periods. Most regulations required a habitable room to be at least 100 sq ft

 The place or type of site where an organism or population naturally occurs.

is less than a village and consists of a dozen households and subsidiary to other settlements.

 Septage is applied to the soil directly from a hauler truck that uses a splash plate to improve distribution. The same truck that pumps out the septic tank can be used for transporting and disposing the septage.

It is the time between successive vehicles as they pass a point on the road.

 In 1965 during theConstitutive Assembly of ICOMOS,2 the scope of heritage was redefined. Heritage wasthen defined as monuments and sites:

Article 3:1

The term monument shall include all real property, … whether they contain buildings or not, having archaeological, architectural, historic or ethnographical interest and may include besides the furnishing preserved within them

The term site shall be defined as a group of elements, either natural or man-made, or combinations of the two, which it is in the public interest to conserve.

Roads are generally classified into two major categories- Urban and Rural

1. Urban Roads -

(a) Expressways

(b) Arterial Roads

(c) Sub-arterial Roads

(d) Collector Roads

(e) Local Roads

2. Rural Roads -

(a) National Highways

(b) State Highways

(c) Other District Roads

(d) Village Roads.

In the context of planning, 'house' means a building for human habitation. It can take many forms, a mud-hut with a single room to a place with 500 rooms. For modern planning, the majority of houses are either one, two or three storey single-family dwellings and either detached, semi-detached or terraced i.e., structurally joined in rows of three or more. Except in housing statistics, the term is not usually applied to single-floor dwellings in multi-storey building; these are called 'apartments' in USA and most European countries and 'flats' in Great Britain.

A household is a group of persons who commonly live together and would take their meals from the common kitchen unless the exigencies of work prevent any of them from doing so. There may be households of persons related by blood or a household of unrelated persons or mix of both.

Is a group of persons who commonly live together and would take their meals from a common kitchen unless the exigencies of work prevented any of them form doing so. There may be a household of persons related by blood or a household of unrelated persons of having a mix of both. Household such as boarding houses, messes, hostels, residential hostels, rescue homes, jails ashrams etc. these are called "institutional households". There may be one member households, two member households or multi-member household. For census purposes each one of these types is regarded as a 'household'.

An industry conducted by the household himself/ herself and or members of the household at home or within the village in rural area and only within the precincts of the house where the household lived in urban areas. A household industry is one that is engaged in production, processing, serving, repairing or making and selling (but not merely selling) of gods.

The enumeration of the houseless population was carried out in possible places where houseless population are likely to live such as on roadside pavements, in hume pipe, under staircase or in the open, temples mandaps, platforms.

The enumeration of the houseless population was carried out in possible places where houseless population are likely to live such as on roadside pavements, in hume pipe, under staircase or in the open, temples mandaps, platforms.

It is measured as the number of dwellings of standard quality that a given expenditure could purchase.

Covers financing at al stages in the development and sale of housing from land purchase to construction, installation of on-site infrastructure, and mortgage credit. Some stages, such as construction, require short-term loans; other, such as mortgage financing are long-term.

Number of dwelling units required for households without shelter and households occupying unacceptable living quarters, or The total need for housing irrespective of the capability of the individuals/ households to be able to afford it.

A housing shortage is the amount by which the demand for housing at a given price exceeds the supply of housing.

Incomes, city size, rate of urban growth and policy together define the housing situation in any city.

It is a capital god with a long life complicates the analysis of housing demand.

The total supply of housing that is made available, or existing, by various sources like Government/ non-Governmental agencies, to meet the demand and need of the housing.

Is a habitat comprising of man made and natural environment in which man lives works, raises his family and seeks his physical spiritual and intellectual well being

 A superstore of at least 50,000 sq.ft (4600 sq.m) of sales-area.