• Neelu S Kumar
• Boopathi S
• Suja D

Indoor air pollution caused by the solid cooking fuel is one of the most predominant health threats globally and India in particular. Tribes are economically, socially and environmentally vulnerable and ethnic group of society got severally affected by indoor pollution. Improper, inadequate housing conditions of tribal households till relay on unprocessed bio-fuel as their primary source of cooking and the accessibility of low risk fuel is a challenge for them. They were not only weaker in using low risk fuel but also in housing conditions and other household amenities. In India, those states provide good housing conditions were also good in using low risk fuel and vies versa. This paper focuses the relation between the housing conditions of the tribes with respect to cooking fuel consumed by them in different states of India with the help of secondary source of information computed from the census of India 2011. The result shows a strong positive effect between living condition and the use of low risk fuels by the tribes. The use of low risk fuel is a millennium development goal and housing is a basic necessity, it is necessary to probe more in this area for the sustainable development of the nation.

Indoor air pollution, Tribes, Unprocessed bio fuels, Low risk cooking materials, High risk cooking materials, Housing conditions.

"TRIBAL HOUSING CONDITIONS AND INDOOR AIR POLLUTION: PREPARATION OF LOW RISK FUEL INDEX WITH USE OF CENSUS 2011 DATA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.757-770, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906U02.pdf

"TRIBAL HOUSING CONDITIONS AND INDOOR AIR POLLUTION: PREPARATION OF LOW RISK FUEL INDEX WITH USE OF CENSUS 2011 DATA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp757-770, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906U02.pdf