How many Old Age Homes are there in India?

I have compiled the data from HelpAge Directory 2009
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SN	State / UT	Numb OAH
1	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	0
2	Andhra Pradesh	114
3	Aru0chal Pradesh	0
4	Assam	16
5	Bihar	1
6	Chandigarh	8
7	Chhattisgarh	2
8	Dadra and 0gar Haveli	0
9	Daman and Diu	0
10	Delhi	36
11	Goa	25
12	Gujarat	77
13	Haryana	12
14	Himachal Pradesh	6
15	Jammu and Kashmir	5
16	Jharkhand	1
17	Kar0taka	91
18	Kerala	182
19	Lakshadweep	0
20	Madhya Pradesh	16
21	Maharashtra	133
22	Manipur	7
23	Meghalaya	1
24	Mizoram	0
25	Nagaland	0
26	Orissa	38
27	Puducherry	3
28	Punjab	12
29	Rajasthan	12
30	Sikkim	0
31	Tamil 0du	251
32	Tripura	6
33	Uttar Pradesh	28
34	Uttarakhand	8
35	West Bengal	164
	Total	1508

Comments: See how the OAHs are unevenly distributed. Small UTs like Goa and Delhi have 25 and 36 OAHs; Large States like Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have just 28 and 16 OAHs; Bihar, known as a Bhimary state, has only one! Southern states fare much better having an average of 135 per state. Tamilnadu (and not Kerala) tops the list with 251 OAHs but nearly half of them have not furnished any details which makes one guess that most of them are only on paper. Similar is the case with West Bengal, where out of 164 OAHs details of 115 are not known). Zero in the table should actually be read as “Not known” or Not available.

Do you know of any studies that assess the requirement of old age homes in India?

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Vyasamoorthy

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