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The National Statistics Office (NSO) released the findings of India’s first-ever National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), conducted from July 2025 to June 2026.
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What Is the Survey?
- India’s first all-India household travel survey
- It records why people travel, how they travel, how far, for how long and how much they spend
- Covered 4.92 lakh households and over 20.34 lakh persons
- Conducted by the NSO under MoSPI
- Important note: in this survey, “travel” means a trip of 1 km or more. Shorter trips are not counted
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- NHTS — India’s first household travel survey; July 2025 to June 2026; 4.92 lakh households, 20.34 lakh persons; by the NSO under MoSPI
- “Travel” means trips of 1 km or more
- Students: 66.4 per cent travel 1 km+; walking 37, bus 29.5, bicycle 15.8 per cent
- Workers: 57.6 per cent travel 1 km+; urban 64.1, rural 54.5 per cent
- Two-wheelers: 42.6 per cent overall; 52.3 urban, 37.1 rural
- Gender gap: 61.9 per cent men against 41.9 per cent women
- Average travel time: 23 minutes (students), 25 minutes (workers)
- Monthly commute cost: ₹785 average; ₹1,044 urban, ₹612 rural
- Overnight travel: buses 55.8, railways 17.7 per cent; 70.2 per cent for social and religious reasons
- The female work-travel gap connects to India’s low female labour force participation of 41.7 per cent (PLFS 2023-24)
