More than half of rural India still depends on hand pumps for drinking water but over a half now uses electricity 26% have TV sets and 10% even have cable TV connections. But just 4% in rural India have a fridge. You're more likely to find a radio or tape-recorder in rural India. The latest result of the government survey shows that cars remain the stuff of dreams. This is some of the mass of date released by the government in its report of a nationwide survey carried out by the national Sample Survey Organisation.