Lok Sabha Question No. 275 (STARRED), answered on 2017-08-03
Subject: Villages Declared as ODF
Ministry: DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION
Asked by: RANJEET RANJAN, VINCENT H PALA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *275 (15 th Position) TO BE ANSWERED ON 03-08-2017

## Villages Declared as ODF

## *275. SHRIMATI RANJEET RANJAN: SHRI VINCENT H. PALA:

Will the Minister of DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of villages declared as Open Defecation Free (ODF) after Ist and 2nd verifications by the respective State Governments, out of 2,04,245 villages which were self-declared by Gram Panchayats as ODF as on 23.06.2017, State/UT-wise;
- (b) whether the Government is regularly paying the 'commitment fee' of 0.5% on World Bank loan from the day of the signing of the agreement in 2015 under Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM);
- (c) if so, the details thereof including the total amount of fee paid by the Government till date;
- (d)  whether  the  Government  has  appointed  the  third  party  surveying/  monitoring  agency  for  the SBM and if so, the details thereof; and
- (e)  if  not,  the  manner  in  which  the  Government  proposes  to  successfully  apply  for  the  second tranche of the World Bank loan amounting to US $229 million?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

- (a) to (e) A Statement is laid on the table of the House.

## Statement referred to in reply to Lok Sabha Starred Question No. *275 for 03.08.2017

(a) A statement regarding State/UT-wise, Open Defecation Free (ODF) declared and ODF verified villages by the respective State Governments, as on 23.06.2017 is at Annexure-1.

(b) to (e) The loan agreement for Swachh Bharat Mission Support Operation was signed between World Bank and the Government of India on 30th March, 2016.

The total  World Bank  credit obtained  for the Project  is  US  $  1500  million  of  which  US  $  1475 million  is  for  providing  incentivisation  to  States  on  the  basis  of  their  performance  as  per  certain performance indicators known as Disbursement Linked Indicators (DLIs) and US$ 25 million for strengthening  the  Programme  Management  and  Capacity  Building  at  National  Level  in  MDWS through an Investment Project Financing (IPF). The commitment  charge payable by the Government has been fixed to be a quarter of one percent (0.25%) per annum on the unwithdrawn loan balance.

As part of the World Bank Project, an Independent Verification Agency (IVA) has been appointed to  conduct  National  Annual  Rural  Sanitation  Survey  (NARSS) which shall  measure and provide statistically  representative  estimates  for  progress  made  by  all  States/UTs  against  the  three  DLIs. The first and base round of survey is to be scheduled to start from the month of September/October.

## Statement referred in part (a) of the reply to Lok Sabha Starred Question No.275 due for reply on 03-08-2017

## State/UT-wise, Total ODF declared and verified villages

| S.N.   | State/UT          |   ODF declared villages |   ODF verified villages |   %ODF verified villages |
|--------|-------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|--------------------------|
| 1      | A&NIslands        |                       3 |                       0 |                     0    |
| 2      | Andhra Pradesh    |                    4418 |                    1550 |                    35.08 |
| 3      | Arunachal Pradesh |                    2613 |                       0 |                     0    |
| 4      | Assam             |                    1631 |                     164 |                    10.06 |
| 5      | Bihar             |                    2208 |                      63 |                     2.85 |
| 6      | Chhattisgarh      |                   12832 |                    8526 |                    66.44 |
| 7      | D&NHaveli         |                       0 |                       0 |                     0    |
| 8      | Daman& Diu        |                       0 |                       0 |                     0    |
| 9      | Goa               |                       0 |                       0 |                     0    |
| 10     | Gujarat           |                   15842 |                   14647 |                    92.46 |
| 11     | Haryana           |                    6896 |                    5989 |                    86.85 |
| 12     | Himachal Pradesh  |                   15978 |                   15978 |                   100    |
| 13     | Jammu & Kashmir   |                     180 |                       3 |                     1.67 |
| 14     | Jharkhand         |                    5238 |                    1020 |                    19.47 |
| 15     | Karnataka         |                    7909 |                    2383 |                    30.13 |
| 16     | Kerala            |                    2035 |                    2033 |                    99.9  |
| 17     | Madhya Pradesh    |                   16558 |                    1780 |                    10.75 |
| 18     | Maharashtra       |                   24030 |                   11024 |                    45.88 |
| 19     | Manipur           |                     175 |                      61 |                    34.86 |
| 20     | Meghalaya         |                    3778 |                    2405 |                    63.66 |
| 21     | Mizoram           |                     217 |                     175 |                    80.65 |
| 22     | Nagaland          |                     424 |                     302 |                    71.23 |
| 23     | Odisha            |                    4875 |                     258 |                     5.29 |
| 24     | Puducherry        |                       0 |                       0 |                     0    |
| 25     | Punjab            |                    5203 |                     945 |                    18.16 |
| 26     | Rajasthan         |                   20041 |                   10311 |                    51.45 |
| 27     | Sikkim            |                     441 |                     441 |                   100    |
| 28     | Tamil Nadu        |                    3699 |                     848 |                    22.93 |
| 29     | Telangana         |                    2020 |                     675 |                    33.42 |
| 30     | Tripura           |                       5 |                       0 |                     0    |
| 31     | Uttar Pradesh     |                    7785 |                     936 |                    12.02 |
| 32     | Uttarakhand       |                   15473 |                    9582 |                    61.93 |
| 33     | West Bengal       |                   21738 |                   13357 |                    61.45 |
|        | Total             |                  204245 |                  105456 |                    51.63 |