Lok Sabha Question No. 1065 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-12-21
Subject: Shortage of Drinking Water
Ministry: DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION
Asked by: HARINDER SINGH KHALSA, RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY, NISHIKANT  DUBEY, RAJESH PANDEY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1065 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21.12.2017

## Shortage of Drinking Water

## 1065. SHRI HARINDER SINGH KHALSA, SHRI RAVINDRA KUMAR PANDEY, SHRI NISHIKANT DUBEY, SHRI RAJESH PANDEY

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

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  taken  any  steps  to  formulate  a  long  term  planning  for assessing and tackling the storage of drinking water in the future and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) the number of villages out of the total villages in the country which do not have access to clean drinking water as on date, State/UT-wise;
- (c) the  action plan  to  provide  clean  drinking  water  to  those  villages  during  the  next  five years, year-wise; and
- (d) the details of targets set for providing clean drinking water to all the villages?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE FOR DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION (SHRI S. S. AHLUWALIA)

a) Rural drinking Water Supply is a State subject. Under National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), this Ministry provides financial and technical assistance to States for providing safe drinking water in rural areas. To enhance the availability of drinking water, the Ministry has  suggested  adopting  water  conservation  measures  like  roof  top  rainwater harvesting,  erecting  sustainability  structures  for  water  conservation  etc.  Moreover  Hydro Geomorphological  Maps  (HGM)  is  being  used  for  accurately  locating  new  drinking  water sources in the field. In this way Government of India assists various State Governments for taking  steps  to  cover  rural  habitations  and  households  with  adequate  safe  drinking  water supply on a continuous basis. Further, the focus of the Ministry now is to move towards rural water supply schemes based on safe and perennial surface water sources to ensure long term sustainability of source and drinking water security in the event of crisis.

(b) This  Ministry  maintains  information  in  terms  of  habitations  instead  of  number    of villages. As per information available on Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of  this  Ministry, State  /  UT-wise  number of  habitations  which  do  not  have  access  to  clean drinking water i.e. Quality Affected habitations (i.e. containing at least one contaminant) is at Annexure .

(c) & (d) This Ministryhas prepared a Strategic Plan for the rural drinking water sector for the period 2011-2022 for providing the piped water supply in the rural areas. As per this, by 2022, the  goal  is  to  ensure  that  at  least  90%  of  rural  households  are  provided  with  piped  water supply,  at  least  80%  of  rural  households  have  piped  water  supply  with  a  household connection.

The execution of rural drinking water supply schemes is done by the State governments after getting the same approved by the State Level Scheme Sanctioning Committee (SLSSC). The Ministry  has written to  the  States  to  take  up  schemes  to provide  long  time  solution  of providing drinking water to habitations affected by contamination on an urgent basis . As a short  term  measure  the  States  have  been  asked  to provide  at  least 8  to  10  litres  of  potable drinking  water  to  habitations  affected  by  arsenic  and  fluoride  contamination  on  an  urgent basis through community water purification plants.

| Annexure                                                                                                 | Annexure                                                                                                 | Annexure                                                                                                 |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Annexure referred to in reply to part (b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Q. No- 1065 due for reply on 21.12.2017 | Annexure referred to in reply to part (b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Q. No- 1065 due for reply on 21.12.2017 | Annexure referred to in reply to part (b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Q. No- 1065 due for reply on 21.12.2017 |
| S.No.                                                                                                    | State                                                                                                    | Quality Affected Habitations                                                                             |
| 1                                                                                                        | ANDAMAN and NICOBAR                                                                                      | 0                                                                                                        |
| 2                                                                                                        | ANDHRA PRADESH                                                                                           | 418                                                                                                      |
| 3                                                                                                        | ARUNACHALPRADESH                                                                                         | 31                                                                                                       |
| 4                                                                                                        | ASSAM                                                                                                    | 11024                                                                                                    |
| 5                                                                                                        | BIHAR                                                                                                    | 4231                                                                                                     |
| 6                                                                                                        | CHATTISGARH                                                                                              | 1170                                                                                                     |
| 7                                                                                                        | GOA                                                                                                      | 0                                                                                                        |
| 8                                                                                                        | GUJARAT                                                                                                  | 0                                                                                                        |
| 9                                                                                                        | HARYANA                                                                                                  | 128                                                                                                      |
| 10                                                                                                       | HIMACHALPRADESH                                                                                          | 0                                                                                                        |
| 11                                                                                                       | JAMMU AND KASHMIR                                                                                        | 16                                                                                                       |
| 12                                                                                                       | JHARKHAND                                                                                                | 2896                                                                                                     |
| 13                                                                                                       | KARNATAKA                                                                                                | 1065                                                                                                     |
| 14                                                                                                       | KERALA                                                                                                   | 363                                                                                                      |
| 15                                                                                                       | MADHYA PRADESH                                                                                           | 187                                                                                                      |
| 16                                                                                                       | MAHARASHTRA                                                                                              | 283                                                                                                      |
| 17                                                                                                       | MANIPUR                                                                                                  | 0                                                                                                        |
| 18                                                                                                       | MEGHALAYA                                                                                                | 32                                                                                                       |
| 19                                                                                                       | MIZORAM                                                                                                  | 0                                                                                                        |
| 20                                                                                                       | NAGALAND                                                                                                 | 30                                                                                                       |
| 21                                                                                                       | ODISHA                                                                                                   | 3051                                                                                                     |
| 22                                                                                                       | PUDUCHERRY                                                                                               | 0                                                                                                        |
| 23                                                                                                       | PUNJAB                                                                                                   | 3645                                                                                                     |
| 24                                                                                                       | RAJASTHAN                                                                                                | 19893                                                                                                    |
| 25                                                                                                       | SIKKIM                                                                                                   | 0                                                                                                        |
| 26                                                                                                       | TAMILNADU                                                                                                | 198                                                                                                      |
| 27                                                                                                       | TELANGANA                                                                                                | 1350                                                                                                     |
| 28                                                                                                       | TRIPURA                                                                                                  | 2544                                                                                                     |
| 29                                                                                                       | UTTAR PRADESH                                                                                            | 1379                                                                                                     |
| 30                                                                                                       | UTTARAKHAND                                                                                              | 16                                                                                                       |
| 31                                                                                                       | WEST BENGAL                                                                                              | 18812                                                                                                    |
| Total                                                                                                    | Total                                                                                                    | 72762                                                                                                    |

(source: format C-17)