Lok Sabha Question No. 190 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-02-02
Subject: Open Defecation Free Districts
Ministry: DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION
Asked by: JYOTI DHURVE, NARANBHAI KACHHADIA

## Government of India

## Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 190 TO BE ANSWERED ON 02-02-2017

## Open Defecation Free Districts

## †190. SHRIMATI JYOTI DHURVE: SHRI NARANBHAI KACHHADIYA:

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

- (a) whether Porbander district was declared as Open Defecation Free (ODF) on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti last year and if so, the details thereof; and
- (b) the number of villages and districts in the country which have been declared ODF till second anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), separately and State-wise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF DRINKING WATER & SANITATION

## (SHRI RAMESH CHANDAPPA JIGAJINAGI)

- (a)  Porbandar  district  was  declared  Open  Defecation  Free  (ODF)  on  2 nd October,  2016.  A function  was  organised on 2 nd October,  2016 at  Porbandar  under  chairmanship of  Hon'ble Chief  Minister  of  Gujarat.  Hon'ble  Minister,  Rural  Development,  Panchayati  Raj  and Drinking Water and Sanitation, Govt. of India have also attended function.
- (b) State-wise, the number of villages and districts have been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) upto 2.10.2016 is at Annexure-1.

## Statement referred in part (b) of the reply to Lok Sabha Un-starred Question No.190 due for reply on 02-02-2017

## State/UT-wise, ODF declared districts and villages as on 2.10.2016

| S.N.   | State/UT          |   ODF declared District |   ODF declared villages |
|--------|-------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
| 1      | A&NIslands        |                       0 |                       0 |
| 2      | Andhra Pradesh    |                       0 |                    1717 |
| 3      | Arunachal Pradesh |                       0 |                     895 |
| 4      | Assam             |                       0 |                     355 |
| 5      | Bihar             |                       0 |                     385 |
| 6      | Chhattisgarh      |                       0 |                    6666 |
| 7      | D&NHaveli         |                       0 |                       0 |
| 8      | Goa               |                       0 |                       0 |
| 9      | Gujarat           |                       3 |                    7081 |
| 10     | Haryana           |                       3 |                    3055 |
| 11     | Himachal Pradesh  |                       4 |                   11571 |
| 12     | Jammu &Kashmir    |                       0 |                      32 |
| 13     | Jharkhand         |                       0 |                    1220 |
| 14     | Karnataka         |                       4 |                    4896 |
| 15     | Kerala            |                       0 |                    1610 |
| 16     | Madhya Pradesh    |                       2 |                    6473 |
| 17     | Maharashtra       |                       1 |                   11991 |
| 18     | Manipur           |                       0 |                      82 |
| 19     | Meghalaya         |                       1 |                    2843 |
| 20     | Mizoram           |                       0 |                     119 |
| 21     | Nagaland          |                       0 |                     161 |
| 22     | Odisha            |                       0 |                    2100 |
| 23     | Puducherry        |                       0 |                       0 |
| 24     | Punjab            |                       1 |                    1690 |
| 25     | Rajasthan         |                       4 |                   11432 |
| 26     | Sikkim            |                       4 |                     446 |
| 27     | Tamil Nadu        |                       0 |                    2122 |
| 28     | Telangana         |                       0 |                    1510 |
| 29     | Tripura           |                       0 |                       5 |
| 30     | Uttar Pradesh     |                       0 |                    2141 |
| 31     | Uttarakhand       |                       0 |                    3449 |
| 32     | West Bengal       |                       3 |                   11431 |
|        |                   |                      30 |                   97478 |