Lok Sabha Question No. 4724 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-12-15
Subject: Swachhata Status Report
Ministry: DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION
Asked by: (ADV.) JOICE GEORGE, RAM CHARITRA

## Government of India

## Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4724

TO BE ANSWERED ON 15-12-2016

## Swachhata Status Report

## 4724. ADV. JOICE GEORGE: SHRI RAM CHARITRANISHAD:

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

- (a) whether the Government has recently published the Swachhta Status Report;
- (b) if so, the details and the findingsthereof;
- (c) whether more than half of the ruralpopulation of the country still defecates inopen and if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise;
- (d) whether around 30 per cent of theconstructed toilets were found to bedysfunctional in the country and if so, thedetails thereof; and
- (e) whether the Government has anyschemes/programmes to repair/renovate thedysfunctional toilets and if so, the detailsthereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE FOR MINISTRY OF DRINKING WATER & SANITATION (SHRI RAMESH CHANDAPPA JIGAJINAGI)

- (a) Yes, Madam.
- (b) The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has conducted a survey of Swachhta status  in  2015  and  has  published  the  findings  in  Swachhta  Status  Report,  2016.  The  main findings of the survey in respect of rural areas are as under :-
- 47.9% people were found to have access to a household/community toilet and using the same
- 45.30% households were found to have sanitary toilets
- Out  of  households  having  sanitary  toilets, 95.6  % persons  were  found  to  be  using them
- Out of the households having toilets, 93.9 % households had access to water for use in toilet
- 55.4% households contributed to Open Defecation
- (c) State/UT-wise, percentage of rural households defecating in the open as on 12.12.2016, as per the information uploaded by the States on the online Integrated Management Information System of Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) is at Annexure 1.
- (d) As per theSwachhtaStatus Report 2016, published by National Sample Survey Office, in rural India, of the households having sanitary toilet, 4.4% were found to be not using them.
- (e) As per the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) guidelines, the responsibility of maintenance of individual toilets lies with that household only. There is also focus on behaviour change and quality of construction, so that toilets do not become dysfunctional on those accounts. As regards the earlier dysfunctional toilets, these can be renovated through various sources such as motivation of the owner Gram Panchayat funds, Swachh Bharat Kosh, Corporate Social Responsibility Funds, micro-financing, etc.

Annexure-1 Statement referred in part (c) of the reply to Lok Sabha Un-starred Question No.4724 due for reply on 15-12-2016 State/UT-wise % households defecating in open  as on 12-12-2016

| S.N.   | STATE/UT          |   %Households defecating in open |
|--------|-------------------|----------------------------------|
| 1      | A &NISLANDS       |                            44.17 |
| 2      | ANDHRA PRADESH    |                            50.48 |
| 3      | ARUNACHAL PRADESH |                            25.58 |
| 4      | ASSAM             |                            39.12 |
| 5      | BIHAR             |                            74.1  |
| 6      | CHHATTISGARH      |                            34.6  |
| 7      | GOA               |                            23.92 |
| 8      | GUJARAT           |                            13.11 |
| 9      | HARYANA           |                            12.31 |
| 10     | HIMACHAL PRADESH  |                             0    |
| 11     | JAMMU &KASHMIR    |                            64.44 |
| 12     | JHARKHAND         |                            55.31 |
| 13     | KARNATAKA         |                            38.17 |
| 14     | KERALA            |                             0    |
| 15     | MADHYA PRADESH    |                            50.46 |
| 16     | MAHARASHTRA       |                            30.15 |
| 17     | MANIPUR           |                            16.1  |
| 18     | MEGHALAYA         |                            13.32 |
| 19     | MIZORAM           |                            14.58 |
| 20     | NAGALAND          |                            33.25 |
| 21     | ODISHA            |                            63.18 |
| 22     | PUDUCHERRY        |                            48.67 |
| 23     | PUNJAB            |                            20.19 |
| 24     | RAJASTHAN         |                            31.43 |
| 25     | SIKKIM            |                             0    |
| 26     | TAMIL NADU        |                            34.29 |
| 27     | TELANGANA         |                            55.48 |
| 28     | TRIPURA           |                            23.17 |
| 29     | UTTAR PRADESH     |                            54.59 |
| 30     | UTTARAKHAND       |                             2.39 |
| 31     | WEST BENGAL       |                            16.44 |
|        | Total             |                            42.02 |