Lok Sabha Question No. 2400 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-16
Subject: Water Testing Laboratories
Ministry: DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION
Asked by: AJAY (TENI) MISRA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF DRINKING WATER & SANITATION LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2400 TO BE ANSWERED ON 16.03.2017

## Water Testing Laboratories

## †2400.  SHRI AJAY MISRA TENI

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

- (a) whether water available in most of the areas of Uttar Pradesh bordering Nepal is not fit for drinking due to arsenic and fluoride contents;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether laboratories for testing the quality of water have been set up with Central financial and technical assistance in Uttar Pradesh and other States of the country;
- (d) if so, the details thereof and alternative arrangements made at places where laboratories are not available, Statewise;
- (e) whether the Government proposes to set up any monitoring system for getting optimum result; and
- (f) if so, the details thereof?

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

- (a) & (b)   District-wise  number  of  arsenic  and  fluoride  affected  habitations  in  Uttar  Pradesh including bordering districts namely  Bahraich, Balrampur, Kheri, Maharajganj, Pilibhit, Shravasti &  Siddhath  Nagar,    as  reported  by  the  Uttar  Pradesh  State  into  the  Integrated  Management Information System (IMIS) of the Ministry as on 10 th   March, 2017 is at Annexure-I.
- (c) to (f) Rural drinking water supply is a state subject.  This Ministry supplements the efforts of the States by providing them with technical and financial assistance through the centrally sponsored National  Rural  Drinking  Water  Programme  (NRDWP)  for  improving  the  coverage  of  clean drinking  water  to  rural  population.  It  is  the  State  Governments  who  plan,  design,  execute  and operate schemes for providing safe drinking water.

Under National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), upto 3% of fund is provided for water quality monitoring and surveillance, which inter alia include taking up works relating to setting up of new / up-gradation of State /district/sub district water quality testing laboratories, providing  chemicals  and  consumables  to  laboratories,  hiring  of  manpower  in  laboratories, providing field test kits/refills and bacteriological vials to Gram Panchayats etc.

State-wise number of drinking water quality testing laboratories set up at various levels and  reported  by  the  States  into  the  Integrated  Management  Information  System  (IMIS)  of  the Ministry  as  on  10 th   March,  2017  including  Uttar  Pradesh  is  at  Annexure-II.  Wherever  such facilities  are  not  available,  states  have  been  asked  to  set  up  the  laboratory  urgently.  In  the meanwhile services of locally available laboratory can be availed for testing quality of drinking water.

In  order  to  get  optimum  results  /  correct  results  for  drinking  water  quality  testing, Government of India has published Uniform Drinking Water Quality Protocol in the year 2013 and widely circulated up to district level in the country, which incorporates minimum standards for setting up of laboratories and water quality testing procedures.

Annexure-I :  referred in the reply to Lok  Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2400 due for reply on 16/03/2017 reported by the State into the Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of

District-wise number of arsenic and fluoride affected habitations in Uttar Pradesh as the Ministry as on 10 th   March, 2017

|   S. No. | Name of the District   |   Fluoride affected habitations |   Arsenic affected habitations |
|----------|------------------------|---------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|        1 | AGRA                   |                              10 |                              0 |
|        2 | ALIGARH                |                               0 |                              0 |
|        3 | ALLAHABAD              |                               4 |                              0 |
|        4 | AMBEDKAR NAGAR         |                               7 |                             10 |
|        5 | AMETHI                 |                               0 |                              0 |
|        6 | AURAIYA                |                               0 |                              0 |
|        7 | AZAMGARH               |                               5 |                              2 |
|        8 | BAGHPAT                |                               3 |                              0 |
|        9 | BAHRAICH               |                               0 |                             48 |
|       10 | BALLIA                 |                               2 |                            112 |
|       11 | BALRAMPUR              |                               0 |                              0 |
|       12 | BANDA                  |                               0 |                              0 |
|       13 | BARABANKI              |                               0 |                              0 |
|       14 | BAREILLY               |                               0 |                              0 |
|       15 | BASTI                  |                               2 |                              7 |
|       16 | BIJNOR                 |                               0 |                              0 |
|       17 | BUDAUN                 |                               0 |                              0 |
|       18 | BULANDSHAHR            |                               5 |                              0 |
|       19 | CHANDAULI              |                               0 |                              0 |
|       20 | CHITRAKOOT             |                               2 |                              0 |
|       21 | DEORIA                 |                               1 |                              8 |
|       22 | ETAH                   |                               2 |                              0 |
|       23 | ETAWAH                 |                               0 |                              0 |
|       24 | FAIZABAD               |                               0 |                              0 |
|       25 | FARRUKHABAD            |                               3 |                              0 |
|       26 | FATEHPUR               |                               0 |                              0 |
|       27 | FIROZABAD              |                               0 |                              0 |
|       28 | GAUTAM BUDDHA NAGAR    |                               0 |                              0 |
|       29 | GHAZIABAD              |                               4 |                              0 |
|       30 | GHAZIPUR               |                              30 |                              0 |
|       31 | GONDA                  |                               0 |                              0 |
|       32 | GORAKHPUR              |                               1 |                              8 |
|       33 | HAMIRPUR               |                               0 |                              0 |
|       34 | HAPUR                  |                               5 |                              0 |
|       35 | HARDOI                 |                               0 |                              0 |
|       36 | JALAUN                 |                               0 |                              0 |
|       37 | JAUNPUR                |                               0 |                              0 |
|       38 | JHANSI                 |                              14 |                              0 |
|       39 | JYOTIBA PHOOLE NAGAR   |                               0 |                              0 |
|       40 | KANNAUJ                |                               0 |                              0 |
|       41 | KANPUR DEHAT           |                               5 |                              0 |
|       42 | KANPUR NAGAR           |                               0 |                              0 |
|       43 | KASGANJ                |                               0 |                              0 |

|   44 | KAUSHAMBI          |   0 |   0 |
|------|--------------------|-----|-----|
|   45 | KHERI              |   5 |  23 |
|   46 | KUSHI NAGAR        |   0 |  19 |
|   47 | LALITPUR           |   0 |   0 |
|   48 | LUCKNOW            |   0 |   1 |
|   49 | MAHAMAYANAGAR      |   0 |   0 |
|   50 | MAHARAJGANJ        |   0 |   3 |
|   51 | MAHOBA             |   1 |   0 |
|   52 | MAINPURI           |   0 |   0 |
|   53 | MATHURA            |   0 |   0 |
|   54 | MAU                |   5 |   8 |
|   55 | MEERUT             |   0 |   0 |
|   56 | MIRZAPUR           |   0 |   0 |
|   57 | MORADABAD          |   0 |   0 |
|   58 | MUZAFFARNAGAR      |   0 |   0 |
|   59 | PILIBHIT           |   2 |   0 |
|   60 | PRATAPGARH         |   0 |   0 |
|   61 | RAE BARELI         |   1 |   0 |
|   62 | RAMPUR             |   0 |   0 |
|   63 | SAHARANPUR         |   0 |   0 |
|   64 | SAMBHAL            |   0 |   1 |
|   65 | SANT KABEER NAGAR  |   0 |   6 |
|   66 | SANT RAVIDAS NAGAR |   0 |   0 |
|   67 | SHAHJAHANPUR       |   0 |   0 |
|   68 | SHAMLI             |   0 |   0 |
|   69 | SHRAVASTI          |   0 |   0 |
|   70 | SIDDHARTH NAGAR    |   4 |   5 |
|   71 | SITAPUR            |   0 |   0 |
|   72 | SONBHADRA          |  61 |   1 |
|   73 | SULTANPUR          |   1 |   0 |
|   74 | UNNAO              |   4 |   0 |
|   75 | VARANASI           |  11 |   0 |

## Annexure-II :  referred in the reply to Lok  Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2400 due for reply on 16/03/2017

State-wise number of various level drinking water quality testing laboratories, as reported by the States into the Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of the Ministry as on 10 th   March, 2017

| S. No.         | Name of the State / UT   |   State Labs (without mobile labs) |   District Labs (without mobile labs) |   Block Labs (without mobile labs) |   SubDivision Labs (without mobile labs) |   Mobile Labs (State/ District/ Block/ Sub- division Level) |   Total Labs (State/ District/ Block/ Sub-division Level) |
|----------------|--------------------------|------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------|
| 1              | ANDAMAN and NICOBAR      |                                  1 |                                     0 |                                  0 |                                        0 |                                                           2 |                                                         3 |
| 2              | ANDHRA PRADESH           |                                  1 |                                    32 |                                  0 |                                       73 |                                                           0 |                                                       106 |
| 3              | ARUNACHAL PRADESH        |                                  1 |                                    16 |                                  0 |                                       31 |                                                           1 |                                                        49 |
| 4              | ASSAM                    |                                  1 |                                    29 |                                  0 |                                       53 |                                                          20 |                                                       103 |
| 5              | BIHAR                    |                                  1 |                                    41 |                                  0 |                                        0 |                                                           0 |                                                        42 |
| 6              | CHATTISGARH              |                                  1 |                                    27 |                                  1 |                                       21 |                                                           5 |                                                        55 |
| 7              | GOA                      |                                  1 |                                     0 |                                  1 |                                        9 |                                                           0 |                                                        11 |
| 8              | GUJARAT                  |                                  1 |                                    32 |                                 47 |                                        0 |                                                           6 |                                                        86 |
| 9              | HARYANA                  |                                  0 |                                    21 |                                  0 |                                       22 |                                                           0 |                                                        43 |
| 10             | HIMACHAL PRADESH         |                                  1 |                                    14 |                                  0 |                                       28 |                                                           0 |                                                        43 |
| 11             | JAMMUAND KASHMIR         |                                  0 |                                    22 |                                  2 |                                       77 |                                                           0 |                                                       101 |
| 12             | JHARKHAND                |                                  1 |                                    24 |                                  1 |                                        7 |                                                           5 |                                                        38 |
| 13             | KARNATAKA                |                                  1 |                                    44 |                                 39 |                                      106 |                                                          46 |                                                       236 |
| 14             | KERALA                   |                                  1 |                                    14 |                                  0 |                                       33 |                                                           0 |                                                        48 |
| 15             | MADHYA PRADESH           |                                  1 |                                    51 |                                  3 |                                      106 |                                                           0 |                                                       161 |
| 16             | MAHARASHTRA              |                                  1 |                                    46 |                                  3 |                                      140 |                                                           0 |                                                       190 |
| 17             | MANIPUR                  |                                  1 |                                     9 |                                  0 |                                        2 |                                                           0 |                                                        12 |
| 18             | MEGHALAYA                |                                  1 |                                     7 |                                  0 |                                       22 |                                                           0 |                                                        30 |
| 19             | MIZORAM                  |                                  1 |                                     8 |                                  0 |                                       18 |                                                           0 |                                                        27 |
| 20             | NAGALAND                 |                                  0 |                                    11 |                                  0 |                                        1 |                                                           2 |                                                        14 |
| 21             | ODISHA                   |                                  1 |                                    32 |                                  0 |                                       44 |                                                           0 |                                                        77 |
| 22             | PUDUCHERRY               |                                  0 |                                     2 |                                  0 |                                        0 |                                                           0 |                                                         2 |
| 23             | PUNJAB                   |                                  3 |                                    22 |                                  8 |                                        0 |                                                           1 |                                                        34 |
| 24             | RAJASTHAN                |                                  1 |                                    33 |                                165 |                                        0 |                                                           0 |                                                       199 |
| 25             | SIKKIM                   |                                  0 |                                     2 |                                  0 |                                        0 |                                                           0 |                                                         2 |
| 26             | TAMIL NADU               |                                  1 |                                    34 |                                  0 |                                       49 |                                                           0 |                                                        84 |
| 27             | TELANGANA                |                                  1 |                                    19 |                                  0 |                                       56 |                                                           0 |                                                        76 |
| 28             | TRIPURA                  |                                  1 |                                     8 |                                  7 |                                        6 |                                                           0 |                                                        22 |
| 29             | UTTAR PRADESH            |                                  1 |                                    76 |                                  3 |                                        2 |                                                           0 |                                                        82 |
| 30             | UTTARAKHAND              |                                  0 |                                    28 |                                  1 |                                       14 |                                                           0 |                                                        43 |
| 31 WEST BENGAL | 31 WEST BENGAL           |                                  1 |                                    18 |                                  1 |                                      201 |                                                           0 |                                                       221 |
| Total          | Total                    |                                 27 |                                   722 |                                282 |                                     1121 |                                                          88 |                                                      2240 |