Lok Sabha Question No. 1043 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-02-08
Subject: Awareness against Open Defecation
Ministry: DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION
Asked by: KIRRON KHER

## Government of India

## Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1043

TO BE ANSWERED ON 08-02-2018

## Awareness against OpenDefecation

## 1043. SHRIMATI KIRRON KHER:

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

- (a)  the  current  statistics  for  opendefecation  in  the country  with  specificreference  to  Punjab and Chandigarh;
- (b) the number of villages declaredOpen Defecation Free in the past twoyears;
- (c) the States/UTs with the worstopen defecation rates; and
- (d)  the  measures  taken  by  theGovernment  to  spread  awareness  againstopen  defecation  in villages?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE FOR MINISTRY OF DRINKING WATER & SANITATION

## (SHRI RAMESH CHANDAPPA JIGAJINAGI)

- (a) 312 Districts, 2,816 Blocks, 1,39,566 Gram Panchayats(GPs) and 3,16,975 Villages have been  declared  Open  Defecation  Free  (ODF)  as  on  06.02.2018.  In  addition,  11  States/UT namely  Sikkim,  Himachal  Pradesh,  Kerala,  Uttarakhand,  Haryana,  Gujarat,  Chandigarh, Daman and Diu, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Meghalaya  have  also been declared ODF.

Out of 12360 villages of Punjab, 10751(86.98%) villages  have been declared ODF. All 13 villages of Chandigarh have already been declared ODF.

- (b)  State/UT-wise,  number  of  villages  declaredOpen  Defecation  Free(ODF)  in  the  past twoyears and current year is at Annexure-1.
- (c)  The  performance  of  States/UTs  of  Goa,  A  &  N  Islands,  Tripura,  Jammu  &  Kashmir, Puducherry,  Bihar,  Odisha,  D  &  N  Haveli,  Uttar  Pradesh,  Manipur,  Assam,  Telangana, Jharkhand,  Madhya  Pradesh,  Andhra  Pradesh  and  Nagaland  in  declaring  Open  Defecation Free (ODF) is below national average.
- (d)  Under  Swachh  Bharat  Mission  (Gramin),  upto  5%  of  total  resources  can  be  spent  on Information,  Education  and  Communication(IEC)  for  State  and  District  level.  3%  of  the resources can be used at the Central level for the same purpose. Massive media campaigns have been started at National level using Audio Visual (TV) and Audio (Radio). States are also carrying out  IEC  campaign  including interpersonal  Communication  (IPC).  Also cleanliness  campaigns  are  held  at  regular  intervals.    In  order  to  educate  the  people,  the programme  lays  emphasis  on  community  involvement.  Many  States  are  focusing  on community  approach,  wherein the  people are  directly  triggered  and  made  aware  about  the importance of sanitation and hygiene using some triggering tools. Besides, conventional IEC tools are also used to educate the people. Swachh Bharat Whatsapp group has been created involving officials of GoI and all the States. Similar groups for individual States have been formed. A Facebook page for SBM(G) has also been created. Celebrities have been roped as brand ambassador.

Annexure-1.

## Statement referred in part (b) of the reply to LokSabha Un-starred Question No.1043 due for reply on 08-02-2018

## State/UT-wise, ODF declared villages in last 2 years and current year

| S.N.   | State/UT          |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |   2017-18 (Upto 6.2.18) |
|--------|-------------------|-----------|-----------|-------------------------|
| 1      | A&NIslands        |         0 |         0 |                       3 |
| 2      | Andhra Pradesh    |       349 |      2803 |                    4810 |
| 3      | Arunachal Pradesh |       159 |      1110 |                    4120 |
| 4      | Assam             |       150 |       373 |                    6994 |
| 5      | Bihar             |       176 |      1346 |                    2335 |
| 6      | Chandigarh        |         0 |         0 |                      13 |
| 7      | Chhattisgarh      |      1876 |     10534 |                    6359 |
| 8      | D &NHaveli        |         0 |         0 |                      12 |
| 9      | Daman &Diu        |         0 |         0 |                      26 |
| 10     | Goa               |         0 |         0 |                       0 |
| 11     | Gujarat           |      3320 |     11669 |                    3272 |
| 12     | Haryana           |      1103 |      5380 |                     425 |
| 13     | Himachal Pradesh  |      8202 |      7723 |                       0 |
| 14     | Jammu &Kashmir    |        21 |        98 |                     396 |
| 15     | Jharkhand         |        69 |      3555 |                    7437 |
| 16     | Karnataka         |      1628 |      5130 |                   11512 |
| 17     | Kerala            |         0 |      2027 |                       0 |
| 18     | Madhya Pradesh    |      1888 |     14216 |                    4556 |
| 19     | Maharashtra       |      6053 |     17595 |                   11830 |
| 20     | Manipur           |        61 |        90 |                     550 |
| 21     | Meghalaya         |      1978 |      1684 |                    2366 |
| 22     | Mizoram           |        80 |       136 |                     372 |
| 23     | Nagaland          |       139 |       142 |                     395 |
| 24     | Odisha            |      1249 |      1307 |                    5166 |
| 25     | Puducherry        |         0 |         0 |                      24 |
| 26     | Punjab            |       799 |      3889 |                    6063 |
| 27     | Rajasthan         |      6100 |     12480 |                   20801 |
| 28     | Sikkim            |       441 |         0 |                       0 |
| 29     | Tamil Nadu        |      1118 |      2409 |                    4293 |
| 30     | Telangana         |       806 |      1153 |                    2121 |
| 31     | Tripura           |         0 |         0 |                      17 |
| 32     | Uttar Pradesh     |       212 |      5818 |                   12353 |
| 33     | Uttarakhand       |      1338 |     12076 |                    2059 |
| 34     | West Bengal       |      7790 |     12271 |                   12176 |
|        |                   |     47105 |    137014 |                  132856 |