Lok Sabha Question No. 44 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-02-02
Subject: Contamination in Water Resources
Ministry: WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT AND GANAGA REJUVENATION
Asked by: DUSHYANT CHAUTALA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT & GANGA REJUVENATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 44

ANSWERED ON 02.02.2017

## CONTAMINATION IN WATER RESOURCES

## 44. SHRI DUSHYANT CHAUTALA

Will the Minister of WATER  RESOURCES, RIVER  DEVELOPMENT  AND  GANGA REJUVENATION be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government is aware of high fluoride and arsenic content in water resources across the country, if so, the details thereof;

(b) whether the Government has conducted any study to find out the percentage of their presence in the water resources, if so, the State-wise details thereof; and

(c) whether the Government has provided financial assistance to the States for setting up of arsentic removal plants, if so, the deatils thereof?

## ANSWER

## THE  MINISTER OF  STATE FOR  WATER  RESOURCES,  RIVER DEVELOPMENT AND GANGA REJUVENATION

(DR. SANJEEV KUMAR  BALYAN)

(a)  &  (b) Ground  water  quality  data  generated  by  Central  Ground  Water  Board  (CGWB)  during various scientific studies and ground water quality monitoring indicates that ground water in isolated pockets in parts of various States is contaminated with Fluoride and Arsenic.  State-wise details are given at Annexure.

(c) Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has informed that the States are assisted technically and financially in providing safe drinking water through the centrally sponsored National Rural Drinking Water  Programme.    Upto  67%  of  funds  provided  to  the  States  under  NRDWP  can  be  utilized  for coverage  and  tackling  water  quality  problems  with  priority  to  Arsenic  and  Fluoride  affected habitations.  In addition, the States also received certain funds under the 5% Water Quality earmarked funds.

The State Governments have been directed to ensure availability of safe drinking water through Piped Water Supply as a long term measures. Since tackling this problem is a long term measure, Niti

Aayog, as a stop gap arrangement, is supporting the State Governments for installation of Community Water Purification  Plants  for  providing  safe  drinking  water  in  the  rural  habitations  of  the  Country, where,  water  is  contaminated  with  Arsenic  and  Fluoride.    To  this  end,  over  and  above  the  regular allocation of funds under NRDWP, on the recommendations of Niti Aayog, Ministry of Finance has released Rs. 800.00 Crore during the financial year 2015-16 as a onetime 100% Central assistance to the States affected with water quality from Arsenic and Fluoride in the Country.  In addition, based on the recommendations of NITI Aayog, Ministry of Finance has also released Rs. 100.00 crore each of the  State  of  Rajasthan  and  West  Bengal  during  the  financial  year  2015-16  to  ensure  supply  of  safe drinking water through surface water based piped water supply schemes in quality affected habitations as last mile connectivity.

Since the problem of contamination of water by Arsenic and Fluoride has been serious in the rural  habitations,  Central  Government  has  taken  cognizance  of  this  serious  problem  and  decided  to take  short-term  and  long  term  measures  with  a  ring  fenced  funding  to  tackle  this  problem  in  the remaining habitations of the Country.  Over and above the normal release of funds to the States, during 2016-17, under NRDWP, the centre share amounting to Rs. 746.23 crore has also been released to the States  affected  with  Arsenic  and  Fluoride  under  Water  Quality  Sub-Mission  in  the  ratio  of 90:10(Centre: State)  for Northern -Eastern States and 50:50 (Centre: State) other States focusing on mitigation of contamination of Fluoride and Arsenic in drinking water.

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Annexure referred in reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 44 dated 02.02.2017 regarding 'Contamination in Water Resources'

## States-wise Details of Districts Affected with Ground Water Contamination (Fluoride and Arsenic)

|   S. No. | State/ UT        | Fluoride (above 1.5                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | Arsenic (above 0.01                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
|----------|------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh   | mg/l) Visakhapatnam, West-Godavari Krishna, Guntur, Prakasam, Nellore, Chittoor , Kadapa, Kurnool, Ananthapur, Sirkakulam                                                                                                                                                                                         | mg/l) Guntur, Kurnool, Nellore                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
|        2 | Telangana        | Adilabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Warangal, Mahabubnagar, Medak, Nalgonda, Rangareddy, Nizamabad                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Nalgonda,                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
|        3 | Assam            | Goalpara, Kamrup, KarbiAnglong, Naugaon, Golaghat, Karimganj                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | Sivsagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Sonitpur, Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Hailakandi, Karimganj, Cachar, Barpeta, Bongaigaon, Goalpara, Dhubri, Nalbari, Nagaon, Morigaon, Kamrup,Darrang&Baksha                                                    |
|        4 | Bihar            | Aurangabad, Banka, Bhagalpur, Gaya, Jamui, Kaimur( Bhabua), Munger, Nawada, Rohtas, Jahanabd, Lakhisarai, Sheikhpura, Nalanda                                                                                                                                                                                     | Begusarai, Bhagalpur, Bhojpur, Buxar, Darbhanga, Katihar, Khagaria, Kishanganj, Lakhisarai, Munger, Patna, Purnea, Samastipur, Saran, Vaishali E.Champaran, Gopalganj, Lohardaga, Madhepura, Muzaffarpur Saharsa, Siwan,W Champaran |
|        5 | Chhattisgarh     | Bastar, Balod , Balrampur, Bemetra, Bijapur , Durg, Kanker, Kondagaon, Korba, Koriya, Raigarh, Surajpur, Surguja                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Rajnandgaon                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
|        6 | Delhi            | East Delhi, New Delhi, North West Delhi, South Delhi, South West Delhi, North Delhi, West Delhi                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | East, North east                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
|        7 | Gujarat          | Ahmedabad, Amreli, Anand, Banaskantha, Bharuch, Bhavnagar, Dahod, Gandhinagar, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Kachchh, Mehesana, Panchmahals, Patan, Porbandar, Rajkot, Sabarkantha, Surendranagar, Vadodara                                                                                                                 | Amreli, Anand, Bharuch, Bhavnagar, Dahod, Gandhinagar, Kachchh, Mehesana, Patan, Rajkot, Surendranagar, Vadodara                                                                                                                    |
|        8 | Haryana          | Ambali, Bhiwani, Fatehabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Hissar, Jhajjar, Jind, Kaithal, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Mahendergarh, Panchkula, Palwal,Panipat, Rewari, Rohtak, Sirsa, Sonepat, Yamuna Nagar                                                                                                                        | Ambala, Bhiwani, Faridabad, Fatehabad, Hissar, Jhajjar, Jind, Karnal, Panipat, Rohtak, Sirsa, Sonepat, Yamunanagar, Mahendergarh, Palwal                                                                                            |
|        9 | Himachal Pradesh | -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Kangra                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
|       10 | Jammu& Kashmir   | Jammu, Kathua                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Jammu, Kathua, Rajouri                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
|       11 | Jharkhand        | Bokaro, Dhanbad, Garhwa,Giridih, Godda, Gumla, Koderma, Pakur Palamu, Ranchi, , Sahebganj, Khunti                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Sahebganj                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
|       12 | Karnataka        | Bagalkot, Bangalore(Rural), Bangalore(Urban),Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chikaballapur Chamarajanagar, Chikmagalur, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Dharwad, Dakshina Kannada, Gadag, Gulburga, Hassan, Haveri, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramnagara , Shimoga, Tumkur, Yadgir, Uttara Kannada, Udupi | Raichur and Yadgir district                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
|       13 | Kerala           | Palakkad, Alappuzha, Idukki, Ernakulum, Thiruvananthpuram                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
|       14 | Madhya Pradesh   | Alirajpur, Balaghat, Barwani, Betul, Bhind, Bhopal,Chhatarpur, Chhindwara, Datia, Dewas, Dhar,                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | Betual,Burhanpur, Chhindwara, Dhar,                                                                                                                                                                                                 |

| S. No.   | State/ UT               | Fluoride (above 1.5 mg/l)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | Arsenic (above 0.01 mg/l)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
|----------|-------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 15       | Maharashtra             | Dindori, Guna, Gwalior, Harda, Jabalpur, Jhabua, Khargon, Mandla, Mandsaur, Morena, Narsinhpur, Neemuch, Panna, Raisen, Rajgarh, Ratlam, Sagar, Satna, Sehore, Seoni, Shahdol, Shajapur, Sheopur, Sidhi, Shivpuri, Singrauli, Uajjain, Vidisha                                                                                       | Khandwa, Mandsaur, Neemuch, Umaria                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| 16       | Manipur                 | Ahmednagar, Beed, Chandrapur, Bhandara, Dhule, Gadchiroli, Gondia, Jalna, Nagpur, Nanded, Ratnagiri, Sangli, Satara, Sindhudurg, Solapur, Wardha,Yavatmal                                                                                                                                                                            | -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| 17       | Odisha                  | -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | Bishnupur, Thoubal                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| 18       |                         | Angul, Balasore, Bhadrak,Bargarh Bolangir, Boudh, Cuttack, Deogarh Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Kandhamal ,Keonjhar, Khurda, Mayurbhanj, Nayagarh, Nawapara, Ganjam, Jagatsinghpur, Kalahandi, Koraput, Puri, Rayagada, Sambalpur, Sonepur, Sundargarh                                                                                         | Gajapati                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
|          | Punjab                  | Amritsar, Barnala, Bhatinda, Fazilka, Faridkot, Fatehgarh Sahib, Firozpur, Gurdaspur, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Mansa, Moga, Muktsar, Pathankot, Patiala, Ropar, Sangrur, SAS Nagar (Mohali), Tarn-Taran                                                                                                                                  | Mansa, Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Ropar, Faridkot, Nawashahar, Sangrur, Taran Taran                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| 19       | Rajasthan               | Ajmer, Alwar, Banswara, Barmer, Bharatpur, Baran, Bhilwara, Bikaner, Bundi, Chittaurgarh, Churu, Dausa, Dhaulpur, Dungarpur, Ganganagar, Hanumangarh, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jalore, Jhalawar Jhunjhunu, Jodhpur, Karauli, Kota, Nagaur, Pali, Pratapgarh, Rajsamand, Sirohi, Sikar, Sawai Madhopur, Tonk, Udaipur                       | Ganganagar                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| 20       | Tamil Nadu              | Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Dindigul, Erode, Karur, Kancheepuram, Krishnagiri, Namakkal, Madurai, Puddukotai, Ramanathanpuram, Salem, Sivagangai, Theni, Thiruvannamalai, Tiruchirapally, Thirunelveli, Tirupur Vellore,                                                                                                                 | Ariyalur Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, Ramnathapuram, Tiruvallur, Tirunelveli, Thiruvarur, Trichchirappalli, Tuticorin                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| 21       | Uttar Pradesh           | Agra, Aligarh, Allahabad ,Auraiya, Banda ,Bulandshahar ,Etah,Etawah,, Farrukhabad, Fatehpur, , Firozabad,GB Nagar, Ghaziabad, Hathras,Jaunpur, Kannauj , Kanpur Nagar, Kasganj (Kashiram Nagar), Lalitpur, Mahoba, Mainpuri, Mathura, Maunath Bhanjan, Pratapgarh, Rai Bareli, Shajahanpur, Sonbhadra, Sultanpur, Varanasi and Unnao | Bahraich, Balia, Balrampur, Bareilly, Basti, Bijnor, Chandauli, Ghazipur, Gonda, Gorakhpur, LakhimpurKheri, Meerut, Mirzapur, Muradabad, Rai Bareilly, SantKabir Nagar, Shajahanpur, Siddarthnagar, SantRavidasNagar, Unnao, Azamgarh, Bahraich, Badaun, Deoria, Jhansi, Kausambi, Kushinagar, Pilibhit, Maunath Bhanjan, |
| 22       | Uttarakhand West Bengal | - Praganas                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | - Bardhaman, Hooghly, Howrah, Malda, Murshidabad, Nadia, Parganas, S- 24                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 23       |                         | Bankura, Birbhum, Dakshindinajpur, Malda, Purulia, Uttardinajpur, South 24                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | N-24 Parganas, Kochbihar                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 24       | Daman& Diu              | -                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | Diu                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |