Lok Sabha Question No. 1125 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-02-08
Subject: Swachh Survekshan
Ministry: URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT, DHANANJAY BHIMRAO MAHADIK, VIJAY KUMAR S.R., BHARATENDRA SINGH, SUPRIYA SADANAND SULE, BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO, ASHOK SHANKARRAO CHAVAN, RAJEEV SHANKARRAO SATAV, VIJAYSINH MOHITE PATIL, SUDHEER GUPTA, KUNWAR HARIBANSH SINGH, V. PANNEER SELVAM, SUKHBIR SINGH JAUNPURIA, SUNIL BALIRAM GAIKWAD, JAYAKUMAR JAYAVARDHAN, C. MAHENDRAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1125

TO BE ANSWERED ON FEBRUARY 8, 2017

## SWACHH SURVEKSHAN

No. 1125 DR. HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT:

SHRI DHANANJAY MAHADIK:

SHRI S.R. VIJAYAKUMAR:

KUNWAR BHARATENDRA:

SHRIMATI SUPRIYA SULE:

SHRI BIDYUT BARAN MAHATO:

SHRI ASHOK SHANKARRAO CHAVAN:

SHRI SATAV RAJEEV:

SHRI MOHITE PATIL VIJAYSINH SHANKARRAO:

SHRI SUDHEER GUPTA:

KUNWAR HARIBANSH SINGH:

SHRI V. PANNEERSELVAM:

SHRI SUKHBIR SINGH JAUNAPURIA:

DR. SUNIL BALIRAM GAIKWAD:

DR. J. JAYAVARDHAN:

SHRI C. MAHENDRAN:

Will  the  Minister  of  URBAN  DEVELOPMENT  be  pleased  to state:

- (a) whether the Government has commissioned Swachh Survekshan 2017 to study the progress of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) and rating of the cities and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether any agency has been appointed to conduct the survey and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) the  number  of  cities  covered/likely  to  be  covered  under  the survey and methodology of data collection along with the time by
- which the result of the Survekshan is likely to be announced;

- (d) whether the Government is likely to assess the impact of the mission on the basis of data collected and if so, the details thereof; and
- (e) the other steps taken/being taken to make the SBM successful and  to  create  awareness  amongst  all  sections  of  the  society  for cleaner cities?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF URBAN

## DEVELOPMENT

## (RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

- (a): Yes, Madam. The Swachh Survekshan 2017 has been commissioned  by  Ministry  of  Urban  Development  (MOUD)  under Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) to rank cities on various cleanliness parameters  (sanitation  and  Solid  Waste  Management)  of  Swachh Bharat  Mission.  The  Swachh  Survekshan,  2017  aims  to  evaluate cities and towns on the basis of their overall cleanliness, including sanitation  and  solid  waste  management  and  is  being  conducted among 435 AMRUT towns and cities. The objective of the survey is to encourage large scale citizen participation and create awareness amongst  all  sections  of  society  about  the  importance  of  working together towards making towns and cities a better place to live in. Additionally,  the  survey  also  intends  to  foster  a  spirit  of  healthy competition  among  towns  and  cities  to  improve  their  service delivery to citizens, towards creating cleaner cities.
- (b): Yes, Madam. Quality Council of India (QCI), an autonomous organization under the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce has been engaged to conduct the  Survey.  QCI,  through  its  partner  agencies,  provides  field  level assessors to collect the required data from the field, and feed them to  a  central  Quality  control  team  at  QCI,  which  authenticates  and processes the data, prior to submitting their assessments to MoUD.
- (c): The  Survey  is  being  conducted  in  435  cities/towns.  The  six broad  areas  for  which  detailed  process  and  outcome  indicators
- have been designed are given below:

|   AREA OF EVALUATION | AREA OF EVALUATION                                                                       | WEIGHTAGE   |
|----------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------|
|                    1 | Strategy for Open Defecation Free town (ODF) and Integrated Solid Waste Management (SWM) | 5%          |
|                    2 | Information, Education and Behavior Change Communication (IEBC) activity                 | 5%          |
|                    3 | Door to door Collection, Sweeping, Collection & Transportation                           | 40%         |
|                    4 | Processing and Disposal                                                                  | 20%         |
|                    5 | Public & Community Toilet Provision                                                      | 15%         |
|                    6 | Individual Toilet                                                                        | 15%         |

The unique feature of the Swachh Survekshan is its three-pronged data  collection  technique:  (1)  from  data  furnished  by  Urban  Local Bodies (ULBs) themselves, (2) from independent observations, and (3) from citizens' feedback.

The  data to be collected for ranking of the cities shall be segregated  into  3  main  areas  (1)  Collection  of  data  from  and interactions with Municipal Body - weightage 45% (2) Collection of data from Direct Observation - weightage 25% (3) Collection of data from Citizen Feedback - weightage 30%

The  weightage  to  be  given  to  citizen  feedback  is  proposed  to  be higher  while  ranking  ULBs  on  various  indicators  of  cleanliness. Moreover, to widen the reach of citizen engagement in the survey process, feedback from citizens will be collected through multiple channels,  viz.    digital  media  such  as  IVRS,  social  media,  focused group discussions, etc.

(d): The  Swachh  Survekshan  is  only  one  of  the  ways  for  the government to gauge the progress made by cities amongst various other components of Swachh Bharat Mission, viz. sanitation (no. of ODF cites/ wards, no. of individual household toilets, community and public  toilets  constructed),  solid  waste  management  (status  of sweeping,  collection  and  transportation  of  solid  waste  in  cites  / towns,  status  of  availability  of  solid  waste  processing  facilities  waste to compost, waste to energy, recycling of construction and demolition waste), steps taken by cities to bring about awareness and behaviour change among citizens towards sanitation, and steps taken by cities to build internal capacities.

(e) A key initiative launched by the GoI, which invites participation from every citizen and every stakeholder has been the introduction of 'thematic drives (from 15th October 2015), every fortnight, where a particular sector or 'theme' is taken up for focusing on 'swachhata'. Till date, 27 such thematic drives or 'pakhwadas' have been  held,  each  of  them  seeing  large  scale  participation  from citizens across sectors.

In  order  to  bring  about  attitudinal  and  mind-set  changes towards safe sanitary habits, MOUD, as part of SBM-Urban, has been organizing  massive  triggering  activities  across  the  country  every quarter,  alongwith  municipalities,  local  NGOs,  and  swachhagrahis, in identified Open Defecation vulnerable spots, to sensitize communities towards toilet construction and usage. Till date, 20000 swachhagrahis  have  been  selected  across  cities,  to  work  with communities.

Parallely, an intensive multi-media campaign titled 'Asli Tarakki'  has  been  launched  which  is  currently  running  across various  media  -  TV,  radio,  print  and  outdoors,  in  various  regional languages, to reinforce the message  of importance of toilet construction and usage.

MOUD  has  also  partnered  with  publishing  houses  such  as Amar Chitra Katha, to spread the message of 'swachhata' through comic book characters.

MOUD has brought out a Swachh Bharat Idea book to provide a ready  reckoner  of  ideas  for  common  citizens  to  contribute  to Swachh Bharat Mission.

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