Lok Sabha Question No. 993 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-02-08
Subject: Criteria for ODF Village
Ministry: DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION
Asked by: MALLIKARJUN  KHARGE

## Government of India

## Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 993 TO BE ANSWERED ON 08-02-2018

## Criteria for ODF Village

## 993. SHRI MALLIKARJUN KHARGE:

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

- (a) the criteria or process throughwhich the Government declares a village asOpen Defecation Free (ODF);
- (b) the number of ODF villages inIndia, State-wise; and
- (c) the incentives provided by theUnion Government to villages for ODFstatus?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF DRINKING WATER & SANITATION

(SHRI RAMESH CHANDAPPA JIGAJINAGI)

- (a) A comprehensive community led decision making process is taken up for declaration of ODF villages. In the first step,  villages themselves declare Open Defecation Free (ODF) in the General meeting (Aam Sabha). Within 3 months of ODF declaration, State/UT conduct ODF  verification  using  different  processes  such  as  by  using  inter-district  verification committees or third party verification committees. As Sanitation is a state subject, the States are encouraged to adopt a verification process best suited to the local conditions. In the third step, ODF declared and verified Villages are then  enteredby the States on Online Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) maintained by Ministry, which is in public domain. In the Fourth step, ODF sustainability verification, which primarily focuses on toilet usage is also conducted after a period of 270 days.
- (b) State/UT-wise, details of Open Defecation Free (ODF) declared villages are at Annexure1.
- (c) Instructions have been written to concerned Central Ministries/Departments to prioritize their programmes in ODF  villages. ODF declared villages are also prioritised in providing Piped Water Supply Schemes(PWSS).

## Statement referred in part (b)of the reply to Lok Sabha Un-starred Question No. 993 due for reply on 08-02-2018

State/UT-wise, ODF declared  villages as on 06.02.2018

| S.N.   | State/UT          |   ODF Declared villages |
|--------|-------------------|-------------------------|
| 1      | A &NIslands       |                       3 |
| 2      | Andhra Pradesh    |                    7962 |
| 3      | Arunachal Pradesh |                    5389 |
| 4      | Assam             |                    7507 |
| 5      | Bihar             |                    3856 |
| 6      | Chandigarh        |                      13 |
| 7      | Chhattisgarh      |                   18769 |
| 8      | D &NHaveli        |                      12 |
| 9      | Daman &Diu        |                      26 |
| 10     | Goa               |                       0 |
| 11     | Gujarat           |                   18261 |
| 12     | Haryana           |                    6908 |
| 13     | Himachal Pradesh  |                   15925 |
| 14     | Jammu &Kashmir    |                     515 |
| 15     | Jharkhand         |                   11061 |
| 16     | Karnataka         |                   18270 |
| 17     | Kerala            |                    2027 |
| 18     | Madhya Pradesh    |                   20660 |
| 19     | Maharashtra       |                   35478 |
| 20     | Manipur           |                     701 |
| 21     | Meghalaya         |                    6028 |
| 22     | Mizoram           |                     588 |
| 23     | Nagaland          |                     676 |
| 24     | Odisha            |                    7722 |
| 25     | Puducherry        |                      24 |
| 26     | Punjab            |                   10744 |
| 27     | Rajasthan         |                   39381 |
| 28     | Sikkim            |                     441 |
| 29     | Tamil Nadu        |                    7820 |
| 30     | Telangana         |                    4080 |
| 31     | Tripura           |                      17 |
| 32     | Uttar Pradesh     |                   18383 |
| 33     | Uttarakhand       |                   15473 |
| 34     | West Bengal       |                   32237 |
|        |                   |                  316957 |