Lok Sabha Question No. 4308 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-03-19
Subject: Drinking Water Shortage
Ministry: JAL SHAKTI
Asked by: Sudarshan Bhagat, Kotagiri Sridhar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI DEPARTMENT OF DRINKING WATER & SANITATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.4308 TO BE ANSWERED ON 19.03.2020

## Drinking Water Shortage

## †4308. SHRI SUDARSHAN BHAGAT:

## SHRI SRIDHAR KOTAGIRI:

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state:

- (a) whether there is shortage of pure drinking water in most of the villages in the country at present;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State-wise especially in Andhra Pradesh; and
- (c)  if  not,  the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  in  this  regard  during  the  last  three  years, especially in rural and remote areas?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE FOR JAL SHAKTI (SHRI RATTAN LAL KATARIA)

(a)  &  (b)    Under  erstwhile  National  Rural  Drinking  Water  Programme  (NRDWP),  now subsumed  under  the  Jal  Jeevan  Mission  (JJM),  the  coverage  was  monitored  in  terms  of habitations having provision of minimum 40 litre per capita per day (lpcd) of potable drinking water  with  sources  at  a  reasonable  distance.  As  reported  by  States/  UTs,  as  on15.03.2020, 81.76%  rural  habitations  having  77.54%  population  have  provision  of  minimum  40  litre  per capita  per  day  (lpcd)  of  potable  drinking  water  and  15.32%  rural  habitations  having  19.23% population have service level of less than 40 lpcd potable water, whereas 2.91% rural habitations having  3.24%  population  with  water  sources  having  quality  issues.  State/  UT-wise  details  of coverage of rural habitations including those of Andhra Pradesh are annexed .

(c)Government of India (GoI) supplements the effort of States/ UTs for providing potable water in rural areas by providing financial and technical assistance.A number of steps have been taken by GoI which inter-alia includes:

- i.) In  last  three  years  for  this  purpose,  an  amount  of  Rs.  18,309.55Crore  has  been  made available to States;
- ii.) Since  2014,  to  improve  piped  water  supply  in  low  income  States  viz.  Assam,  Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh, with the assistance of World Bank, this Department has been implementing  Rural  Water  Supply  and  Sanitation  Project-Low  Income  States  (RWSSPLIS).  An  amount of  Rs.  1,375.35  Crore  has  been  released  to  these  States  so  far  for  this project;
- iii.) In 2016,  for installation of community water purification plants & commissioning of pipe water supply  schemes  in  Arsenic/  Fluoride  affected  States,  an  amount of  Rs.1,000  Crore has been released;
- iv.) In  2017,  to  give  focussed  attention  to  provide  safe  drinking  water  to  27,544  identified Arsenic  and  Fluoride  affected  rural  habitations,  National  Water  Quality  Sub-Mission (NWQSM) was launched and so far an amount of Rs. 3,940.34 Crore has been released;
- v.) For  Japanese  Encephalitis/Acute  Encephalitis  Syndrome  (JE/  AES)  affected  60  priority districts of the States of Assam, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal as part of the NRDWP (now JJM) and an amount of Rs. 369 Crore has been released in the last three years;
- vi.) In  2018,  for  implementation  in  all  the  Aspirational  districts  in  28  States,  Swajal,  a community-driven,  single  village,  solar  powered,  mini-piped  water  supply  scheme  was launched;
- vii.) During the current year 2019-20, Jal Shakti Abhiyan (JSA), a time-bound, mission-mode water conservation campaign was also launched in 256 water stressed districts across the country  with  aim  to  promote  water conservation  and  water  resource  management  by focusing on accelerated implementation of five target interventions, viz., water conservation  &  rain  water harvesting,  renovation  of  traditional  and  other  water  bodies/ tanks, reuse and recharge of bore wells, watershed development and intensive afforestation;
- viii.) To meet the domestic needs of every rural household in future, Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) has  been  launchedin  August,  2019  which  aims  at  providing  potable  water  through Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC) at service  level of 55  litre per capita per day  (lpcd)  by  2024  with  an  outlay  of  Rs.3.60  lakh  Crore,  in  partnerships  with  States. During current year, an amount of Rs. 9,542.89 Crore has been released.

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## Annex referred in the reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 4308 due for reply on 19.03.2020

## State/ UT-wise details of coverage of rural habitations

As on 15.03.2020

| S.No.   | State                        | Total no.of rural habitations   | No. of rural habitations provided with 40 lpcd or more of potable water   | No. of rural habitations provided with less than 40 lpcd of potable water   | No. of rural habitations having water sources with quality issues   |
|---------|------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1.      | Andaman& Nicobar Islands     | 400                             | 324                                                                       | 76                                                                          | 0                                                                   |
| 2.      | Andhra Pradesh               | 48,663                          | 34,703                                                                    | 13,685                                                                      | 275                                                                 |
| 3.      | Arunachal Pradesh            | 7,525                           | 3,353                                                                     | 4,148                                                                       | 24                                                                  |
| 4.      | Assam                        | 88,076                          | 55,868                                                                    | 24,159                                                                      | 8,049                                                               |
| 5.      | Bihar                        | 1,10,218                        | 71,025                                                                    | 36,008                                                                      | 3,185                                                               |
| 6.      | Chhattisgarh                 | 74,753                          | 72,896                                                                    | 1,370                                                                       | 487                                                                 |
| 7.      | Goa                          | 347                             | 345                                                                       | 2                                                                           | 0                                                                   |
| 8.      | Gujarat                      | 35,996                          | 35,996                                                                    | 0                                                                           | 0                                                                   |
| 9.      | Haryana                      | 7,655                           | 7,329                                                                     | 264                                                                         | 62                                                                  |
| 10.     | Himachal Pradesh             | 54,469                          | 42,926                                                                    | 11,543                                                                      | 0                                                                   |
| 11.     | Jammu & Kashmir              | 14,625                          | 8,781                                                                     | 5,833                                                                       | 11                                                                  |
| 12.     | (including Ladakh) Jharkhand | 1,20,591                        | 1,19,741                                                                  | 426                                                                         | 424                                                                 |
| 13.     | Karnataka                    | 59,774                          | 34,641                                                                    | 24,692                                                                      | 441                                                                 |
| 14.     | Kerala                       | 21,520                          | 6,169                                                                     | 15,027                                                                      | 324                                                                 |
| 15.     | Ladakh                       | 1,153                           | 731                                                                       | 422                                                                         | 0                                                                   |
| 16.     | Madhya Pradesh               | 1,28,231                        | 1,28,087                                                                  | 1                                                                           | 143                                                                 |
| 17.     | Maharashtra                  | 99,641                          | 85,011                                                                    | 14,465                                                                      | 165                                                                 |
| 18.     | Manipur                      | 2,976                           | 2,053                                                                     | 923                                                                         | 0                                                                   |
| 19.     | Meghalaya                    | 10,470                          | 4,131                                                                     | 6,332                                                                       | 7                                                                   |
| 20.     | Mizoram                      | 720                             | 490                                                                       | 230                                                                         | 0                                                                   |
| 21.     | Nagaland                     | 1,450                           | 742                                                                       | 708                                                                         | 0                                                                   |
| 22.     | Odisha                       | 1,57,013                        | 1,54,509                                                                  | 126                                                                         | 2,378                                                               |
| 23.     | Puducherry                   | 266                             | 153                                                                       | 113                                                                         | 0                                                                   |
| 24.     | Punjab                       | 15,190                          | 10,538                                                                    | 1,572                                                                       | 3,080                                                               |
| 25.     | Rajasthan                    | 1,21,526                        | 64,095                                                                    | 41,214                                                                      | 16,217                                                              |
| 26.     | Sikkim                       | 2,337                           | 862                                                                       | 1,475                                                                       | 0                                                                   |
| 27.     | Tamil Nadu                   | 1,00,014                        | 96,885                                                                    | 3,129                                                                       | 0                                                                   |
| 28.     | Telangana                    | 24,597                          | 16,748                                                                    | 7,588                                                                       | 261                                                                 |
| 29.     | Tripura                      | 8,723                           | 5,066                                                                     | 1,311                                                                       | 2,346                                                               |
| 30.     | Uttar Pradesh                | 2,60,018                        | 2,56,915                                                                  | 1,949                                                                       | 1,154                                                               |
| 31.     | Uttarakhand                  | 39,311                          | 23,346                                                                    | 15,956                                                                      | 9                                                                   |
| 32.     | West Bengal                  | 1,07,328                        | 66,455                                                                    | 29,689                                                                      | 11,184                                                              |
| Total   | Total                        | 17,25,576                       | 14,10,914                                                                 | 2,64,436                                                                    | 50,226                                                              |
|         |                              |                                 | Percentage 81.76                                                          | 15.32                                                                       | 2.92                                                                |

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Source: IMIS, DDWS )