Lok Sabha Question No. 2041 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-04
Subject: Availability of Safe Drinking Water
Ministry: JAL SHAKTI
Asked by: Chandra Prakash Joshi

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2041 TO BE ANSWERED ON 04.07.2019

## Availability of Safe Drinking Water

## †2041. SHRI CHANDRA PRAKASH JOSHI:

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the Government plan to provide safe drinking water throughout the year in the country at present;
- (b) the  number  of  villages  where  safe  drinking  water  is  not  available  for  365 days even today;
- (c)   whether  the  Government  has  made  any  scheme  to  provide  safe  drinking water in every village of the country for 365 days; and
- (d) if  so,  the  number  of  villages  to  which  drinking  water  has  been  provided under this scheme during the last three years?

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

(a to (d)Water supply is a state subject. Under National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS) under Ministry of Jal Shakti provides financial & technical assistance to State Governments for rural drinking water supply. State Governments are vested with the power to plan, design, approve and implement rural drinking water supply schemes for improving the coverage of drinking water  throughout  the  year  in  rural  areas.  DDWS  maintains  information  in  terms  of habitations and not in terms of villages. Under NRDWP, coverage of drinking water is maintained in terms of Fully Covered habitations [i.e. getting more than 40 litre per capita per day (lpcd) safe drinking water], Partially Covered habitations (i.e. getting less than 40 lpcd  safe  drinking  water)  and  Quality  Affected  habitations  (i.e.  getting  drinking  water from  unsafe  sources).  As  per  the  information  furnished  by  the  States  on  Integrated Management Information System (IMIS), 58037 rural habitations do not have access to safe  drinking  water.Under  NRDWP,  the  Ministry  supplements  the  effort  of  State Government for improving the coverage of safe drinking water in every rural habitations of the country.

The number of habitations  which  have been  provided  safe  drinking  water  under NRDWP during last three years is at Annexure .

Annexure Annexure referred to in reply to part (d) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Q. No- 2041 due for

answer on 04.07.2019

| Details of number of habitations covered under NRDWP during last three years   | Details of number of habitations covered under NRDWP during last three years   | Details of number of habitations covered under NRDWP during last three years   | Details of number of habitations covered under NRDWP during last three years   | Details of number of habitations covered under NRDWP during last three years   |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Sr. No.                                                                        | State                                                                          | 2016-2017                                                                      | 2017-18                                                                        | 2018-19                                                                        |
| 1                                                                              | Andaman &Nicobar                                                               | 0                                                                              | 0                                                                              | 0                                                                              |
| 2                                                                              | Andhra Pradesh                                                                 | 1373                                                                           | 1071                                                                           | 3166                                                                           |
| 3                                                                              | Arunachal Pradesh                                                              | 126                                                                            | 114                                                                            | 165                                                                            |
| 4                                                                              | Assam                                                                          | 382                                                                            | 245                                                                            | 1267                                                                           |
| 5                                                                              | Bihar                                                                          | 1289                                                                           | 266                                                                            | 1082                                                                           |
| 6                                                                              | Chhattisgarh                                                                   | 997                                                                            | 971                                                                            | 878                                                                            |
| 7                                                                              | Goa                                                                            | 0                                                                              | 0                                                                              | 0                                                                              |
| 8                                                                              | Gujarat                                                                        | 1605                                                                           | 1781                                                                           | 145                                                                            |
| 9                                                                              | Haryana                                                                        | 290                                                                            | 278                                                                            | 405                                                                            |
| 10                                                                             | Himachal Pradesh                                                               | 938                                                                            | 873                                                                            | 651                                                                            |
| 11                                                                             | Jammu &Kashmir                                                                 | 260                                                                            | 322                                                                            | 338                                                                            |
| 12                                                                             | Jharkhand                                                                      | 3074                                                                           | 4007                                                                           | 1071                                                                           |
| 13                                                                             | Karnataka                                                                      | 17434                                                                          | 12448                                                                          | 19429                                                                          |
| 14                                                                             | Kerala                                                                         | 291                                                                            | 192                                                                            | 203                                                                            |
| 15                                                                             | Madhya Pradesh                                                                 | 7420                                                                           | 9849                                                                           | 8209                                                                           |
| 16                                                                             | Maharashtra                                                                    | 1270                                                                           | 638                                                                            | 635                                                                            |
| 17                                                                             | Manipur                                                                        | 103                                                                            | 77                                                                             | 82                                                                             |
| 18                                                                             | Meghalaya                                                                      | 82                                                                             | 71                                                                             | 216                                                                            |
| 19                                                                             | Mizoram                                                                        | 35                                                                             | 20                                                                             | 43                                                                             |
| 20                                                                             | Nagaland                                                                       | 167                                                                            | 106                                                                            | 54                                                                             |
| 21                                                                             | Odisha                                                                         | 8196                                                                           | 4007                                                                           | 11923                                                                          |
| 22                                                                             | Puducherry                                                                     | 0                                                                              | 0                                                                              | 0                                                                              |
| 23                                                                             | Punjab                                                                         | 647                                                                            | 1046                                                                           | 366                                                                            |
| 24                                                                             | Rajasthan                                                                      | 2908                                                                           | 3922                                                                           | 5199                                                                           |
| 25                                                                             | Sikkim                                                                         | 14                                                                             | 31                                                                             | 199                                                                            |
| 26                                                                             | Tamil Nadu                                                                     | 2910                                                                           | 2291                                                                           | 1580                                                                           |
| 27                                                                             | Telangana                                                                      | 1121                                                                           | 1475                                                                           | 1272                                                                           |
| 28                                                                             | Tripura                                                                        | 571                                                                            | 142                                                                            | 191                                                                            |
| 29                                                                             | Uttar Pradesh                                                                  | 1838                                                                           | 403                                                                            | 2085                                                                           |
| 30                                                                             | Uttarakhand                                                                    | 484                                                                            | 565                                                                            | 936                                                                            |
| 31                                                                             | West Bengal                                                                    | 5217                                                                           | 6200                                                                           | 6014                                                                           |
| Total                                                                          | Total                                                                          | 61042                                                                          | 53411                                                                          | 67804                                                                          |

Source: As per format C-14 of IMIS, DDWS