Lok Sabha Question No. 438 (STARRED), answered on 2021-03-25
Subject: Drinking Water and Sanitation Schemes
Ministry: JAL SHAKTI
Asked by: Ramesh Bidhuri

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI

## DEPARTMENT OF DRINKING WATER & SANITATION

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 438

TO BE ANSWERED ON 25.03.2021

## DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION SCHEMES

*438. SHRI RAMESH BIDHURI:

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state:

(a)   the  status  of  implementation  of  drinking  water  and  sanitation  schemes  in  the  country including the NCT of Delhi;

- (b)   whether it is a fact that the drinking water supplied in Delhi is unsafe; and

(c)   if so, the details of the action taken or proposed to be taken by the Government in this regard?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  FOR JAL SHAKTI

(SHRI  GAJENDRA SINGH SHEKHAWAT)

(a) to (c)  A Statement of reply is laid on the Table of the House.

## Statement referred to in the reply to Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 438 due for reply on 25.03.2021

(a) Government of India, in partnership with States/ UTs, is implementing Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) - Har Ghar Jal to enable every rural household in the country to have potable water of prescribed  quality  in  adequate  quantity,  on  regular  and  long-term  basis  through  tap  water connection, by 2024.

At the time of announcement of Jal Jeevan Mission on 15th August, 2019, out of 18.93 Crore rural households, 3.23 Crore households (17%) were reported to have tap water supply. Since then, 3.92 Crore rural households have been provided tap water connections. Thus, as on date, out  of  19.19  Crore  rural  households  across  the  country,  7.15  Crore  (37%)  have  tap  water supply.

States of Goa & Telangana and UT of Andaman & Nicobar Islands have become 'Har Ghar Jal Rajya' and every rural households in 55 districts across the country are having tap water supply.

UT of Delhi has informed that out of 112 villages, 111 villages have piped water supply and the remaining one village is planned to be covered by June, 2021.

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), being the nodal Ministry for Water and Sanitation  in  Urban  Areas  has  informed  that  Atal  Mission  for  Rejuvenation  and  Urban Transformation (AMRUT), a Centrally Sponsored Scheme is being implemented in selected 500 cities across the country to primarily focus on providing safe and assured drinking water universally  and  to  ensure  substantial  improvement  in  the  sewerage  coverage  and  septage management.

Against the target to provide 139 lakh water tap connections to achieve universal coverage of drinking water in the 500 AMRUT cities, so far 102 lakh new water tap connections (73%) have been provided in convergence with other schemes.

In NCT of Delhi, against the target to provide 10.61 lakh water tap connections, so far 6.78 lakh new water tap connections have been provided under AMRUT and in convergence with other schemes. Further, Delhi Jal Board has also informed that piped water supply has already been provided in 1,573 out of total 1,799 unauthorised colonies and the work is in progress for laying of water network in balance technically feasible colonies by 2022.

Government had launched Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) to make the rural areas of the country  Open  Defecation  Free  (ODF)  by  providing  access  to  toilets  to  all  the  rural households.  More  than  10  Crore  individual  household  latrines  were  constructed  under  the programme. As a result, all the villages in the country declared themselves ODF as on 2nd October, 2019.  Having achieved the outcomes of ODF, Government is implementing PhaseII of SBM (G) with focus on sustainability of ODF status and to cover all villages with Solid and Liquid Waste Management. To make all statutory towns (including NCT of Delhi) ODF, SBM (Urban) was started on 2 nd October, 2014 and against the target of 4,372 cities, 4,360 cities have already become ODF including all the 5 Urban Local Bodies of NCT of Delhi.

Further,  as  informed  by  MoHUA,  against  the  target  to  provide  145  lakh  new  sewer connections  in  the  500  AMRUT  cities,  68  lakh  sewer  connections  have  been  provided  in convergence with other schemes. Similarly, against the target to provide 2.52 lakh new sewer connections in NCT  of  Delhi,  1.66 lakh sewer  connections have been provided in convergence with other schemes. As informed by UT of Delhi, at present 79% of population is  already  connected  to  sewerage  network  and  action  plan  along  with  timelines  has  been prepared for covering unsewered areas.

(b) & (c) As informed by Delhi Jal Board, provisioning of safe and wholesome drinking water is the mandate of the board and steps are being undertaken from time to time for achieving the same. The status of total number of water samples collected and tested in the current financial year  depicts  that  %  age  of  satisfactory  samples,  are  well  above  the  prescribed  limit  of guidelines  of  World  Health  Organization.  The  details  are annexed .  Further,  to  ensure  the drinking  water  quality  parameters  as  per  BIS  standard,  09  Quality  Control  laboratories  are working round the clock at water treatment plants and 08 zonal laboratories are functional in different  parts  of  the  UT  for  testing  500  water  samples  from  distribution  network  upto consumer  end.  Also,  water  quality  monitoring  activities  have  further  been  strengthened recently, which inter alia include ward-wise surveillance, collection of samples and analysis at site as well as zonal labs.

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## Annex-I referred in the statement of reply to Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 438 due for reply on 25.03.2021

## Details of total number of water samples collected & tested in 2020-21

(till 15.03.2021)

|   S. No. | Month        | Total No. of samples   | Satisfactory   |   Unsatisfactory | *% of Unsatisfactory   |
|----------|--------------|------------------------|----------------|------------------|------------------------|
|        1 | Apr, 2020    | 12,093                 | 12,042         |               51 | 0.42%                  |
|        2 | May, 2020    | 13,528                 | 13,429         |               99 | 0.73%                  |
|        3 | Jun, 2020    | 15,250                 | 15,152         |               98 | 0.64%                  |
|        4 | Jul, 2020    | 17,473                 | 17,413         |               60 | 0.34%                  |
|        5 | Aug, 2020    | 19,578                 | 19,494         |               84 | 0.43%                  |
|        6 | Sep, 2020    | 19,805                 | 19,737         |               68 | 0.34%                  |
|        7 | Oct, 2020    | 19,489                 | 19,441         |               48 | 0.25%                  |
|        8 | Nov, 2020    | 18,689                 | 18,662         |               27 | 0.14%                  |
|        9 | Dec, 2020    | 14,545                 | 14,525         |               20 | 0.14%                  |
|       10 | Jan, 2021    | 19,970                 | 19,936         |               34 | 0.17%                  |
|       11 | Feb, 2021    | 17,934                 | 17,884         |               50 | 0.28%                  |
|       12 | 15, Mar 2021 | 9,145                  | 9,122          |               23 | 0.25%                  |