Lok Sabha Question No. 730 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-02-06
Subject: National Water Quality Sub-Mission
Ministry: JAL SHAKTI
Asked by: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 730 TO BE ANSWERED ON 06.02.2020

## National Water Quality Sub-Mission

## 730. COL. RAJYAVARDHAN RATHORE:

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state:

- (a)  the  status  of  National  Water  Quality  Sub-Mission  (NWQSM)  launched to provide potable drinking water in fluoride affected habitats;
- (b)  whether  the  Government  is  aware  of  the  low  number  of  fluoride  affected  regions  it  has covered under the mission, if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;
- (c) the measures being taken to increase coverage under the said sub-mission; and
- (d) the number of fluoride affected habitations with Community Water Purification Plants?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI (SHRI RATTAN LAL KATARIA)

- (a) to (c) In March 2017, National Water Quality Sub-Mission (NWQSM) was launched as a part of National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), which has now been subsumed under Jal Jeevan Mission, to provide safe drinking water to identified 27,544 Arsenic/ Fluoride affected rural  habitations  of  the  country.  State  wise  physical  progress  of  fluoride  affected  habitations under NWQSM is at Annexure-I.
- (d)  Out  13,725  fluoride  affected  habitations  identified  under  NWQSM,  1,507  habitations  have been covered through Community Water Purification Plants.

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Annexure: referred in the reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 730 due for reply on 06.02.2020

## State wise physical progress of fluoride affected habitations under NWQSM

| S. No.   | State Name     | Nos. of identified Habs   | No. of habs Covered   | No. of habs covered through State schemes/ quality improved   | No. of habs being covered   | No. of habs under planning stage   |
|----------|----------------|---------------------------|-----------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------|------------------------------------|
| 1.       | Andhra Pradesh | 421                       | 249                   | 71                                                            | 25                          | 76                                 |
| 2.       | Assam          | 155                       | 119                   | 3                                                             | 33                          | -                                  |
| 3.       | Bihar          | 1,043                     | 304                   | 435                                                           | 300                         | 4                                  |
| 4.       | Chhattisgarh   | 75                        | 18                    | 36                                                            | 20                          | 1                                  |
| 5.       | Haryana        | 200                       | 33                    | 84                                                            | 78                          | 5                                  |
| 6.       | Jharkhand      | 998                       | 214                   | 710                                                           | 74                          | -                                  |
| 7.       | Karnataka      | 1,038                     | 863                   | 59                                                            | 39                          | 77                                 |
| 8.       | Kerala         | 73                        | 38                    | 6                                                             | 13                          | 16                                 |
| 9.       | Madhya Pradesh | 136                       | 128                   | 8                                                             | -                           | -                                  |
| 10.      | Maharashtra    | 100                       | 47                    | 19                                                            | 27                          | 7                                  |
| 11.      | Odisha         | 65                        | 25                    | 3                                                             | 2                           | 35                                 |
| 12.      | Punjab         | 285                       | 71                    | 20                                                            | 166                         | 28                                 |
| 13.      | Rajasthan      | 6,849                     | 3,550                 | 950                                                           | 1,826                       | 523                                |
| 14.      | Telangana      | 1,041                     | 1,040                 | 1                                                             | -                           | -                                  |
| 15.      | Uttar Pradesh  | 200                       | 96                    | 19                                                            | 73                          | 12                                 |
| 16.      | West Bengal    | 1,046                     | 161                   | 55                                                            | 627                         | 203                                |
| Total    | Total          | 13,725                    | 6,956                 | 2,479                                                         | 3,303                       | 987                                |