Lok Sabha Question No. 750 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-11-21
Subject: Schemes for Drinking Water
Ministry: JAL SHAKTI
Asked by: Pushpendra Singh Chandel

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.750 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21.11.2019

## Schemes for Drinking Water

## †750. SHRI KUNWAR PUSHPENDRA SINGH CHANDEL:

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state:

(a) the details of schemes for drinking water in the country;

(b) the expenditure incurred on the said schemes during the last three years, State-wise including Bundelkhand;

(c)  the  measures  taken  by  the  Government  to  make  water  management  and  drinking water supply more effective; and

(d)  the  number  of  persons  for  which  drinking  water  is  not  available  in  the  country, State-wise including Bundelkhand?

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

(a)  National  Rural  Drinking  Water  Programme  (NRDWP)  is  a  Centrally  Sponsored scheme, under which financial and technical assistance is provided to States/ UTs for rural  water  supply.  This  has  now  been  restructured  and  subsumed  intoJal  Jeevan Mission  (JJM)  which  aims  atenabling  every  rural  household  to  have  a  Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC) for providing potable water at service level of 55 litre per capita per day (lpcd) by 2024.

(b) State-wise fund released under NRDWP including the States of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh covering Bundelkhand during the last three years is Annexed .

(c)  Government of  India  has launched  Jal  Shakti  Abhiyan  (JSA),  a  water  conservation campaign, which is being implemented in two phases in 256 water-stressed districts of the country. The Phase-I was implemented from 1st July, 2019 to 30th September, 2019 across the country and Phase-II is being implementedfrom 1st October, 2019 to 30th November, 2019in the Southern States which receive retreating monsoon. During the campaign, officers,  groundwater experts and scientists from the Government of India have  worked  with  State  and  District  officials  in  these  districts  to  promote  water conservation and water resource management by focusing on accelerated implementation  of  five  target  interventions,  viz.  water  conservation  &  rainwater harvesting, renovation of traditional and other water bodies/ tanks, reuse and recharge of bore wells, watershed development and intensive afforestation. With this campaign, huge  awareness  has  been  generated  and  various  stakeholders,  viz.  government departments, agencies, NGOs, officials, Panchayats, individuals, etc. have started taking steps for water conservation. For  effective  drinking  water  supply,  provision  has  been  made  under  JJM  for providing rural households with a service level of 55 lpcd against 40 lpcd norm under erstwhile NRDWP. (d) Under erstwhile National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), the coverage was  monitored  in  terms  of  Fully  Covered  (FC)  habitations  i.e.  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 on 15.11.2019, out of total 17.24 lakh  rural  habitations,  around  14  lakh  habitationswith  76.58%  rural  population  are fully  covered  with  provision  of  40  litre  or  more  per  capita  per  day  (lpcd)  and  2.67 lakhhabitations with19.67% rural population are partially covered, i.e. with provision of less than 40 lpcd whereas 55,721 habitations with 3.75% rural population are having sources with quality issues.

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## Annex referred in the reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 750 due for reply on 21/11/2019

State-wise fund released under NRDWP including the States of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh covering Bundelkhand during the last three years

Amount in Crore

| S. No.   | State/ UT                         | 2016-17   | 2017-18   | 2018-19   |
|----------|-----------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 1.       | Andaman &Nicobar Islands          | 0         | 0         | 0.31      |
| 2.       | Andhra Pradesh                    | 157.38    | 233.09    | 185.85    |
| 3.       | Arunachal Pradesh                 | 95.71     | 63.08     | 90.89     |
| 4.       | Assam                             | 203.09    | 474.8     | 300.76    |
| 5.       | Bihar                             | 470.96    | 355.6     | 234.84    |
| 6.       | Chhattisgarh                      | 65.66     | 49.84     | 48.19     |
| 7.       | Goa                               | 3.35      | 0         | 1.67      |
| 8.       | Gujarat                           | 265.16    | 290.86    | 222.27    |
| 9.       | Haryana                           | 114.2     | 88.82     | 76.76     |
| 10.      | Himachal Pradesh                  | 64.73     | 101.85    | 85.43     |
| 11.      | Jammu &Kashmir (Including Ladakh) | 219.94    | 325.33    | 249.34    |
| 12.      | Jharkhand                         | 157.89    | 209.09    | 85.12     |
| 13.      | Karnataka                         | 339.83    | 365.81    | 276.06    |
| 14.      | Kerala                            | 74.21     | 95.16     | 84.86     |
| 15.      | Madhya Pradesh                    | 212.48    | 135.51    | 243.62    |
| 16.      | Maharashtra                       | 412.32    | 282.47    | 239.06    |
| 17.      | Manipur                           | 18.87     | 66.25     | 37.73     |
| 18.      | Meghalaya                         | 50        | 85.91     | 49.15     |
| 19.      | Mizoram                           | 24.82     | 46.1      | 26.25     |
| 20.      | Nagaland                          | 36.2      | 17.88     | 17.36     |
| 21.      | Odisha                            | 100.14    | 83.59     | 128.82    |
| 22.      | Punjab                            | 53.56     | 173.29    | 119.41    |
| 23.      | Rajasthan                         | 681.21    | 714.24    | 655.41    |
| 24.      | Sikkim                            | 15.21     | 17.51     | 10.89     |
| 25.      | Tamil Nadu                        | 175.08    | 185.1     | 167.31    |
| 26.      | Telangana                         | 111.89    | 843.56    | 123.18    |
| 27.      | Tripura                           | 38.73     | 83.93     | 51.73     |
| 28.      | Uttar Pradesh                     | 639.54    | 472.52    | 670.72    |
| 29.      | Uttarakhand                       | 99.69     | 110.28    | 92.97     |
| 30.      | West Bengal                       | 423.68    | 996.68    | 890.28    |
|          | Total                             | 5,325.53  | 6,968.15  | 5,466.24  |