Lok Sabha Question No. 4029 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-08-13
Subject: Nirmal Gram Puraskar
Ministry: DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION
Asked by: NISHIKANT  DUBEY

**Government of India**

**Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation**

LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. **4029**

TO BE ANSWERED ON **13-8-2015**

**Nirmal Gram Puraskar**

**4029. SHRI NISHIKANT DUBEY:**

Will the Minister of **DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION** be pleased to state the number of villages declared as Nirmal Gram in the country during each of the last three years and the current year, State/UT-wise including Jharkhand?

ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF DRINKING WATER & SANITATION

(SHRI RAM KRIPAL YADAV)

State/UT-wise, the number of Gram Panchayats awarded Nirmal Gram Puraskar(NGP) in the country including Jharkhand during each of the last three years and the current year is at Annexure. NGPs could not be awarded in 2012-13 since the guidelines for the scheme were revised. Similarly, in 2014, Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) was launched and therefore NGP could not be awarded.

Annexure

Statement referred the reply to Lok Sabha Un-starred Question No.4029 due for reply on 13-08-2015

| **State/UT-wise no. of Gram Panchayats awarded NGP during 2013-14**   |                      |                                |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------------|
| **S.No.**                                                             | **Name of State/UT** | **NGP awarded during 2013-14** |
| 1                                                                     | Andhra Pradesh       | 27                             |
| 2                                                                     | Arunachal Pr.        | 2                              |
| 3                                                                     | Assam                | 0                              |
| 4                                                                     | Bihar                | 1                              |
| 5                                                                     | Chhattisgarh         | 3                              |
| 6                                                                     | Dadra & Haveli       | 0                              |
| 7                                                                     | Goa                  | 0                              |
| 8                                                                     | Gujarat              | 2                              |
| 9                                                                     | Haryana              | 15                             |
| 10                                                                    | Himachal Pradesh     | 21                             |
| 11                                                                    | Jammu & Kashmir      | 0                              |
| 12                                                                    | Jharkhand            | 0                              |
| 13                                                                    | Karnataka            | 1                              |
| 14                                                                    | Kerala               | 0                              |
| 15                                                                    | Madhya Pradesh       | 34                             |
| 16                                                                    | Maharashtra          | 355                            |
| 17                                                                    | Manipur              | 0                              |
| 18                                                                    | Meghalaya            | 43                             |
| 19                                                                    | Mizoram              | 0                              |
| 20                                                                    | Nagaland             | 0                              |
| 21                                                                    | Odisha               | 3                              |
| 22                                                                    | Pondicherry          | 0                              |
| 23                                                                    | Punjab               | 0                              |
| 24                                                                    | Rajasthan            | 5                              |
| 25                                                                    | Sikkim               | 0                              |
| 26                                                                    | Tamil Nadu           | 39                             |
| 27                                                                    | Telangana            | 36                             |
| 28                                                                    | Tripura              | 0                              |
| 29                                                                    | Uttar Pradesh        | 0                              |
| 30                                                                    | Uttara Khand         | 0                              |
| 31                                                                    | West Bengal          | 0                              |
| **Total**                                                             |                      | **587**                        |