Lok Sabha Question No. 1960 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-10
Subject: Drinking Water and Sanitation Facilities
Ministry: DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION
Asked by: KAUSHALENDRA KUMAR, RAJU ALIAS DEVAPPA ANNA SHETTI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF DRINKING WATER & SANITATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1960 TO BE ANSWERED ON 10.12.2015

## Drinking Water and Sanitation Facilities

## †1960.  SHRI   KAUSHALENDRA   KUMAR: SHRI  RAJU SHETTY:

Will  the  Minister  of  DRINKING  WATER  AND  SANITATION  be  pleased  to state:

- (a) whether the Government has conducted any survey to identify the villages lacking drinking water and sanitation facilities;
- (b) if so, the details and outcome thereof;
- (c)  the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  cover  more  villages  under  the  drinking water and sanitation schemes;
- (d) the mechanism put in place to monitor the implementation of these schemes;
- (e)whether any foreign assistance is being sought/received for the implementation of these schemes; and
- (f) if so, the details thereof indicating the assistance received during each of the last three years and the current year, agency-wise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR  DRINKING   WATER  AND  SANITATION (SHRI  RAM  KRIPAL  YADAV)

- (a) & (b) Rural Water Supply is a State subject. Government of India supplements the efforts of the State Governments with technical and financial assistance for provision  of  safe  drinking  water  in  the  rural  areas  of  the  country  under  the centrally  sponsored  National  Rural  Drinking  Water  Programme  (NRDWP). State  Governments  are  vested  with  powers  to  plan/identify,  approve  and implement  drinking  water  supply  schemes  utilising  the  allocation  under NRDWP.

With  regard  to  the  monitoring  of    status  of    drinking  water  situation  in  the country, this Ministry has its online monitoring portal i.e. Integrated Monitoring Information System (IMIS), wherein States enter the status/information in respect of drinking water supply in their rural areas. As per data entered by the States on the online Integrated Monitoring Information

System  of  this Ministry, as on 8.12.2015, out of the 17,13,303  rural habitations  in  the  country,  12,89,402  are  Fully  Covered  (with  supply  of    40 litres per capita per day or more ), 3,60,162 are Partially covered ( supply of less than 40 lpcd )   and 63,739 are quality affected.

Under Sanitation Programme (Swacchh Bharat Mission), in 2012 Government of India requested all States/UTs to carry out Baseline surveys on sanitation  status  of  villages.  This  survey  indicated  that 38.81% of  rural households had toilets.

(c  )  &  (d)  To  increase  the  availability  of  drinking  water,  the  Ministry  has suggested  to  adopt  water  conservation  measures  like  roof  top  rainwater harvesting, erecting sustainability structures for water conservation etc. Moreover Hydro Geomorphological Maps (HGM)  are being used for accurately  locating  new  drinking  water  sources  in  the  field.  In  this  way Government  of  India  assists  various  State  Governments  for  taking  steps  to cover  rural  habitations  and  households  with  adequate  safe  drinking  water supply on a continuous basis. An allocation of Rs. 3796.00 Crores has been made for NRDWP in 2015-16 . Out of which an amount of Rs. 2729.67 Crores have been released to States as on 08.12.2015.

The  Swachh  Bharat  Mission  (Gramin)  has  been  launched  on  2nd October,  2014  which  aims  at  accelerating  sanitation  coverage  to  achieve Swachh Bharat by 2 nd October, 2019, by providing access to toilet facilities to all  rural  households  and  initiating  Solid  and  Liquid  Waste  Management activities  in  Gram  Panchayats.  The  on-line  monitoring  (IMIS)  has  been strengthened and transparency increased in the implementation of the SBM(G) by making all the data including the names and addresses of the beneficiaries of Individual Household Latrines (IHHLs) available in the public domain / online monitoring system. A Mobile application for  uploading photographs of toilets constructed after 2.10.2014 has been launched. Third party monitoring is also being carried out through agencies such as NSSO.

(e)  &  (f)  This  Ministry has taken  a  project for Rural  Drinking  Water supply with  World  Bank  Assistance  named  as  RWSSP-LIS  for  04  States  namely Assam,  Bihar,  UP  and  Jharkhand.  Funds  for  this  comes  through  the  budget under  NRDWP  and    the  releases  to  the  states  during  each  of  the  last  three years and the current year under the scheme  are as under:

| Financial Year   | Amount (In crores)      |
|------------------|-------------------------|
| 2012-13          | 0.00                    |
| 2013-14          | 39.60                   |
| 2014-15          | 135.00                  |
| 2015-16          | 0.00 (As on 08.12.2015) |

Under  Sanitation  Programme,  a  World  Bank  project  to  support  the ongoing  Swachh  Bharat  Mission  (Gramin)  with  a  financial  envelope  of US$1.5 billion(Rs.9000 core) over five years is under consideration.