Lok Sabha Question No. 763 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-03
Subject: Nirmal Gram Puraskar
Ministry: DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION
Asked by: PONGULETI SRINIVASA REDDY

## Government of India

## Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 763 TO BE ANSWERED ON 3-12-2015

## Nirmal Gram Puraskar

## 763. SHRI PONGULETI SRINIVASA REDDY:

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

- (a)  Whether  the  Government  has  discontinued/proposes  to  discontinue  the  Nirmal  Gram Puraskar  after  reviewing  the  efficacy  of  the  scheme  and  consequent  to  the  launch  of  Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), if so, the details thereof;

(b) whether the Government proposes to formulate a scheme to incentivise State Governments on the basis of their performance towards achieving the goals of SBM;

(c) if so, the details thereof and the number of panchayats reported to have achieved the status 'open defecation-free panchayats' in the country, State/UT-wise; and

(d) whether any target has been set under SBM to make the rural areas open defecation-free and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF DRINKING WATER & SANITATION

## (SHRI RAM KRIPAL YADAV)

- (a) Yes Madam. The Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP) has been discontinued.
- (b)  Yes  Madam.  The  Swachh  Bharat  Mission  (Gramin)  guidelines  provide  for  incentivizing States on the basis of their performance.
- (c) A World Bank Project to incentivize the States on the basis of certain performance indicators is  under  consideration.  Ministry  has  issued  the  guidelines  for  Open  Defecation  Free  (ODF) verification.  Integrated  Management  Information  System  (IMIS)  Module  for  ODF  verification has also developed. States are request to complete the process of ODF verification of all existing ODF villages/GPs and report on IMIS by 31 st   December, 2015. However, the number of Open Defecation-Free Gram Panchayats as on 30-11-2015 as reported by the States on the IMIS of Ministry is at Annexure-1.
- (d) The Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) has a goal to achieve Swachh Bharat by 2 nd October, 2019.

Annexure-1

## Statement referred in part (c) of the reply to Lok Sabha Un-starred Question No.763 due for reply on 3-12-2015

## State/UT-wise, number of Gram Panchayats  declared Open Defecation Free as on 30-11-2015

| State/UT          |   ODF -GPs |
|-------------------|------------|
| Andhra Pradesh    |        108 |
| Arunachal Pradesh |         72 |
| Assam             |         10 |
| Bihar             |          9 |
| Chhattisgarh      |        445 |
| D &NHaveli        |          0 |
| Goa               |          0 |
| Gujarat           |          3 |
| Haryana           |        833 |
| Himachal Pradesh  |       1507 |
| Jammu &Kashmir    |         10 |
| Jharkhand         |          5 |
| Karnataka         |        197 |
| Kerala            |          0 |
| Madhya Pradesh    |        446 |
| Maharashtra       |       2988 |
| Manipur           |          0 |
| Meghalaya         |        577 |
| Mizoram           |         20 |
| Nagaland          |          0 |
| Odisha            |         13 |
| Puducherry        |          0 |
| Punjab            |        589 |
| Rajasthan         |        796 |
| Sikkim            |         10 |
| Tamil Nadu        |        978 |
| Telangana         |        573 |
| Tripura           |         10 |
| Uttar Pradesh     |        126 |
| Uttarakhand       |         15 |
| West Bengal       |        209 |
|                   |      10549 |