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19 Dec, 2013

With More TVs than Toilets, India to Speed Up Total Sanitation Campaign, Reduce Open Defecation

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New Delhi, Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation (16 December 2013) – The Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation Mr Bharatsinh Solanki said in a statement in the Rajya Sabha, Upper House of Parliament, in New Delhi today that as per Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) Report Update – 2013 published by World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 50% of India’s population (620 million people) are practicing Open Defecation.

As per Census 2011 report, 46.9% households in the Country have toilets within premises, 47.2% households possess Television sets and 63.2% households have Telephones.

The 12th Plan Objectives for rural sanitation is to achieve 50% Gram Panchayats to become Nirmal Grams by 2017. To achieve this objective the Government has restructured the rural sanitation programme and launched the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA), with revised strategies to achieve the target.

Since the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA) is a demand driven programme, no year-wise targets are set under NBA.   However, the achievement reported by the States into the Online Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of the Ministry under the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC)/ Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA) during the year 2012-13 is as follows:

S.N. State/UT Name 2012-13
Household latrines School toilets Anganwadi toilets
1 Andhra Pradesh 384279 4199 1574
2 Arunachal Pradesh 5760 0 8
3 Assam 273240 77 76
4 Bihar 796699 17009 4822
5 Chhattisgarh 52045 1387 220
6 D & N Haveli 0 0 0
7 Goa 0 0 0
8 Gujarat 171977 4666 451
9 Haryana 62949 148 315
10 Himachal Pradesh 5183 1215 1066
11 Jammu & Kashmir 71900 2011 76
12 Jharkhand 48500 613 684
13 Karnataka 296429 1758 687
14 Kerala 5674 34 322
15 Madhya Pradesh 558189 1033 804
16 Maharashtra 189306 159 5800
17 Manipur 43917 0 53
18 Meghalaya 14406 1603 130
19 Mizoram 4967 106 219
20 Nagaland 22149 28 20
21 Orissa 118318 1138 956
22 Puducherry 0 0 0
23 Punjab 57421 345 620
24 Rajasthan 252800 15511 3421
25 Sikkim 0 0 0
26 Tamil Nadu 324216 3095 2076
27 Tripura 7035 412 2
28 Uttar Pradesh 134873 30 80
29 Uttarakhand 97815 344 19
30 West Bengal 559115 19475 12176
Grand Total:- 4559162 76396 36677

 

The Minister said that to accelerate the progress of sanitation in rural areas of the country, Government of India reviewed and revamped the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) in the XIIth Five Year Plan.

Under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, the strategy is to transform rural India into ‘Nirmal Bharat’ by adopting the ”community led”, demand-driven and ”people centered” strategies and community saturation approach, with emphasis on awareness creation and demand generation for sanitary facilities in houses and schools. Conjoint approach with the scheme of National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) has been adopted to address the issue of availability of water in the Gram Panchayats for sustaining sanitation facilities created.

Main activities under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan include:

• Construction of Individual House Hold Latrines for which the enhanced incentive for individual household latrine units has been extended to all Below Poverty Line (BPL) Households and Above Poverty Line Households (APL) restricted to SCs/STs, small and marginal farmers, landless labourers with homestead, physically handicapped and women headed households.

• Convergence with Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme for additional financial assistance.

• Provision of sanitation facilities in Government Schools and Anganwadis in Government buildings.

• Assistance to Production Centres of sanitary materials and Rural Sanitary Marts• Provision of construction of Community Sanitary Complexes.• Solid and Liquid Waste management (SLWM) to be taken up in project mode for each Gram Panchayat (GP) with financial assistance capped for a GP on the basis of number of household to enable all Panchayats to implement sustainable SLWM projects.

• Information Education Communication (IEC) activities for sustainable demand generation for sanitation facility.

• Provision of extensive capacity building of the stake holders like Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), Village Water and Sanitation Committees (VWSCs) and field functionaries for sustainable sanitation.

The rural sanitation coverage, in terms of access to toilet facilities, State-wise/UT as per Census 2011 is as follows:

Rural Sanitation coverage as per Census 2011,  State-wise/UT
S.N. State/UT Sanitation Coverage (%)
1 A & N Islands 61.08
2 Andhra Pradesh 34.88
3 Arunachal Pradesh 55.75
4 Assam 61.54
5 Bihar 18.61
6 Chandigarh 94.31
7 Chhattisgarh 14.85
8 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 29.28
9 Daman & Diu 65.80
10 Goa 72.60
11 Gujarat 34.24
12 Haryana 57.71
13 Himachal Pradesh 67.45
14 Jammu & Kashmir 41.71
15 Jharkhand 8.33
16 Karnataka 31.89
17 Kerala 94.41
18 Lakshadweep 98.34
19 Madhya Pradesh 13.58
20 Maharashtra 44.20
21 Manipur 87.73
22 Meghalaya 56.94
23 Mizoram 87.10
24 Nagaland 77.69
25 NCT of Delhi 86.50
26 Odisha 15.32
27 Puducherry 40.41
28 Punjab 71.89
29 Rajasthan 20.13
30 Sikkim 85.14
31 Tamil Nadu 26.73
32 Tripura 84.59
33 Uttar Pradesh 22.87
34 Uttarakhand 54.96
35 West Bengal 48.70
INDIA 32.67