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Water & Sanitation 

NRDWM: The Context

  • About: The National Drinking Water Mission (NRDWM), erstwhile National Rural Drinking Water Programme, is Government of India’s (GoI) flagship rural drinking water supply scheme. NRDWM includes NRDWP and a few other important components such as the Desert Development Programme (DDP), and Information, Education and Communication (IEC) activities, among others. 

  • Budget Highlights: Allocations of Rs 10,001 crore were made for this scheme.  

  • Implemented by: NRDWM is implemented by the Jal Shakti Ministry (formerly Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation).  

  • Of Note in Target Completion: In 2013, GoI had set a target of at least 35% of rural households with Piped Water Supply connection by 2017, and 80% by 2022. From 6 January to 1 April of this year, 18% of rural households had been provided with PWS connections.

Union Government Allocations for NRDWM
Expenditure as a proportion of funds available has been steadily decreasing over the years.
 
In FY 2014-15, 84% of available funds were spent. This decreased to 72% in FY 2017-18. In FY 2018-19, till 31 December 2018, 59% of the total funds available for NRDWP had been spent.
For mobile and tablet viewing of GoI allocations to NRDWM (in Rs crore), see the bar chart here. 
Click on a bar in the charts in this page to view better

Figures for all years are Revised Estimates except for FY 2019-2020 which are Budget Estimates. 

Target Completion 
MORE INSIGHTS
As per the current norm, households need to be provided 55 liters per capita per day (lpcd). In the first quarter of 2019, 47% of rural habitations were fully covered under the norm. 
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For mobile and tablet viewing of completed habitations with Piped Water Supply, click here. 

Maps on this page are for illustrative purposes only, and do not represent an institutional stand on the territory of India. 

Swachh Bharat Mission: The Context 

  • About: Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) is GoI's flagship sanitation programme. It has two schemes. These are Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin (SBM-G) and Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U). The SBM has a primary mandate of eradicating the practice of open defecation in villages and cities by 2019. Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin is a restructured form of a previous scheme, the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan.

  • Budget Highlights: SBM-G was allocated Rs 9,994 crore, while SBM-U saw  allocations of Rs 2,650 crore in this Budget.

  • Implemented by: SBM-G falls under the purview of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation within Ministry of Jal Shakti. SBM-U is being implemented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).

  • Of Note in Target Completion: IHHL coverage (toilets) under SBM-G stood at 98% of all households as on 1 July 2019 and 30 states and UTs had declared themselves Open Defecation Free. Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal, Telangana, and Goa are the only states that remain.

  • Since SBM-U's inception in 2014 till 31 January 2019, a total of 57.63 lakh IHHLs have been constructed which is 87% of the revised IHHL target.

    • Similarly, 95% of the target for Community and Public Toilets (CTs/PTs) construction have been completed by 31 January 2019. 

    • 23 states and Union Territories had been declared ODF till 12 June 2019.

    • However, while India generated 1.45 lakh metric tons of waste per day as of 12 June 2019, waste processing capacity remained low at 54%.

Allocations for Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin have decreased by 31% in the final year of SBM.
 
Meanwhile, allocations for Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban have increased by 6%.
Union Government Allocations for SBM
For mobile and tablet viewing of allocations to Swachh Bharat Mission, see this bar chart here. 

Figures for all years are Revised Estimates except for FY 2019-2020 which are Budget Estimates. 

Building toilets is not enough. According to the guidelines, 8% of total allocation under SBM-G is to be utilised for Information, Education and Communication activities. This is to generate interest in people to use the toilets built regularly. Of this, 3% is to be utilised at the GoI level and 5% at the state level.
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The programme is yet to meet this benchmark. 
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IEC seems to be prioritised in FY 2019-20 under SBM-U. By the first quarter of the fiscal year, 31% of all of GoI’s releases have been for IEC. 
Between April 2014 and 31 January 2019, only Rs 653 crore or 45% of GoI’s IEC allocation had been released to states.
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MORE INSIGHTS
For mobile and tablet viewing of map of the states declared ODF, click here. 
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