MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) IN THE MINISTRY OF
DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION
(SHRI BHARATSINH SOLANKI)
(a) Surveying agencies conducting survey for Nirmal Gram Puraskar
(NGP) applications were not allocated state-wise responsibility
and therefore state- wise payment made to each surveying agency
is not available. However, details of total payment made to the
surveying agencies during last three year are as under:-
Sl.No. Year Amount paid to the Survey Agencies
1 2010-2011 916.45 lakhs
2 2011-2012 737.69 lakhs
3 2012-2013# Nil
4. 2013-2014# Nil
#NGP guidelines have been revised in December 2012. As per revised
guidelines, selection of Gram Panchayats for award of Nirmal Gram
Puraskar from the year 2012-13 shall be taken up by the States, while
selection of the Blocks and District Panchayats shall continue to
be with the Centre.
(b) Details of Gram Panchayats recommended and awarded NGP including
in Maharashtra during each of the last three years and the current
year, State/UT-wise are at Annexure-1.
(c) & (d) NGP Guidelines have been reviewed and revised in December 2012.
As per new NGP Guidelines, selection of Gram Panchayats for award of Nirmal
Gram Puraskar from the year 2012 shall be taken up by the States, while
selection of the Blocks and District Panchayats shall continue to be with
the Centre. Under revised NGP guidelines, scoring pattern has been adopted
which is more effective and result-oriented. Award money has been doubled.
To have sustainability, release of award money to the GPs has
been modified as under:-
(i) 25% of the award money to be released in cash on declaration of award.
(ii) 75% of the award money to be kept as a fixed deposit for two years
in the GP’s name.After revision of NGP Guidelines, no funds have been released.
(e) No target was fixed for Nirmal Grams for the year 2011-12 for any
State including the State of Maharashtra. However, the Government of
Maharashtra recommended 3442 GPs for NGP awards, out of which 442 GPs
were given NGP awards during the year. After Total Sanitation Campaign
(TSC) was revamped into Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan(NBA) w.e.f 1.4.2012,
States were asked to identify the GPs with functional water supply
scheme for making them Nirmal Grams by implementing NBA in a saturation
mode in identified GPs. For the year 2012-13, in Maharashtra, 5149 such
GPs were identified for making them Nirmal Grams, out of which 2906 GPs
have reportedly achieved 100% project objectives under TSC/NBA.
