MINISTER OF DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION (SHRI JAIRAM RAMESH)
(a)&(b): The Government of India administers the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC), a
comprehensive programme started in the year 1999 to ensure sanitation facilities in rural
areas with the main goal of eradicating the practice of open defecation and ensuring clean
environment. The main components are incentive for construction and usages of
Individual Household Latrines (IHHL), School / Aganwadi Toilets, Community Sanitary
Complex (CSC), Solid and Liquid Waste management (SLWM) and Information,
Education and Communication (IEC). Under the component IHHL, provision exists for
providing incentives to BPL households on completion and use of toilets in recognition of
their achievement. A duly completed household sanitary latrine comprise of a Basic Low
Cost Unit with a super structure. There is no fixed unit cost defined under TSC for
IHHL. The Government provides an incentive of Rs. 2200/- (Rs.2700/- for hilly and
difficult area) for the construction and usage of IHHL as Central share and the State
contributes a minimum of Rs.1000/-. It is understood that the incentive being provided
together with the intensive IEC campaign is adequate to generate effective demand and
motivate the community for creating sanitation facilities.
(c): No Sir.
(d): Does not arise.
(e): No, Sir.
(f): Does not arise.
(g)&(h): As per schedule-I of MGNREG Act, focus of works under MGNREGA is on the following:-
i) water conservation and water harvesting ;
ii) drought proofing, including afforestation and tree plantation ;
iii) irrigation canals, including micro and minor irrigation works ;
iv) provision of irrigation facility, horticulture plantation and land development
facilities to land owned by households belonging to the SC/ST, or Below Poverty
Line families or to beneficiaries of land reforms, or to the beneficiaries under the
Indira Awas Yojana of the Government of India or that of small farmers or
marginal farmers as defined in the Agriculture Debt Waiver and Debt Relief
Scheme, 2008.
v) renovation of traditional water bodies, including de-silting of tanks
vi) land development,
vii) flood-control and protection works, including drainage in waterlogged areas;
viii) rural connectivity to provide all-weather access; and
ix) construction of Bharat Nirman Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendra as Village Knowledge
Resource Centre and Gram Panchayat Bhavan at Gram Panchayat level and any
other works that may be notified by the Central Government in consultation with
the State Government.
Addition of activities/works in consultation with the State Governments is an
ongoing process. Ministry of Rural Development has, in accordance with para 1(ix) of
Schedule-1 of the Act, circulated draft guidelines to the States for including access to
sanitation facilities in convergence with TSC, in the above list.
