Swachh Bharat Mission—Grameen (SBM-G)

► SBM-G Phase-I

Swachh Bharat Mission – Grameen is a national flagship program which achieved its first milestone of achieving Open Defecation Free (ODF) status in all villages across the country on 2^nd October, 2019. After this success, the mission is in its second phase that emphasizes on ODF sustainability and management of solid & liquid waste in rural areas to achieve ODF Plus villages across India by 2024-25.

Assam was declared as ODF state on 2^nd October 2019 as per BLS (Baseline Survey) 2012. To ensure sanitation accessibility to all, initiatives have been taken to provide IHHL to newly grown families, migrated populations and those who were not included in the 2012 Baseline survey. As such, under Left out of baseline (LOB) and No one left behind (NOLB) 100% toilet construction has been achieved. And under newly emerging household’s category 196003 nos. of IHHL have been constructed as per IMIS on 02.01.2024.

► SBM-G Phase-II

SBM (G) in its Phase II, the state has declared all 25437 nos. of villages as ODF Plus Aspiring villages, where 4479 nos. of villages are ODF plus Rising and 999 nos. of villages are ODF plus Model village. Among these villages, 7967 nos. of villages have arrangements of solid waste management, 23466 nos. of villages have arrangements of liquid waste management and 5996 nos. of villages have arrangements of both solid and liquid waste management. SBM-G Assam has received 3461287 nos. online applications from Citizens for Individual Household Latrine under Direct Beneficiary Transfer Mode from which 189421 nos. of beneficiary are approved and first installment was transferred to 106305 nos. of beneficiary under DBT.

Status of Schemes under SBM-G

Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM)

► JJM is a flagship programme of Govt. of India launched by Hon'ble Prime Minister on 15^th August, 2019 which aims at providing Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC) to every rural household. THe programme focuses on service delivery at household level, i.e., water supply on regular basis in an adequate quantity of minimum 55 lpcd and of prescribed quality of (BIS - 10500).

► Under the Mission, 10 numbers of SLSSC meeting were held and the following schemes were sanctioned:

⇒ Piped Water Supply Scheme (PWSS): 29,572 PWSS amounting to Rs.32,936.95 Cr for covering 67,74,341 households has been sanctioned under JJM.

⇒ Standalone Schemes for School & Anganwadi Centres: 79,575 schemes were sanctioned amounting to Rs.1,154.49 Cr for making provisioning of running water supply in Schools & AWCs.

⇒ Community Water Purification Plant (CWPP): 2346 CWPPs were sanctioned amounting to Rs.293.37 Cr for short term mitigation measure of 2214 Arsenic & Fluoride affected habitations.

Status of Schemes under JJM