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 2nd 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 2nd 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) 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.
