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them Open Defecation Free ODF during the year 2012‐13 and 2013‐14.
However, only 17346 GPs 44 per cent and 1274 GPs 4.8 per cent
were made ODF during the year 2012‐13 and 2013‐14 respectively. The
State
‐wise details are given in Annex‐2.6.
Further
it was noticed that no GP was saturated in 13 States Andhra Pradesh,
Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Haryana, Jammu Kashmir,
Jharkhand, Manipur, Nagaland, Punjab, Tripura and Uttar Pradesh
during the year 2013‐14 against the target fixed for saturation
of
4967 GPs. 2.4.4.2
Other discrepancies
Other discrepancies noticed for saturation of GPs were as under:
¾ In
Arunachal Pradesh no GP was selected for saturation except
in West Siang district.
¾ Kushinagar
district of Uttar Pradesh released 2011‐12 funds
amounting to `0.63 crore to 83 GPs for construction of 2866
IHHLs of BPL families, despite the GPs already having been
declared saturated with the IHHLs in 2010‐11.
¾ In
Almora and U S Nagar districts of Uttarakhand having 1455
GPs, no GP was targetedproposed for saturation.
2.5 Structural
arrangements
The Scheme guidelines envisaged formation of State Water and
Sanitation Missions in the States, District Water and Sanitation Missions
in the districts besides Village Water and Sanitation Committees, Water
and Sanitation Support Organisation and Block resource Centres for
operationalising the Scheme in the States. The deficiencies found by
Audit are discussed below:
2.5.1 Lack of planning: shortfall in State Water and Sanitation
Mission SWSM meetings
NBA Guidelines 2012 envisage that SWSM should meet at least twice in
a year. The meetings were crucial as SWSM had a pivotal role in
implementation of NBA through supervision in the project districts,
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convergence with the line departments and preparation of the AIP for
each district.
It was noticed in audit that against the mandatory requirement of 60
meetings,
in seven States Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Meghalaya,
Rajasthan, Tripura and Uttar Pradesh no documented
meetings were held and only 12 meetings 20 percent were held in
eight States during 2012‐14. Meetings requiredheld in these states are
depicted
in the Chart‐2.1 given below: Chart
‐2.1: Meetings of SWSM
The
details are in Annex‐2.7.1. 2.5.2
Lack of planning: shortfall in District Water and Sanitation Mission
DWSM meetings
DWSM was required to plan and implement the district NBA project
with appropriate Information Education and Communication IEC
strategies and convergence mechanisms with other line departments. It
was expected to review and monitor programme implementation for
achievement of the objective of the district annual action plans. For this
purpose, the mission was required to meet at least quarterly. However
it was noticed that in 71 districts of 12 States against the requirement of
568 meetings, only 141 meetings 25percent were held during 2012‐14
as
depicted in the Chart‐2.2 below:
As sam
Biha r
Chhattisgarh Gujarat
Jammu Ka
sh mir
Ka rnatak
a
Ma dhy
a Pr
a des
h
Ma harash
tra Me
ghala y
a Odisha
Punjab Ra
jasthan Tri
p ura
Utta ra
khand Utta
r Pradesh
Total: 4
4 4
4 4
4 4
4 4
4 4
4 4
4 4
60 1
3 2
1 1
1 2
1 12
Meetings of SWSM
Meetings required
Meetings held
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Chart ‐2.2: Meetings of DWSM
The
details are given in Annex‐2.7.2.
Other discrepancies noticed in composition of SWSMDWSM were as
under:
State Discrepancies
Karnataka The
SWSM constituted in 2009 did not include the Principal Secretary
Secretary of Departments of Education, Women and Child
Development, Water Resources, Agriculture, etc., as members. Details
of registration of SWSM were not forthcoming from the records
at the nodal agency. DWSM
was not constituted in the seven
6
districts. However, even
the DWSM at ZP, Belgaum did not meet even once till the end of
2013 ‐14.
Maharashtra No
separate DWSM was constituted in three districts Raigad, Buldhana,
and Nagpur and the scheme is being implemented by existing
Water Management Committee and District Executive Committee.
Four
7
Block Resource Centres and eight
8
Cluster Resource Centers
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were not adequately staffed and the shortfall was 57 per cent and
67 per cent respectively as on March 2014.
Manipur As
per GoI’s letter July 2010, Communication and Capacity Development
Unit CCDU should have State Co‐ordinator, HRD
6
Chitradurga, Davanagere, Mandya, Uttara Kannada, Raichur and Tumkur
7
Raigad District: Tala BRC; Buldhana District: Lonar BRC; Nagpur District: Katol BRC and Parbhani
District: Sailu BRC
8
Buldhana District: Lonar Sangrampur CRC; Nanded District: Naigaon CRC; Jalgaon District: Amalner
CRC; Nagpur District: Narkhed CRC; Hingoli District: Aundha Nagnath Hingoli CRC; Satara District:
Patan CRC
9
Cluster Resource Centre is for a group of GPs
40 32
40 48
104 64
8 16
24 40
32 120
568 2
15 4
3 29
4 11
8 65
141
Meetings of DWSM
Meetings required
Meetings held
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IEC Specialist and Monitoring Evaluation Specialist. It was
noticed in audit that neither State Co‐ordinator nor the envisaged
specialists were appointed. A
team of experts to review the implementation of the scheme in different
blocks though envisaged in the guidelines was also not setup.
Punjab No
separate staff had been sanctionedappointed at District, Block and
GP level for effective implementation of the Scheme
Non constitution of these crucial grass root level Bodies and infrequent
meetings held by these suggests weak planning and less than required
review of progress of implementation, analysis of reasons for shortfall,
strategy for betterment as contemplated for successful implementation
of the programme.
2.5.3 Non formation of Village Water and Sanitation Committee
