The CAG report on Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan tabled in Parliament today has revealed large-scale diversions, wastages and irregularities in implementation of sanitation programme. It said, nearly 10,000 crore rupees were spent on the rural sanitation programme in the five years in which wastages and irregularities were noted.The CAG said the Swachh Bharat Mission launched in October 2014 by the present NDA government is aimed at making India open defecation free by 2019. It said, similar targets for eradication of open defecation were earlier set out for 2012,which were revised to 2017 and again for 2022. It said, the lessons learnt and experimentations through this long journey do not seem to have made much impact on the sanitation status in the country. <br/><br/>The CAG pointed out that more than 30 per cent of individual household toilets were defunct or non-functional for reasons like poor quality of construction, incomplete structure or non- maintenance.
News On AIR | December 8, 2015 8:46 PM
Sanitation programmes have failed to achieve targets: CAG