The NDA government recently advanced the original PMGSY deadline by three years from 2022 to 2019.
The NDA government recently advanced the original PMGSY deadline by three years from 2022 to 2019.
As per official data of the first year of the SBA (which started on October 2, 2014), till August 2015, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana had done well in respect of construction of individual household toilets.
However at the same time, major states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Tamil Nadu have lagged behind in terms of achieving SBA targets, official sources said.
As against the target of construction of 25 lakh household toilets in urban areas till March 2016, construction of 16.45 lakh toilets had been taken up and 4.65 lakh toilets have already been built, they further added.
Under PMGSY, the government had in fact hiked the annual allocation of the Central release for PMGSY work during 2015-16 by Rs 5,000 crores, which took the total Central allocation to states to Rs 15,100 crores in the fiscal year.
The Central government’s allocation for PMGSY was Rs 9,960 crores in 2014-15, Rs 5,196 crores in 2013-14 and Rs 4,313 crores in 2012-13.
Considering the kind of urgency shown by the Central government towards achievement of targets under these schemes, the need for a performance index to coax states into not only fast-tracking implementation, but also to urge them into a kind of healthy competition among themselves to complete the targets faster, was needed, sources privy to the development observed.
