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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | World Bank provides $ 500 million loan to rural water supply and sanitation project -Swati Mathur

World Bank provides $ 500 million loan to rural water supply and sanitation project -Swati Mathur

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published Published on Jan 8, 2014   modified Modified on Jan 8, 2014
-The Times of India


LUCKNOW: The World Bank has approved a $500 million credit for the rural water supply and sanitation (RWSS) project to improve piped water supply and sanitation services through decentralized delivery systems in the states of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh.

According to Census 2011 data, only 31% of the 167 million rural households in India have access to tap water and domestic toilets. About 67% of the rural population continues to defecate in the open and India accounts for about 50% of the world's open defecation.

The project, an official release, said, will be implemented over a six-year period and will support the design and implementation of a dedicated RWSS programme for low income states under the ongoing National Rural Drinking Water Programme in the ministry of drinking water and sanitation (MoDWS). Phase one of the project, approved by the World Bank Board, will support RWSS programmes in 33 districts in the states of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh. These states have the lowest coverage of tap water with Bihar at 2.6%, Jharkhand at 3.7%, Assam with 6.8% and Uttar Pradesh at 20.2%. Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh also lags significantly in sanitation, with more than 75% of the rural households not having access to latrines within their premises. This project is expected to directly benefit about 7.8 million rural people in these states.


The Times of India, 7 January, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/World-Bank-provides-500-million-loan-to-rural-water-supply-and-sanitation-project/articleshow/28518472.cms


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