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Of 5,86,944 villages, 5,63,809 have been reported as covered with Liquid Waste Management arrangements under Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) Phase II, as on 7 August 2026.
A total of 42,98,194 community greywater management assets have been reported on the SBM(G) Integrated Management Information System.
Greywater management support under SBM(G) Phase II is up to ₹280 per capita for villages up to 5,000 population and up to ₹660 per capita for villages above 5,000.
Under Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0, Sujal Gaon IDs have been issued to 12,67,808 of 16,96,213 habitations — 75% — as on 10 August 2026.
Sujalam Bharat is a federated Digital Public Infrastructure for rural piped water supply schemes, integrated with PM GatiShakti and assigning unique Sujalam Bharat IDs to schemes.
Sustain open defecation free status and add solid and liquid waste management to convert villages from ODF to ODF Plus (Model)
Key: A Centrally Sponsored Scheme launched with effect from 1 April 2020, implemented by States and UTs and monitored by the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation on the SBM(G) Integrated Management Information System. An ODF Plus village sustains ODF status, manages solid and liquid waste and is visually clean; the progression runs ODF Plus Aspiring to ODF Plus Rising to ODF Plus Model.
Prevent stagnation of household wastewater in villages and treat it close to source
Key: Financial support of up to ₹280 per capita for villages up to 5,000 population and up to ₹660 per capita for larger villages. Household interventions include soak pits, leach pits, magic pits and kitchen gardens; community interventions include Waste Stabilization Ponds, Constructed Wetlands, DEWATS and Phytorid technology.
Give every qualifying rural water supply service area a unique digital identity for monitoring and verification
Key: Issued under the digital monitoring framework of Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0 through the national JJM digital platform to habitations meeting prescribed standards and criteria. As on 10 August 2026, IDs had been issued to 12,67,808 of 16,96,213 habitations — 75% — across all States and UTs.
Manage rural piped water supply schemes across their lifecycle rather than only at construction
Key: A federated Digital Public Infrastructure under the Jal Jeevan Mission integrating digital asset registries, geospatial mapping and decision-support systems. It is integrated with the PM GatiShakti platform, provides a GIS-validated architecture and assigns Sujalam Bharat IDs to rural piped water supply schemes, enabling source-to-tap mapping, asset tracking and operation and maintenance planning.
Blackwater is wastewater containing human excreta, and its management is what a toilet and its pit or septic tank accomplish — the focus of the first phase of the Swachh Bharat Mission, which ended in the declaration of rural India as open defecation free. Greywater is everything else: water from kitchens, washing and bathing, which carries no faecal load but arrives in far greater volume every day. Left untreated it pools in village lanes, breeds vectors and contaminates shallow groundwater, which is why a village can be ODF and still be visibly unclean. Phase II therefore adds solid and liquid waste management to ODF sustainability, and the interventions listed scale with settlement size: a soak pit or magic pit absorbs one household's greywater into the soil, while a Waste Stabilization Pond, Constructed Wetland, DEWATS unit or Phytorid bed treats a whole village's flow biologically. The per capita funding norms — ₹280 up to 5,000 population and ₹660 above it — encode exactly that shift, since larger villages need engineered community systems rather than dispersed household pits.
Simple Analogy: Phase I gave every house a toilet; Phase II deals with the drain outside it, which carries more water every day and had nowhere to go.
States are expected to dovetail Finance Commission grants and rural employment scheme funds into sanitation works — a standard example of convergence financing rather than a single scheme budget.
Sujalam Bharat's integration with the GatiShakti platform extends a logistics-planning tool into rural water asset management, showing how one geospatial backbone serves multiple sectors.
The reply names the rural employment guarantee by its new statutory name, reflecting the replacement of MGNREGA by the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 from 1 July 2026.
Assigning unique IDs to habitations and to water schemes applies the same identity-registry logic used in Aadhaar, Udyam and DIGIPIN to physical infrastructure.
GS Paper 2 > Welfare Schemes and Service Delivery; GS Paper 3 > Environment and Sanitation
General Awareness > Government Schemes
General Awareness > Current Affairs
Swachh Bharat and Jal Jeevan Mission figures recur in Prelims and in GS2 answers on service delivery
Wastewater from kitchens, bathing and washing, without faecal content — the focus of liquid waste management under SBM(G) Phase II.
A village that sustains ODF status, manages both solid and liquid waste and is visually clean with minimal litter and stagnant water.
Decentralized Wastewater Treatment System, a community-level greywater treatment option under the scheme.
A constructed-wetland-based wastewater treatment method using plants, listed among community greywater interventions.
A unique identifier issued under JJM 2.0 to a water supply service area meeting prescribed standards; issued to 75% of habitations.
A unique digital identity assigned to a rural piped water supply scheme under the Sujalam Bharat DPI.