{"id":7337,"date":"2020-03-31T17:38:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7337"},"modified":"2020-03-31T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:08:16","slug":"economics-of-water-and-sanitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/economics-of-water-and-sanitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics of Water and Sanitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: G.S paper III: Economy: Resources<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.nationalgeographic.org\/assets\/photos\/262\/885\/c5c5e9e5-bd63-4115-946a-1a5f4bf07616.jpg\" alt=\"Clean Water and Sanitation: A Global Report Card | National ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The most important differentiating factor which allowed the SBM to leverage the collective strength of 1.3 crore people was exactly the political leadership.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>SBM: Recognized by African Nations:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In January 2020, a Ministerial Round Table discussion was held in Addis Ababa on \u2018Scaling up Sanitation in Africa\u2019. It was primarily based on the major lessons coming from the implementation of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM).<br \/>\n\u2022 They unanimously agreed that the biggest bottleneck they faced in replicating the SBM model in their countries was that they were not able to convince their Finance Ministries to invest heavily in sanitation, like Indian has done since 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Economics of Sanitation:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UNICEF recently estimated that the investments in sanitation in India are yielding a 400% return, with each rural household in an ODF village saving Rs. 50,000 on account of avoided medical spends, time savings and lives saved.<br \/>\n\u2022 Meanwhile, moving ahead, the Toilet Board Coalition has estimated that the sanitation infrastructure and services market in India will be worth over $60 billion by 2021, creating many new jobs, even in the most rural areas of the country.<br \/>\n\u2022 It is fairly clear now that investment in sanitation is actually a facilitator of broader economic, health and social gains.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Budget Provisions:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iwa-network.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/block_1-1.png\" alt=\"Urban Sanitation and Wastewater - International Water Association\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The government is committed to ensuring that this success is sustained.<br \/>\n\u2022 The finance minister in the budget for 2020-21 has announced about Rs. 10,000 crore for rural sanitation to focus on ODF sustainability, biodegradable waste management, faecal sludge management and most importantly plastic waste management for all villages by 2024.<br \/>\n\u2022 The govt is committed to delivering its piped water supply. The PM announced the Jal Jeeven Mission (JJM) with the goal of ensuring piped water supply for all households of India by 2024.<br \/>\n\u2022 Backing its commitment, in the budget for 2020-21, the government has already allocated a central share of Rs. 11,500 crore for the JJM, with an additional provision for extra budgetary resources of Rs. 12,000 crore.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prsindia.org\/theprsblog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/Figure-1-5.png\" alt=\"Status of Drinking Water and Sanitation in rural India | PRSIndia\" \/><br \/>\n\u2022 The biggest impetus to the rural water and sanitation sector is the earmarking of 50% of the Rs. 90,000 crore grant to rural local bodies under the 15th Commission for drinking water and sanitation.<br \/>\n\u2022 This approach will ensure that just like sanitation provision of water supply and its upkeep will also become everyone\u2019s business.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/yTmfe69cKv6jDrBGkgkx9Aq3EILpI1TDM-NEanjwA_dRxrs7p7-4QstNoMhCQhKrT85DtuyTyeTZHub3zVfrTxCSBvtjjQIF_AbvYMkV-Iq1lye_SL94z032-NcI6F_ijs9EKLwTH7ML\" alt=\"SANITATION \u2013 Dr Rajiv Desai\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS. <\/span><a title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: G.S paper III: Economy: Resources Introduction: The most important differentiating factor which allowed the SBM to leverage the collective<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,42,43],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-iii-technology-economic-development-bio-diversity-environment-security-and-disaster-management","category-indian-economy","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7338,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337\/revisions\/7338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}