A whopping 75 per cent of rural households in the State have no toilets and 98 per cent are yet to get pipe water supply.
While the State Government has targeted to provide pipe water supply to all by 2020, by now a meagre 1.35 per cent of total households have been connected with the facility.
Rural Development Minister Badri Narayan Patra furnished this information in the State Assembly in response to a question of BJP MlA Dilip Ray recently.
The Minister stated that while there are 90,20,100 households in the State as per the 2013 Baseline Survey, of them, only 1,06,787 have been connected with pipe water supply system. He further informed that only 22,48,568 households have toilets and the Government has targeted to provide toilets to all household by 2019.
Pipe water supply is very dismal in rural areas of Subarnapur, Puri, Kandhamal and Balangir districts. The highest 8.44 per cent of rural households in Kendrapada district have pipe water connectivity followed by 3.49 per cent in Mayurbhanj, 3.28 per cent in Ganjam and 3.22 per cent in Baleswar. In at least 21 districts, pipe water supply to households stands below one per cent.
From the above information, it is learnt that pipe water supply has not been provided to over 98 per cent of rural households and 75 per cent have no toilets.