About 98 per cent rural households in Odisha are yet to get piped water facility. Only 1.50 lakh avail the facility against 81 lakh houses. Again, 79,81,973 (88 per cent) rural families have no latrines out of a total 90,20,100 families in the State.Rural Development Minister Badri Narayn Patra while replying to a query of BJD MlA Dilip Ray informed the Assembly that as per the 2011 Census the State has a total of 96,61,0853 houses out of which 81,44,012 houses are in rural areas.
Out the total 81,44,012 rural houses while only 1,29,260 houses have availed the piped drinking water facility a mere 32,39,289 houses have been provided with water through stand post. Hence, as many as 47, 75,463 rural houses (98 per cent) have not been provided with piped drinking water. The Minister further informed the Assembly that according to the Baseline Survey of 2013 out of the total 90,20,100 families in rural areas only 10,37,127 families have latrines while 79,81,973 (88 per cent) families have no latrines.
According to the Minister while only 1.59 per cent houses in rural areas in the State have the piped drinking water facility, districts like Sundargarh, Sonepur, Sambalpur, Rayagada, Puri, Nuapada, Nayagarh, Koraput, Khordha, Keonjhar, Kandhamal, Kalahandi, Boudh, Bhadrak, Baragarh, Balangir and Angul experienced less than one per cent in the implementation of the same.