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Rural Development Ministry survey
Why is it in news?
- Kuligod in Karnataka’s Belagavi district is the country’s best developed village, but more than a third of the gram panchayats ranked in the top 10 are in Andhra Pradesh, according to the findings of an ongoing Rural Development Ministry survey.
What are Findings?
- With multiple panchayats assigned the same score – and thus tied at the same ranking – there are 97 panchayats in the top 10 ranks.
- Of these, 37 panchayats are in Andhra Pradesh while 24 are in Tamil Nadu.
- Villages from other States are represented only in single digits.
- Of the States going to the polls next month, Telengana and Madhya Pradesh have five and four panchayats in the top 10 ranks respectively.
- At the national level, the data shows progress in some areas and also spotlights discrepancies in respect of targets met under some other government schemes.
- For example, the survey reveals that more than 95% of villages have electricity available for domestic use, while the government had earlier this year claimed that 100% of villages had power connections.
- Similarly with regard to sanitation, the survey shows only 58% of villages — slightly more than 2 lakh of the 3.5 lakh surveyed villages — are open defecation free (ODF). However, according to the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan-Gramin, 5.13 lakh of India’s 6 lakh villages are already ODF.
- The survey also shows only 21% of villages having a community waste disposal system.
- About a quarter of all villages have more than 75% of households using clean energy, such as LPG or biogas.