Speak up! Fifty per cent households in Rajasthan do not have toilets: CAG report

-Pradhan Mantri became under Awas Yojana

-The blast in the CAG report

New Delhi, Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Fifty per cent of the houses built in Rajasthan in 2018 during the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and Swachh Bharat Yojana do not have toilets.

This was revealed in the report of the National Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). According to the report, checks were carried out in seven districts of Rajasthan. 590 houses constructed under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana were inspected by 59 gram panchayats of Bara, Bikaner, Bharatpur, Dausa, Jodhpur, Tonk and Udaipur. 290 households did not have toilets. However, Rajasthan was declared a state free from the dirty tradition of open jajru in 2018.

The CAG report further stated that out of 590 households, 358 households i.e. 60 per cent households did not have electricity. Similarly, out of 590, about 191 households i.e. about 33% households did not have LPG system.

Out of 590, only 26 houses were supplied with water through pipes. 73 households still did not have access to clean drinking water. Out of 590 houses, only 391 houses were paved. The rest of the houses did not have adequate arrangements so the people who were allotted had not yet come to live.

This means that the then ruling party (BJP) smoked crores of rupees in the name of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and lost a lot of money. The CAG report still counted only seven district homes. One just had to imagine how big a scam the whole state would have been.