Current Affairs

ODF PLUS VILLAGE UNDER SWACHH BHARAT MISSION

ODF PLUS VILLAGE UNDER SWACHH BHARAT MISSION

The key criteria and process being used to declare all the villages in the country as Open Defecation Free (ODF) Plus are as under: – 

An ODF Plus village is defined as a village which sustain its Open Defecation Free (ODF) Status, ensures solid and liquid waste management and is visually clean. There are 3 progressive stages of ODF Plus villages:

A village that has met all the ODF Plus criteria will self-declare themselves ODF Plus at a Gram Sabha meeting. The District must ensure mandatory third-party verification of a village, within 90 days of ODF Plus declaration for the first time. The mandatory third party verification will be undertaken for ODF Plus (Model) villages only. However, supervisory verification may be done for the ODF Plus villages across all the three categories (Aspiring/Rising/Model) by the officers responsible in chain of command at Block/District/State levels.

State/UT-wise number of Open Defecation Free (ODF) Plus declared villages under SBM(G) as on 13.08.2025, as per the data reported by the States/UTs on online Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of SBM(G) is given below.

Sanitation is State subject, Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation provides Financial & technical support to States. Phase II of Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) [SBM(G)] is being implemented during the period from 2020-21 to 2025-26, with the focus on Open Defecation Free (ODF) sustainability and to cover all the villages with solid and liquid waste management i.e. converting the villages from ODF to ODF Plus (Model). Realising that the task of constructing toilets is a continuous process and not a one time activity, as there are continuously new emerging households, migrant households etc. which will require Toilets, construction of new Individual House Hold Latrines (IHHLs) continues to be the first charge on SBM(G) funds under Phase-II of SBM(G) and states are advised continuously to plan for the left out toilets and address this gap on priority.

This information was provided by THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR JAL SHAKTI SHRI V. SOMANNA in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

 

MAM/SMP

(Rajya Sabha US Q2804)

State/UT-wise, No. of Open Defecation Free (ODF) Plus villages as on 13.08.2025

S. No.

State/UT Name

Total Village

ODF Plus Villages

Total ODF Plus villages

 

Aspiring

Rising

Model

 

1

A & N Islands

265

0

0

208

208

 

2

Andhra Pradesh

15,995

7,675

55

8,234

15,964

 

3

Arunachal Pradesh

5,134

3,153

847

956

4,956

 

4

Assam

25,368

1,363

876

22,947

25,186

 

5

Bihar

37,138

1,842

234

32,935

35,011

 

6

Chhattisgarh

19,643

972

34

17,707

18,713

 

7

D & N Haveli and Daman & Diu

98

0

0

94

94

 

8

Goa

373

58

2

308

368

 

9

Gujarat

17,973

3,514

919

13,331

17,764

 

10

Haryana

6,618

2,678

86

3,754

6,518

 

11

Himachal Pradesh

17,618

1,280

386

14,452

16,118

 

12

Jammu & Kashmir

6,216

20

17

5,959

5,996

 

13

Jharkhand

29,322

18,409

555

7,702

26,666

 

14

Karnataka

26,484

18,161

263

7,978

26,402

 

15

Kerala

1,435

6

5

1,370

1,381

 

16

Ladakh

240

10

0

230

240

 

17

Lakshadweep

10

0

0

10

10

 

18

Madhya Pradesh

51,043

247

4

50,521

50,772

 

19

Maharashtra

40,247

4,865

98

33,337

38,300

 

20

Manipur

2,567

41

1

26

68

 

21

Meghalaya

6,466

4,727

244

476

5,447

 

22

Mizoram

646

0

0

618

618

 

23

Nagaland

1,425

512

69

553

1134

 

24

Odisha

46,928

833

11

44,239

45,083

 

25

Puducherry

91

53

0

37

90

 

26

Punjab

11,977

9,701

69

2,012

11,782

 

27

Rajasthan

43,463

281

83

42,417

42,781

 

28

Sikkim

400

0

0

400

400

 

29

Tamil Nadu

11,739

535

25

11,009

11,569

 

30

Telangana

9,773

535

0

8,398

8,933

 

31

Tripura

765

8

0

757

765

 

32

Uttar Pradesh

96,174

1,054

80

93,502

94,636

 

33

Uttarakhand

14,967

52

1

14,864

14,917

 

34

West Bengal

38,343

4,357

241

32,580

37,178

 

 

 

5,86,944

86,942

5,205

4,73,921

5,66,068