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Government of India assists all State Governments to substantiate their efforts for improving living standard of people. This is done through disbursing resources via various development schemes those are to be implemented in a targeted manner. However in recent years, unfortunately, has been observed time and again that many of State Governments are somehow do not utilise the central assistance to the fullest so surrender back the unutilised component back to the Centre. This is a very serious concern since this results into people remain deprive of basic amenities such as water, food, health etc, and dilutes the impression projected by most of the State Governments that they are unable to ensure availability of safe water, health education etc to the mass as not have adequate resources for. 

In Rajasthan too it was reported by various sources that State Government has not utilised the financial assistance provided by Central Government during last few years to facilitate delivering safe drinking water to millions of rural population under various schemes of Rural Drinking Water Supply Programme (RDWSP). 

Follows the outcome of analysis done of below mentioned select schemes; all of them have some component of Central assistance under RDWSP during 1998-99 to 2001-02. 

•         Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (ARWSP)

•         Dessert Development Programme under the Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme

•         Minimum Needs Programme /Drinking Water (MNP)

•         Pradhan Mantri Gramoday / Rural Water Supply Yojana (PMGY)

Out of these four schemes the data was available for first three. 

The analysis consists of comparing resource allocated by the Central Government to Rajasthan with extent of its utilization by the State Government as well as physical targets achieved. Also, comparing the performance of Rajasthan to other States where same schemes were implemented. However lack of adequate data restricted the inter-state comparative analysis to financial year 2000-01 only.

Summary of the analysis of ARWSP and DDP schemes                                                                       

• The average of un-utilised portion of the Central grant provided to various States during last four years is 21.26 
  percent.

• Referring physical targets, achievement seems slightly tardy since the total number of ‘uncovered’ villages with  
  drinking water supply was 6491 as on 29^th January 2002. Similarly the shortfall to the target of ‘partially covered’    
  villages was by 13832 numbers.

• Thus a total of 6491 villages are yet to be provided any sort of drinking water facility as well as 13832 villages are 
  covered only partially, totalling to a number of 20323 villages covered under schemes either completely or partially.

• West Bengal was the State that utilised the central assistance under these schemes to maximum comparing to 
  other States, remains with un-utilised amount of 0.01 percent.

• Manipur recorded the highest non-utilisation of the central assistance for water supply with a figure of 76.92 percent 
  of the total assistance remained as un-utilised.

• The corresponding figure in case of Rajasthan was 16.13 percent for the year 2000-01.

• Rajasthan got maximum allocation from the Central Government and ranked 8^th in order to utilise the assistance to 
  the maximum.

• For last for years, the average un-utilisation of central assistance provided under these schemes to Rajasthan  
  amounts to 20.08 percent.

• In terms of physical targets, 21.63 percent of the total villages in Rajasthan are still to be provided with any sort of
  drinking water facility, either fully or to partial extent.

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