*ICSSR Doctoral Fellow, PH.D. Research Scholar (F.T), PG& Research, Department of Economics Gobi Arts & Science College, Gobichettipalayam, Erode, Tamilnadu
**Assistant Professor, PG& Research, Department of Economics Gobi Arts & Science College, Gobichettipalayam, Erode, Tamilnadu
Online published on 7 April, 2014.
The present attempt to assess the rural water supply and sanitation coverage in India. Safe water is one of the most important felt without sustainable access to safe drinking water needs in public health in developing countries in and sanitation by 2015. In India every year large number of deaths of children under the age of five is attributed to poor quality of drinking water. Apart from health effects, inadequate quantity of water supply and sanitation services leave adverse impacts on the environment mainly leading to contamination of soil and water due to stagnation of sewage. A recently published World Health Organisation report places diarrhoeal diseases at sixth place in the list of global killers and third in the list of morbidity. This paper attempts on to find out the estimation of improve the water supply and sanitation coverage in India. To find out the allocation amount of rural water supply and sanitation expenditure pattern to improve the basic amenities. To identify the achievements of rural water supply and sanitation.
Quality and poor, Rural Water Supply and Sanitation, World Health Organisation