Reform Measures and Policy Initiatives - Ministry of Housing ...

3.2.1 INTEGRATED LOW COST SANITATION (ILCS)The "Integrated Low Cost Sanitation" Scheme basically aimat conversion of individual dry latrine into pour flush latrinethereby liberating manual scavengers from the age old,obnoxious practice of manually carrying night soil.3.2.2 ILCS Scheme was initially started in 1980-81 through theMinistry of Home Affairs and later through Ministry ofSocial Justice and Empowerment. The scheme wastransferred in 1989-90 to Ministry of Urban Developmentand Poverty Alleviation and from 2003-04 onwards toMinistry of UEPA/HUPA which revised the guidelines w.e.f.17 th January 2008.3.2.3 Salient features:The Salient features of the revised guidelines of the Schemeare as follows:I. The objective of the Scheme is to convert/construct low costsanitation units through sanitary two pit pour flush latrineswith superstructures and appropriate variations to suit localconditions (area specific latrines) and construct new latrineswhere EWS Household have no latrines.II.III.The scheme is on „All Town‟ coverage basis irrespective ofthe population criteria. The Scheme is limited to EWShouseholds only.Targets will be fixed initially in the ratio of 75% forconversion of dry latrines with reference to 6 lacs dry-: 46 :-IV.latrines reported by the States so far and 25% for provisionof pour flush latrines to beneficiaries having no latrines.The scheme will be funded in the following manner:-Central Subsidy 75%, State Subsidy 15% and beneficiaryshare10%.V. The upper ceiling cost of Rs. 10,000/- is provided for thecomplete unit of a two pit pour flush individual latrine withsuperstructure (excluding States falling in difficult / hillyareas). For the States falling in the category of difficult andhilly areas, 25% extra cost is provided for each two pit pourflush latrine. The Scheme is limited to EWS householdsonly and does not entail a loan component. The scheme willbe implemented by Ministry of Housing & Urban PovertyAlleviation directly.VI. The States should select NGOs having adequate experiencein this field who will be funded to a maximum extent of15% over and above the total project cost to be borne by theCentre and States based on the ratio of 5:1 at different stagesof implementation.VII.1% of total central allocation will be retained by theMinistry every year, to be utilized for MIS, MonitoringSystem, Capacity Building and IEC components.