Team Goemkarponn
Panaji: The Goa government has constructed 2,017 Individual Household Toilets (IHHL) in the last three years under the Public Works Department’s sewerage divisions, with 483 units still pending, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant informed the Assembly.
Sawant said that from April 1, 2023, to May 31, 2025, a total of 2,500 toilets were sanctioned under the State Infrastructure Development Corporation of Goa Ltd (SIDCGL) jurisdiction, of which over 80 per cent have been completed. Pending units will be taken up as and when applications are received on the IHHL portal, he said.
Goa was officially declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) on August 31, 2019, and the Chief Minister reiterated that every household in the State has access to a toilet.
The state government, Sawant said, funds construction and maintenance of toilets entirely from State resources. In FY 2023–24, ₹850 lakh was allocated, of which ₹847.74 lakh was spent. In FY 2024–25, ₹1,000 lakh was sanctioned and ₹987.03 lakh utilised, while the entire ₹1,000 lakh earmarked for FY 2025–26 remains unspent.
Details of pending IHHL applications, along with village-wise and taluka-wise data, as well as community toilet projects completed in the past five years.
