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Consider the following statements about sewerage and sanitation in Rajasthan's urban areas: 1. RUIDP Phase-I, funded by ADB, included Jaipur for urban infrastructure, including wastewater management. 2. The Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project (RUIDP) has funded sewerage networks in cities like Ajmer, Bharatpur, Bikaner, Jodhpur, Kota and Pushkar. 3. As per the National Urban Sanitation Policy (NUSP), a city achieving 100% sanitation coverage gets ODF+ certification. Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Correct answer: (A) 1 and 2 only.

In Rajasthan urban sanitation, statements 1 and 2 are correct, while statement 3 is incorrect because ODF+ is a Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban protocol, not a certification under the National Urban Sanitation Policy.

  1. (A)

    1 and 2 only

  2. (B)

    2 and 3 only

  3. (C)

    1 only

  4. (D)

    1, 2 and 3

Explanation

RUIDP is the key clue. The Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project was ADB-funded in Phase-I and covered towns such as Ajmer, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota and Udaipur, with project sectors including water supply, wastewater management, solid waste management and related urban services. Later RUIDP support for sewerage networks in secondary cities such as Bharatpur and Pushkar also fits the same urban-infrastructure mandate, so statement 2 is correct. Statement 3 fails because it mixes two frameworks: NUSP gives a sanitation policy framework, whereas Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban's Standardised Protocols list ODF, ODF+, ODF++, Water+ and Garbage Free City protocols under SBM-U, with certification based on independent third-party assessment.

Why the other options are wrong

  • (B) It excludes statement 1 even though Jaipur is part of the ADB-funded RUIDP Phase-I urban-infrastructure coverage, and it includes statement 3, which wrongly assigns ODF+ to NUSP.
  • (C) It accepts only statement 1, but RUIDP project-domain material also supports sewerage and wastewater-management work under RUIDP in Rajasthan's urban centres.
  • (D) It treats all three statements as correct, but ODF+ belongs to the SBM-U protocol and certification system rather than to NUSP.

Concept

This tests Rajasthan urban infrastructure schemes and sanitation-governance frameworks. RAS repeats such items because candidates often confuse project funding bodies, city coverage and certification labels across RUIDP, NUSP and SBM-U.

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