CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES, AND PICTURES VII ABBREVIATIONS VIII ACKNOWLEDGMENT IX EXECUTIVE SUMMARY X 1: BACKGROUND AND RESEACH FRAMEWORK 1 1.1 Background 2 1.2 World Sanitation Situation 4 1.3 Sanitation Situation in India 5 1.4 Research Methodology and Objective 8 1.5 Policy Initiative and Issues with performance of sanitation 10 2: CITY PROFILE AND SANITATION SITUATION OF JAIPUR 20 2.1 Introduction / History 21 2.2 Demographic Profile of the City 25 2.3 Geographical Profile of the City 28 2.4 Sewerage Network Condition 28 2.5 Service delivery status in slums of Jaipur 33 2.6 Institutional Framwork 34 2.7 Waste Water Management system in Walled city of Jaipur 38 2.8 Sanitation Situation in Jaipur 43 3: ASSESSMENT METHOD AND APPROACH 49 3.1 Assessment method and approach 50 3.2 Service level Benchmarking 50 3.3 Need of SLB 51 3.4 Activity under SLB 51 3.5 Sanitation Ranking System 52 3.6 Indicators and marking method 52 3.7 Classification of city with respect to sanitation ranking system 54 4: FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION 55 4.1 Findings 56 4.2 Major Issues 57 4.3 Strategy for Improvement in Sanitation 57 4.4 Conclusion .58 REFERENCES 59 ANNEXURE 1: LIST OF SLB INDICATORS WITH BENCHMARK 60 ANNEXURE 2: LIST OF NUSP INDICATORS 64