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Under Sustainable Development Goal targets 6.1 and 6.2, every nation is committed to ensure universal and equitable access to water and sanitation to its people and India is no exception. The country has made a considerable progress toward these targets through various policy and programmatic initiatives since 2015. Within an overall improvement at the country level, this paper examines the coverage of key WASH indicators in tribal population of the country. Secondary data pertaining to the WASH indicators were obtained from the NFHS 2015–2016 and NFHS 2019–2021 for 90 tribal-dominated districts of the country and were analyzed. We ranked these tribal districts on the basis of their performance. The analysis showed a distinct improvement in terms of marked fall in open defecation, uptake of improved toilet facilities, accessibility to improved sources of water, and improved behaviors in relation to the handwashing and treatment of drinking water in tribal population with varying levels of coverage, which was captured in WASH ranking of these districts. The districts falling toward the bottom side of the ranking ladder need prioritization and entail more attention of programmatic interventions in order to sustain the overall progress and to reach the SDG targets of 100% WASH coverage.

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根据可持续发展目标 6.1 和 6.2，每个国家都致力于确保其人民普遍和公平地获得水和卫生设施，印度也不例外。自 2015 年以来，该国通过各种政策和计划举措，在实现这些目标方面取得了长足进展。在国家层面的整体改善范围内，本文考察了该国部落人口中关键 WASH 指标的覆盖率。从 NFHS 2015-2016 和 NFHS 2019-2021 中获取了该国 90 个部落主导地区的与 WASH 指标相关的二手数据并进行了分析。我们根据这些部落地区的表现对它们进行排名。分析显示，不同覆盖水平的部落人口随地排便现象显着下降，厕所设施得到改善，获得改善水源的机会以及洗手和饮用水处理方面的行为得到改善，这些地区的 WASH 排名中包含了这一点。排名靠后的地区需要优先考虑，并需要更多地关注规划干预措施，以维持总体进展并实现 100% WASH 覆盖率的可持续发展目标。