Rural Water Supply
RURAL WATER SUPPLY SECTOR REFORMS PROJECTS

Reforms are introduced in Rural Water Supply Sector to institutionalise community participation in Rural Water Supply Programme to ensure sustainability of systems and sources. The Sector Reform Project was introduced with effect from April 1999. This has following broader elements
  • adoption of a demand-driven approach based on empowerment of villagers to ensure their full participation in the project planning, decision making in the choice of scheme design and management arrangement;
  • shift of Government's role from provider to facilitator;
  • focus on village level capacity building ;
  • ensuring an integrated service delivery mechanism by streamlining the functions of the agencies involved in project implementation and;
  • partial capital cost sharing and full O&M cost sharing by users;
  • taking up of conservation measures for sustained supply of water through rainwater harvesting and ground water recharge.

So far, Sector Reform Projects for 67 districts spread in 26 States have been identified

In Khammam district 469 schemes and progamme were completed at 31-03-2004. Khammam stands 1st in the country for implementing Sectoral Reforms.

Swajaladhara Programme:-

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

The Mission has launched a National Human Resource Development Programme (NHRDP) by the Central Government in 1994. The NHRDP, inter-alia, aims at training at least one grass root level worker in a village through district level trainers who in turn may be trained at selected institutions forming the Indian Training Network (ITN). There are two types of training courses – one for Grass Root Level (GRLT) Workers at village level and other for sector professionals of the department. The workshops for stakeholder department, NGO etc at state level and district level officers are also being organized to improve the coordination among the various departments and other stake holding in the RWS Program.

The HRD program aim at empowerment of Panchayati Raj Institutions/ Local Bodies with the objective of enabling them to take up operation and maintenance activities related to rural water supply systems. It also aim at capacity building of local communities by giving requisite training to mechanics/ health motivators/ masons etc. especially women to operate and maintain hand-pumps and the components of other water supply systems as well as to generate demand for adequate sanitation facilities

In Khammam district training for the following are completed.
  • 942 V.W.S Committees
  • 108 Officials
  • 165 Pump operators
  • 623 Public representatives
  • 62 for accounting

 

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