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National Rural Drinking
Water Programme
Movement towards ensuring peoples DrinkingWater Security in Rural India
Guidelines 2013
Ministry o Drining Water & Sanitation
Government o India
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In 2009, the Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme was modied as the National RuralDrining Water Programme (NRDWP) with major emphasis on ensuring sustainability owater availability in terms o potability, adequacy, convenience, aordability and equity, on asustainable basis, while also adopting decentralized approach involving PRIs and communityorganizations.
However, experiences learnt in the process o implementing the NRDWP Framewor oImplementation, and on the basis o the analysis o the results o the successes achieved anddeciencies that remain with the NRDWP, has brought out the act that certain modicationsare needed in some components and urther clarity is need on some other issues o theprogramme. Ater consultations with States, amendments have been brought about in
the ramewor, some o which have already been implemented while others are beingimplemented.
The XIIth Five Year plan approach o ocus on piped water supply, increasing householdtap connections and raising drining water supply norms rom 40 lpcd to 55 lpcd has to beincorporated. These changes envisage a new way in implementing the NRDWP. The principalchanges include:-
Focus on piped water supply rather than on handpumps, so as to decrease the pressureZon ground water extraction and also ensure potability o water;
Enhancement o service levels or rural water supply rom the norm o 40 lpcd to 55 lpcdZ
or designing o systems;Greater thrust on coverage o water quality aected habitations with earmared undingZor chemical contamination and Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome(JE/AES) aected areas;
Moving towards the target that, by 2017, at least 50 per cent o rural population in theZcountry have access to 55 lpcd within their household premises or within 100 metresradius, with at least 30 per cent having individual household connections, as against 13per cent today;
Foreword
pankaj jain, i.a.S.Secretary
Government of India
Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation247, A Wing, Nirmal Bhawan, New Delhi-11018
Tel.: 23061207, 23061245 Fax: 23062715
E-mail: [email protected], Website: www.mdws.nic.in
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Conjoint approach between rural water supply and rural sanitation so as to achieveZsaturation o habitations with both these services;
Incentivise substantive devolution o unctions, unds and unctionaries to the GramZPanchayats with respect to rural water supply schemes, through a ManagementDevolution Index (MDI) with clear and specic indicators on the basis o which distribution
among States o 10% o National allocation would be decided;All new drining water supply schemes to be designed, estimated and implemented toZtae into account lie cycle costs and not just per capita costs;
Waste water treatment and recycling to be an integral part o every water supply plan orZproject; bringing the concept o Renovation and Modernization (R & M) into the planningprocess;
Prioritisation o States which are lagging in terms o coverage with piped water supply;Z
Focus on States with Integrated Action Plan (IAP) districts, with an innovative dualZpowered Solar pumps or remote, small habitations and those with irregular powersupply, with convergent unding rom the National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF);
Maing available additional resources or operation and management o water supplyZschemes;
Participative planning and implementation o integrated water resource managementZpractices through water budgeting and both supply side and demand side planning;
Earmaring o unds or coverage o SC and ST population concentrated habitations;Z
Incentive to ASHA worers or encouraging households to tae household connections;Z
Setting up o the Bloc Resource Centres (BRC) ;Z
Strengthen nancial control o the unds released by the Government o India to theZStates ;
Facilitating the above, detailed manuals or Operation and Maintenance o schemes.ZSustainability activities, Model DPRs or water supply schemes and a Water QualityMonitoring and Surveillance protocol have been prepared;
Strengthening the procedure or Accounting and Auditing o the Programme.Z
The above changes and amendments have now been incorporated into the NRDWPFramewor and are being published in this updated Framewor o implementation.
It is hoped that these new Framewor will help in better implementation o the programme.
(Pnj Jn)
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Contents
Foreword ......................................................................................................................................................................iii
Abbreviations ................................................................................................................................................................ viii
Units o Measure ............................................................................................................................................................ix
National Policy Framework...................................................................................................................................1
1. National Goal ..............................................................................................................................................................1
2. Basic Principles ...........................................................................................................................................................1
3. Vision and Objectives ...............................................................................................................................................1
3.1. Vision ..........................................................................................................................................................1
3.2. Objectives .................................................................................................................................................1
3.3 Goals Strategic Plan ...........................................................................................................................2
4. Paradigm Shit ............................................................................................................................................................2
5. Steps to Ensure Source Security ...........................................................................................................................3
6. Long Term Sustainability ........................................................................................................................................4
7. Critical Issues ...............................................................................................................................................................4
8. Norms ......................................................................................................................................................................5
The Programme ...............................................................................................................................................................7
9. Modied Programme ...............................................................................................................................................7
9.1. Household level drining water security .......................................................................................7
9.2. Earmared unds o NRDWP ...............................................................................................................9
9.3. Components o the NRDW Programme ........................................................................................9
9.4. Flexible Policy ....................................................................................................................................... 11
9.5. Criteria or Allocation o Funds under NRDWP ........................................................................12
9.6. Incentive Funds ...................................................................................................................................12
9.7. O&M Fund ..............................................................................................................................................13
9.8. Provision o Drining Water in Rural Schools & Anganwadis ...............................................13
9.9. Public Facilities or Drining Water ...............................................................................................14
9.10. Earmaring o Funds or SCs and STs/SCP and TSP Component ........................................14
9.11. Gender Empowerment and Budgeting ....................................................................................... 14
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10. Support Activities ....................................................................................................................................... 15
10.1. Communication and Capacity Development ...........................................................................15
10.2. Management Inormation System ...............................................................................................16
10.3. Research and Development ........................................................................................................... 16
10.4. Water Quality Monitoring & Surveillance (WQM&S) ..............................................................17
11. Other Support Activities ......................................................................................................................18
11.1. Rigs and Hydro Fracturing Units ...................................................................................................18
11.2. Monitoring and Investigation Units .............................................................................................18
11.3. Programme and Project Monitoring and Evaluation .............................................................18
11.4. External Support Agencies .............................................................................................................. 19
Delivery Mechanism..................................................................................................................................................21
12. Institutional Set Up ................................................................................................................................................21
12.1. National Level ......................................................................................................................................21
12.2. National Technical Support Agencies .........................................................................................21
12.3. Role o National Inormatics Centre .............................................................................................21
12.4 State Level ............................................................................................................................................. 22
12.5. District Level ......................................................................................................................................... 22
12.6. Sub-District ........................................................................................................................................... 23
12.7 Village / Gram Panchayat Level .....................................................................................................23
12.8 Role o NGOs and CSOs ....................................................................................................................23
12.9 Incentives to ASHA Worers ............................................................................................................24
12.10 Public Private Partnership ................................................................................................................ 24
Planning, Fund Release and Monitoring ..............................................................................................27
13. Village and District Water Security Plan .........................................................................................................27
14. Annual Action Plan (AAP) ....................................................................................................................................27
15. Planning .................................................................................................................................................................... 29
16. Flow o Funds ...........................................................................................................................................................30
17. Release o Funds .....................................................................................................................................................31
18. Audit .................................................................................................................................................................... 34
19. Monitoring ................................................................................................................................................................34
19.1. Online Monitoring .......................................................................................................................................34
19.2. State Level ......................................................................................................................................................35
19.3. Community Monitoring and Social Audit ...........................................................................................36
20. Regulation & Pricing ..............................................................................................................................................36
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Annexures .................................................................................................................................................................... 39
Annexure I .................................................................................................................................................................... 39
A. Norms or Providing Potable Drining Water in Rural Areas ...............................................39
B. Norms or Coverage ...........................................................................................................................39
C. Denitions o Joint Monitoring Programme or MDG ........................................................... 39
D. Parameters o Potability - Sae Drining Water ........................................................................41
Annexure II Guideline or Implementation o Sustainability .......................................................................43
Annexure III Framewor or Water Quality Monitoring & Surveillance (WQM&S) ................................ 47
Annexure IV WSSO - Communication and Capacity Development Unit (CCDU) ...................................55
Annexure IV-A IEC Guidelines or Rural Drining Water Supply .......................................................................58
Annexure IV-B Strategy or Implementation o HRD Campaign ..................................................................... 63
Annexure IV-C Guidelines or Engaging Technical Experts in Rural Water Supply
and Sanitation Sector .........................................................................................................................65
Annexure V Guideline on Computerisation and (MIS) ................................................................................... 68
Annexure VI Policy Guidelines on Research and Development or RWSS ...............................................72
Annexure VII Institutional Set Up at State, District and Village Levels .......................................................75
Annexure VIII Management Devolution Index Indicators and Weightage .............................................89
Annexure IX Proorma or Release o Funds Under (NRDWP) ......................................................................91
Annexure X Utilization Certicate or the Year 20__-20__ ...........................................................................95
Annexure XI Water Quality Earmared allocation Guidelines or Utilisation .......................................98
Annexure XII Checlist For 2nd Instalment Release .....................................................................................102
Annexure XIII Format or Audit report NRDWP ...............................................................................................104
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Abbreviations
AMC Annual Maintenance Contract
ASHA Accredited Social Health Activist
BIS Bureau o Indian Standards
CAG Comptroller and Auditor General o India
CBO Community-based organisation
WSSO (CCDU) Communication and Capacity Development Unit
CEE Centre or Environment and Education
CGWB Central Ground Water Board
CSE Centre or Science and EnvironmentCSIR Council o Scientic and Industrial Research
CWC Central Water Commission
CWSAP Comprehensive Water Security Action Plan
DA Dearness Allowance
DDP Desert Development Programme
DPAP Drought Prone Areas Programme
DPR Detail Project Report
DWSM District Water and Sanitation Mission
GIS Geographical Inormation System
GoI Government o IndiaGP Gram Panchayat
GPS Global Positioning System
GSI Geological Survey o India
HADP Hill Areas Development Programme
HRD Human Resource Development
ICT Inormation and Communication Technologies
IEC Inormation, Education and Communication
IMIS Integrated Management Inormation System
IT Inormation Technology
IIH&PH Indian Institute o Hygiene and Public Health
IIRS Indian Institute or Remote Sensing
IIT Indian Institutes o Technology
M&I Monitoring and Investigation
MIS Management Inormation System
MoU Memorandum o Understanding
NGO Non-governmental organisation
NGRI National Geophysical Research Institute
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Units o Measure
NIC National Inormatics Centre
NICSI National Inormatics Centre Services Inc.
NICD National Institute o Communicable Diseases
NIRD National Institute o Rural Development
NPC National Project Committee
MGNREGS Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee SchemeNRDWQM&S National Rural Drining Water Quality Monitoring & Surveillance
NRHM National Rural Health Mission
NRSC National Remote Sensing Centre
NRDWP National Rural Drining Water Programme
NBA Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan
O&M Operation and Maintenance
OBC Other Bacward Classes
PHC Primary Health Centre
PHED Public Health Engineering Department
PRI Panchayati Raj InstitutionR&D Research and Development
RDBMS Relational Data Base Management System
RGNDWM Rajiv Gandhi National Drining Water Mission
SC Scheduled Caste
SHG Sel Help Group
SLSSC State Level Schemes Sanctioning Committee
ST Scheduled Tribe
STA State Technical Agency
SWOT Strengths-Weanesses-Opportunities-Threats
SWSM State Water and Sanitation Mission
TA Travelling Allowance
TSC Total Sanitation Campaign
UT Union Territory
VAP Village Action Plan
VWSC Village Water and Sanitation Committee
WSSO Water and Sanitation Support Organisation
WHO World Health Organisation
WQM&S Water Quality Monitoring & Surveillance
lpcd litres per capita per day
m metre
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The rst government-installed rural water supply schemes were
implemented in the 1950s as part o the Government policy to
provide basic drining water supply acilities
to the rural pupulation.
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National Policy Framework
1. National Goal
To provide every rural person with adequate
sae water or drining, cooing and other
domestic basic needs on a sustainable basis.
This basic requirement should meet minimum
water quality standards and be readily and
conveniently accessible at all times and in allsituations.
2. Basic Principles
Water is a public good and every person hasZ
the right to demand drining water.
It is the lieline activity o the Government toZ
ensure that this basic need o the people is
met.
To improve public health and therebyZ
increase economic productivity , there is anurgent need to immediately enhance access
to sae and adequate drining water and
Government should give highest priority to
the meeting o this basic need or the most
vulnerable and deprived sections o society.
The ethic o ulllment o drining waterZ
needs to all should not be commercialized
and denied to those who cannot aord to
pay or such service.
Drining water supply cannot be let toZ
the maret orces alone. The importance oproviding livelihood supply to all and its vital
linage with the health o the people must
be recognized.
As such, the emphasis is more on Public-Z
Public Partnership (such as between
Gram Panchayat and PHED or in-village
distribution o drining water) rather than
commercialization o drining water supply
by private agencies.
User charges o the water supply systemZ
should have an in-built component o cross-
subsidy to ensure that the economically
bacward groups are not deprived o this
basic minimum need.
3. Vision, Objectives and Goals
3.1. Vision
Sae and adequate drining water or all, at all
times, in rural India.
3.2. Objectives
In rural areas o the country, to
a) enable all households have access to and
use sae and adequate drining water and
within reasonable distance;
b) enable communities to monitor and
eep surveillance on their drining water
sources;
c) ensure potability, reliability, sustainability,
convenience, equity and consumers
preerence to be the guiding principles
while planning or a community based
water supply system;d) provide drining water acility, especially
piped water supply, to Gram Panchayats
that have achieved open deecation ree
status on priority basis;
e) ensure all government schools and
anganwadis have access to sae drining
water;
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) provide enabling support and
environment or Panchayat Raj Institutions
and local communities to manage their
own drining water sources and systems in
their villages;
g) provide access to inormation through
online reporting mechanism with
inormation placed in public domain
to bring in transparency and inormed
decision maing;
3.3 Goals Strategic Plan (2011-2022)
The Ministry has prepared a Strategic Plan or the
rural drining water sector or the period 2011 to
2022. The Goal o the Strategic Plan is:
To ensure, that every rural person hasZenough sae water or drinking, cooking and
other domestic needs as well as livestock
throughout the year including during natural
disasters and,
by 2022, every rural person in the country willZ
have access to 70 lpcd within their household
premises or at a horizontal or vertical
distance o not more than 50 meters rom
their household without barriers o social or
fnancial discrimination. Individual States
can adopt higher quantity norms, such as
100 lpcd.
4. Paradigm Shit
In the Eleventh Five year Plan the basisZ
o coverage under the rural water supply
programme telescoped rom habitations
to households i.e. ensuring drining
water supply to all households in the
community. Hitherto rural water supply
was predominantly provided through
hand pumps. In the Twelth Five Year Plan,
there will be a major shit o emphasis
towards piped water supply with the
goal o providing at least 50% o the rural
population with at least 55 lpcd within
the household premises or at a horizontal
or vertical distance o not more than 100
metres rom their household without barriers
o social or nancial discrimination.
While initiating this move or drining waterZ
security at the State, District and Village
levels, it is important to ensure that the basic
minimum requirement at the household
To achieve this goal, the ollowing timelines have been laid out:By 2017,
Ensure that at least 50% o rural households are provided with piped water supply; at least 35% o
rural households have piped water supply with a household connection; less than 20% use public
taps and less than 45% use handpumps or other sae and adequate private water sources. All
services meet set standards in terms o quality and number o hours o supply every day.
Ensure that all households, schools and anganwadis in rural India have access to and use adequate
quantity o sae drining water.
Provide enabling support and environment or Panchayat Raj Institutions and local communities to
manage at least 60% o rural drining water sources and systems.
By 2022,
Ensure that at least 90% o rural households are provided with piped water supply; at least 80% o
rural households have piped water supply with a household connection; less than 10% use public
taps and less than 10% use handpumps or other sae and adequate private water sources.
Provide enabling support and environment or all Panchayat Raj Institutions and local communities
to manage 100% o rural drining water sources and systems.
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level or drining and cooing needs
and also or other household needs and
livestoc are met.
To prevent contamination o drining waterZ
in the conveyance system, it is advisable to
adopt 24 x 7 supply wherever possible. The
cost o water supply provision beyond the
basic minimum need may be borne by the
consumers.
To ensure this, it is important to maintainZ
potability and reliability o drining water
quality standards both at the production
(water treatment plant/ handpumps) as well
as at the consumption points (household
level).
Focus on personal hygiene, and properZ
storage at the house hold level i.e. at theamily level will ensure reduction o disease
burden leading to improved quality o lie
and well being o the community.
For ensuring quality o water, BureauZ
o Indian Standard (BIS) IS: 10500 was
ormulated in 1990 and revised in 2012.
World Health Organization has also issued
modied Guidelines or Drining Water
Quality (2004) and Guidelines or sae use
o wastewater and grey water (2006). Both
the guidelines adopted health based targetsetting approach.
Water supply or drining and cooingZ
should maintain quality as per BIS standards
and or other household and animal needs,
the water should be o acceptable standard
Water saety plan lins the identication oZ
a water quality problem with a water saety
solution. It includes both water quality
testing and also sanitary inspection to
determine appropriate control measures.
It is a quality assurance tool that ensuresprotection o the water quality rom the
catchment to the consumer and rom the tap
to the toilet.
Health based target needs to be establishedZ
or using groundwater, surace water,
rainwater and reused/recycled water. For
each, the use rather than the source should
determine the quality o the water supplied.
There is need to establish quality assuranceZ
programmes or water supplies to reduce
the potential ris o contamination o water
supply. This has been indicated under
Water Quality Monitoring & Surveillance
Programme (Annexure III).
Installation o a water supply system in aZ
habitation does not coner on the habitation
the status o a ully covered habitation unless
every house hold in the habitation has been
ully covered with potable water in sucient
quantity.
To enable the community to plan, implementZ
and manage their own water supply systems,
the State should transer the program to the
PRIs particularly to the Gram Panchayats or
management within the village.
5. Steps to Ensure Source
Security
Because o its vulnerability under dierentZ
circumstances, in order to achieve water
security at the individual household level,
the water supply system should not depend
on a single source.
During natural calamity or pollution oZ
dierent sources, the single drining watersource may either become non-potable or
inaccessible resulting in acute shortage o
drining water availability to many, especially
to the marginalised people and livestoc.
Water security involves conservation andZ
storage o water by utilising dierent sources
or dierent use viz. properly collected and
stored rainwater, treated surace water/
ground water or drining and cooing,
untreated water or bathing and washing
and grey water/spent water or fushing otoilets.
To ensure ris and vulnerability reductionZ
on such occasions and to ensure reliability
and sustainability, a good rame wor should
consider dierent drining water sources
accessible in dierent situations and dierent
points o time.
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Adopt Wise Management o Water or theZ
equitable use, management and allocation o
water or domestic purpose which involves
optimizing the use o both conventional
and non-conventional water resources and
ocuses on both water quality and water
quantity by providing solutions rom the
catchment to the consumer.
Adopting integrated approach by revivalZ
o traditional systems, conjunctive use o
surace and ground water, storage o rain
water harvesting both at the community
level and at the household level will ensure
ris and vulnerability reduction
Harvesting and storage o rain water orZ
drining both at the community level and
at the household level will ensure driningwater security even in adverse conditions
or a ew months. With sucient storage
capacity this may even be sucient or the
whole year.
For all ground water based water supplyZ
schemes, whether old or new, ground water
recharging mechanism should constitute an
integral part o the system design.
For ground and surace drining waterZ
sources, it is o utmost importance to protect
the catchment to prevent its pollution romhuman and animal excreta and other sources
o bacteriological contamination. Well
designed bunds, channels, bed protection,
and convergence with Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan
(Total Sanitation Campaign) and Mahatma
Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme or low cost waste water
management through stabilization ponds,
are a pre-requisite or ground and surace
drining water source protection.
Convergence with the MGNREGS programZor construction o new ponds and
rejuvenation o the old ponds, including de-
silting, should be built into the system design
and execution.
Excess rain water at the household andZ
community level should be recharged into
the ground aquier wherever easible which
will not only improve ground water quality
but will also ensure its adequacy.
To ensure household level drining waterZ
security and potability, community stand-
alone water purication systems could also
be promoted.
A suitable blend o all the above approachesZ
will lead to wise water management o
drining water at community level.
6. Long Term Sustainability
To ensure lieline drining water securityZ
under all circumstance and at all times, it
may be required to have an alternate sub
district, district and or state level water
supply system in the orm o a grid supplying
metered bul water to GPs/village by
adopting an appropriate system o pricing.
But this does not undermine the importance
o multiple sources including traditional
drining water sources and conjunctive use
o water.
State or district or sub district level grid couldZ
be in the orm o major pipelines, canals or
any other appropriate system connecting
major water bodies/sources.
Treatment could be at the delivery point orZ
at the source, but water quality testing could
be done at both ends.
7. Critical Issues
The critical sector issues that need to be
tacled during the Twelth Plan period can be
summarized as ollows:
Need to ocus on piped water supply ratherZ
than on handpumps
Enhancement o service levels or rural waterZsupply rom the norm o 40 lpcd to 55 lpcd
or designing o systems.
Greater thrust on coverage o water qualityZ
aected habitations to tacle this problem
within the XIIth Plan period.
Prioritisation o States which are lagging inZ
terms o coverage with piped water supply
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Focus on States with Integrated Action PlanZ
(IAP) districts
Maing available additional resources orZ
operation and management o schemes
Conjoint approach between rural waterZ
supply and rural sanitation so as to achieve
saturation o habitations with both these
services.
Participative planning and implementationZ
o water resource management practices
Gradual shit rom over dependence onZ
ground water to surace water sources, and
conjunctive use o ground water, surace
water and rainwater.
8. Norms
To mae norms and guidelines broad-basedZ
and allow fexibility to the community to
plan water supply schemes based on their
needs and to suit the local requirement, it is
recommended that desirable service level
should be decided in consultation with the
community.
Level o service should be lined to the issueZ
o demand, commonly expressed through
users basic need or a particular level o
service and satisaction at household level
on sustainable basis.
The goal should be to move up the WaterZ
Ladder o service delivery so that ultimately
all rural households are provided with
adequate piped sae drining water supply
within the household premises. This is
necessary to relieve women and girls
especially, rom the drudgery o etching
water, address malnutrition issues, and
increase the time available or education and
leisure, while also preventing contamination
liely while etching water rom a distant
source.
The basic minimum service level o potableZ
drining water supply service in rural areas
that was adhered to since the inception
o ARWSP was 40 lpcd. The minimum level
should be 55 lpcd in Twelth Five Year Plan
period as per details given in Annexure-I
A habitation in which all the households doZ
not have the basic minimum drining wateracility o potable quality at a convenient
location on a sustainable basis is to be
considered as uncovered or partialy covered.
There is no distinction between habitationsZ
not covered due to quality or quantity
aspects since in either case the same steps
are to be taen to provide alternate potable
and adequate water to the household.
Highest priority should be given toZ
habitations with 0-15 lpcd, then to
habitations with 15-30 lpcd, then 30-40 lpcdand nally to these with 40-55 lpcd.
Coverage o a particular habitation should beZ
indicated based on these criteria.
The issue o equity and basic minimumZ
needs is to be considered while designing
the schemes and planning investment.
Water Ladder o Service Delivery
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To increase economic productivity and improve public health, there is
an urgent need to immediately enhance access to sae and adequate
drining water
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The Programme
9.1 Household level drining water
security
Starting with the Eleventh Plan, theZ
endeavour is to achieve drining water
security at the household level. Average
per capita availability may not necessarily
mean assured access to potable driningwater to all sections o the population in the
habitation.
Under the plan, all the remainingZ
habitations with population coverage rom
0% population coverage to below 100%
population coverage and existing and
newly identied quality aected habitations
are to be covered, sustainability o water
supply schemes has to be ensured and slip
bacs are to be contained. Priority has to be
given to coverage o 0-25% and 25%-50%population coverage habitations and quality
aected habitations in planning.
Census 2011 reports that 22.17% o ruralZ
households have theri drining water source
beyond 500 metres. Providing drining
water supply closer to such households
should be the highest priority. It also reports
that 11.8% o rural households obtain
drining water rom uncovered wells and 4%
rom other sources (other than handpump/
tubewell, tap water or well water).Habitations with such households shwould
also be covered on priority.
The maintenance o water supply systems,Z
ensuring water quality, reliability and
convenience o availability to every rural
household in an equitable manner has been
given priority.
Twelth Five Year Plan approach
The Twelth Five Year Plan approach envisages a
signicant shit in the way rural water supply is
to be looed at. The principal areas o action and
ocus shall be the ollowing:
Looing at the increasing number o handZ
pumps, and the resulting lowering o theground water table across the country, which
is also leading to water quality issues, there
has to be an increased ocus on promoting
piped water supply rather than on hand
pumps, that too with a gradual shit towards
surace water based schemes.
Ever since the inception o planning or ruralZ
drining water supply, service levels have
been pegged at 40 lpcd. To progressively
remove the gap between service levels
o rural and urban water supply, it is now
necessary to move towards enhancement
o service levels or rural water supply rom
the norm o 40 lpcd to at least 55 lpcd or
designing o systems.
Over the past ew Five Year Plans, evenZ
though ocus has been placed on the
coverage o Quality Aected habitations,
there are still a large number o such
habitations, with more habitations being
reported every year. Through the XIIth Five
Year Plan, it is necessary to have a greater
thrust on coverage o the remaining and
newly emerging water quality aected
habitations, in order to remove this menace
within the XIIth Five Year Plan period.
An important indicator o improving serviceZ
levels, is the extent o piped water supply. In
view o the results o the Census 2011, it is
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necessary that prioritisation o States which
are lagging in terms o coverage with piped
water supply be done.
To ensure equitable development, thereZ
needs to be a ocus on development o rural
water supply in States with IAP districts.
To ensure that schemes set up do not slipZ
bac, and valuable investment is protected,
adequate resources or Operation and
Maintenance o schemes needs to be made
available.
Drining Water supply has a signicantZ
impact on Public Health and on the success
o sanitation practices. Further, ineective
sanitation practices signicantly impact the
quality o water being consumed. A Conjoint
approach between rural water supply andrural sanitation so as to achieve saturation o
habitations and Gram Panchayats with both
these services needs to be a ocus area.
Conjunctive use o water
There should be a move rom over-Z
dependence on groundwater or any one
source o drining water to the conjunctive
use rom several sources, viz., ground, surace
water and rainwater harvesting including
recharge/roo water collection and bultranser through pipelines.
Decentralised approach
The undamental basis on which driningZ
water security can be ensured is the
decentralized approach through Panchayati
Raj Institutions (PRIs) and community
involvement.
This needs to be achieved in Mission modeZ
by involving the community and at the same
time enriching their nowledge and sills in a
way that rural households and communities
are truly empowered to manage and
maintain their drining water sources and
systems.
It is necessary to build a warehouse oZ
inormation and nowledge at the State and
district levels which can regularly contribute
to bringing the hardware o technologies
conventional/unconventional/innovative
systems o water supply and lin the same
to the sotware o sills, nowledge
enthusiasm and desire or ownership o the
water supply projects by the communities
and Panchayati Raj Institutions themselves.
The in-village water supply schemes shouldZ
be planned, approved, implemented,
managed, operated and maintained by the
PRIs and local community.
The State Government and/ or itsZ
agencies/public utilities may shoulder the
responsibility o bul metered transer o
water, its treatment and distribution up
to the village, whereas inside the village,
it is the PRI or its sub-committee i.e. GramPanchayat/Village Water and Sanitation
Committee (GPWSC/VWSC)/ Pani Samiti
that is to tae over the responsibility or
in-village drining water management and
distribution.
Government to play the role o acilitator andZ
with the help o NGOs/CBOs and civil society
to build the capacity o local community/
PRIs to manage the in-village water supply
systems and sources.
Transer existing drining water supplyZsystems to communities and PRIs or
management, operation and maintenance.
To acilitate eective Operation andZ
Maintenance o drining water supply
schemes, an Operation and Maintenance
manual has been prepared by the Ministry.
Reward good perormance and achievementZ
o sustainability.
Activity mapping should be carried outZ
indicating the process, time rame and
incremental improvement towards transero unds, unctions and unctionaries to the
three tiers o Panchayati Raj in such a way
as to enable them to plan, implement and
manage the rural water supply programme.
Local planning involves preparing theZ
community and even household level supply
plan taing into consideration the available
natural resources, sill and potentialities.
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Training o PRI unctionaries and GramZ
Panchayat/Village Water and Sanitation
Committee (GPWSC/VWSC) members is very
essential or local planning and should be
adequately provided or.
9.2 Earmared Funds o NRDWP.
The earmared unds under the NRDWP are:
(i) 10% or North-East States including Siim
(ii) 10% or Desert Development Programme
(DDP) areas to tacle the extreme
conditions o low rainall and poor water
availability.
(iii) 5% o Water Quality or allocation to States
with chemically contaminated quality
aected habitations and JE/ AES aectedhigh priority districts with bacteriological
contamination.
(iv) 2% or Natural Calamities or providing
assistance to States/ UTs to mitigate
drining water problems in rural areas in
the wae o natural calamities.
9.3. Components o the NRDWP
To meet the emerging challenges in the rural
drining water sector relating to NRDWP
availability, sustainability and quality, the
components under the programme on which all
unds, except the earmared 5% Water Quality
and 2% Natural Calamities und, will be utilised
are as ollows:
i) COVERAGE or providing sae and
adequate drining water supply to
unserved, partially served and slipped bac
habitations,
ii) SUSTAINABILITY to encourage States to
achieve drining water security at the local
level,
iii) Provide potable drining water to water
QUALITY aected habitations
iv) OPERATION & MAINTENANCE (O&M)
or expenditure on running, repair and
replacement costs o drining water supply
projects,
v) Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance
(WQMS), and
vi) SUPPORT activities.
(i) At the Central Level
NRDWP North East States:Z 10% o the
annual NRDWP allocation will be allocated
to North East States on 90:10 Centre: State
sharing pattern.
NRDWP DDP:Z 10% o the annual NRDWP
allocation will be allocated to States with
DDP areas on 100% Central share basis.
NRDWP (Water Quality aected areas):Z
5% o the annual NRDWP allocation will be
earmared or allocation to States havingchemical contamination o drining water
sources and with Japanese Encephalitis/
Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (JE/AES)
aected high priority districts. Description
o the activities to be taen up under this
NRDWP Central Allocation Centre-State sharing pattern
Non NE States 73 % 90:10 to NE States and J & k and
50:50 to other States.
NE States 10 % 90 :10
DDP Area States 10 % 100 % Central share
Water Quality
( Earmared ) or chemical
contamination & JE/ AES
aected States.
5 % 90:10 to NE States and J & k and
50:50 to other States.
Natural Calamities 2 % 100 % Central share
Component, Purpose, Distribution and Centre-State Sharing pattern o the NRDWP at Central level.
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allocation is at Annexure XI. This will be
unded on 50:50 cost sharing basis except or
NE States and J&k or which it will be 90:10
between the Centre and States.
NRDWP (Natural calamity):Z 2% o the
NRDWP unds will be retained by MDWS and
used or providing assistance to States/ UTs
to mitigate drining water problems in the
rural areas in the wae o natural calamities.
The remaining 73% o the NRDWP undsZ
will be allocated among the non-North East
States on a unding pattern o 50:50 except
or J & k or which it will be on 90:10 sharing
basis between Centre and States.
(ii) At the State Level
At the State level the programme unds availableor dierent components will be as ollows:
NRDWP (Coverage):Z 47 % o the annual
NRDWP unds will be allocated or Coverage,
which will be allocated amongst States/
UTs on the basis o prescribed interstate
allocation criteria. The unding pattern or
this component will be on 50:50 basis except
or the NorthEast States and Jammu &
kashmir or which the unding pattern will
be on 90:10 basis between the Centre and
the States.
NRDWP (Water Quality):Z 20% o the annual
NRDWP unds will be allocated or tacling
water quality problems to enable rural
communities to have access to potable
drining water. The unding pattern or this
component will be on 50:50 basis except or
the NorthEast States and Jammu & kashmir
or which, unding pattern will be on 90:10
basis between the Centre and the States.NRDWP (Operation and Maintenance):Z
a maximum 15% NRDWP unds will be
allocated to be used by the States/UTs on
Component Purpose Distribution o
State NRDWP
allocation
Center-State
Sharing pattern
Coverage For providing sae and adequate drining
water supply to unserved, partially served and
slipped bac habitations
47% 90:10 (or NE
States and J&k)
50:50(or otherStates)
Quality To provide sae drining water to water
quality aected habitations.
20%
Operation and
Maintenance
(O & M)
For expenditure on running, repair and
replacement costs o drining water supply
projects.
15% Maximum
Sustainability To encourage States to achieve drining
water security at the local level through
sustainability o sources and systems.
10% Maximum 100:0
Support Support activities lie WSSO, DWSM, BRCs,
IEC, HRD, MIS and computerisation, R&D etc.
5 % 100:0
Water Quality
Monitoring and
Surveillance
For monitoring and surveillance o water
quality in habitations at eld level and or
setting up, upgrading laboratories at State,
district and sub-district levels.
3% 100:0
Total 100 %
Component, Purpose, Distribution and Centre-State Sharing pattern o the NRDWP at State level.
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O&M o rural drining water supply schemes.
The unding pattern or this component will
be on 50:50 basis except or the NorthEast
States and Jammu & kashmir or which,
unding pattern will be on 90:10 basis
between the Centre and the States.
NRDWP (Sustainability)Z a maximum 10%
o the NRDWP unds will be earmared or
this component on a 100% Central share
basis to be allocated among States/UTs,
which will be used to encourage States/ UTs
to achieve drining water security through
sustainability o sources and systems. The
component will be unded ully by the
Centre (State share not required or the
component). States will be required to
prepare district-wise Drining Water SecurityPlan and unds under NRDWP will be used to
und the gap in the plan.
NRDWP (DDP Areas):Z 10% o the annual
NRDWP allocation will be assigned amongst
States having DDP blocs/ districts. This will
be unded on 100% Central share basis.
NRDWP (Support):Z 5% o NRDWP unds
on a 100% Central share basis will be used
or dierent support activities which will
be required to be carried out in order to
enable the rural communities to have accessto assured availability o potable drining
water, use o advanced technology, viz.
satellite data/ imagery; GIS mapping; MIS
and computerization; etc. and other sector
support activities, viz. IEC; HRD in the sector;
training, conerences, seminar, R&D activities,
WSSO (CCDU) setup, etc.
NRDWP (WQM&S):Z 3% o NRDWP unds on
a 100% Central share basis will be used or
Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance
activities which is to be utilised to carry outwater quality surveillance at the eld level
as well as setting up and operating water
quality testing laboratories at the state,
district and sub district levels. The Uniorm
Drining Water Quality Monitoring Protocol
may be reerred or guidance.
9.4. Flexible Policy
There will be incentives or States toZ
decentralize and hand over water supply
systems or management, operation and
maintenance to Panchayats. Since there is a
wide variation among States in the number
o habitations having water quality problems
and let over partially covered habitations,
unds under dierent components o
NRDWP, viz. Coverage and Water Quality will
be available to States/ UTs with the fexibility
to choose the component(s) under which,
they would lie the unding to be provided.
As such up to 67% o the unds available at
State level can be used or tacling coverage
or water quality.
The allocation or Sustainability componentZ
is limited to 10% on a 100% grantin aid
basis. States that propose to utilize less than
10% against the Sustainability component
will have to urnish justication to MDWS or
decision in the matter.
Relaxation will be available only to thoseZ
states/areas that are water surplus (with
annual normal rainall more than 1500 mm).
No relaxation o Sustainability investment
would be easible or areas o water decit
States (with normal rainall less than
1500mm) since in such areas attention must
be paid to recharge structures, rejuvenation
o sources (deunct bore wells) and rain
water harvesting structures.
The allocation or Sustainability will be usedZ
exclusively to achieve drining water security
by adopting conjunctive use o surace
water, rain water and ground water and
construction o water recharging structures
with major emphasis on water qualityaected areas, overexploited, critical and
semi-critical areas as specied by CGWB, and
any other area that the State Government
has identied as water stressed area.
Guidelines or planning and implementation
o Sustainability projects are at Annexure II.
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For taing up sustainability projects it is toZ
be ensured that the existing and proposed
rural drining water sources are directly
recharged and or that the detailed manual
on Mobilising Technology or Sustainability
and the Sustainability Manual issued by the
Ministry o Drining Water and Sanitation,
Government o India may be reerred or
planning, design and implementation o
such projects .
9.5. Criteria or Allocation o Funds
under NRDWP
Criteria or allocation o unds to the States under
the NRDWP w.e.. 25.2.2010 (as modied rom
time to time) will be as under:In case o NRDWP (DDP Areas), the criteriaZ
or allocation o unds would be the same
as that or the other components except
that the relevant inormation pertaining
to rural areas o DDP blocs would be
considered. The Desert Development
Programme o Department o Land
Resources, Ministry o Rural Development is
under implementation in 235 blocs o 40
districts in 7 States. The State Government
Department in charge o Rural Water SupplyProgramme should ensure that unds
released or DDP blocs are released to the
respective district within which the DDP
blocs alls, or taing up rural water supply
projects in these blocs only. The States with
DDP areas along with the number o blocs
and area are indicated in the table below.
The allocation o Central assistance underZ
the NRDWP or a nancial year would be
communicated to the States/UTs at the
beginning o the nancial year.
9.6. Incentive Fund
In the criteria or allocation o unds toZ
States/UTs, 10% weightage has been
given or rural population managing rural
drining water supply schemes weighted
by a Management Devolution Index (MDI).
Indicators and weightages or calculating the
MDI are given in Annexure VIII.
This criterion or allocation will be used asZ
incentive to States or decentralization andreorms in the sector.
To encourage the States to bring in reormsZ
and decentralize the rural drining water
supply sector, the States/UTs would provide
the detailed inormation regarding rural
population managing rural drining water
supply schemes beore 31st March every
year to enable the Ministry to nalize the
allocation in the beginning o the next
nancial year.
To achieve this Activity mapping should beZ
carried out clearly indicating the process,
time rame and incremental improvement
towards transer o unds, unctions and
unctionaries to the three tiers o Panchayati
Raj Institutions.
S. No. Criteria Weightage (in %)
i) Rural population 40
ii) Rural SC and ST population 10
iii) States under DDP, DPAP, HADP and special category Hill States in
terms o rural areas
40
iv) Rural population managing rural drining water supply schemes
weighted by a Management Devolution Index
10
Total 100
* Within the DDP areas, considering the ratio of the population supported in these two areas, Hot Desert Areas would be given
weightage of 90% and Cold Desert areas would be given weightage of 10%.
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This Incentive Fund is a part o theZ
Programme allocation and should be utilised
or specied components o the NRDWP.
9.7. Operation and Maintenance Fund
Up to 15% o NRDWP und can be utilisedZ
by States/UTs or O&M and States/UTs will
mae matching contribution, which along
with unds provided under the Finance
Commissions recommendations as grants
to PRIs will be used to meet the O&M
expenditure on drining water supply
schemes. States should devolve the
required O & M und to the PRIs or O & M o
schemes managed by them.
All water supply schemes within the GP shallZ
be maintained by the Gram Panchayat. For
multi village or bul water supply schemes
the source, treatment plants, rising mains
etc., shall be maintained by PHED or the
concerned agency while the distribution and
other components within the village are to
be maintained by the GP. State Governments
shall endeavour to develop sustainable
sources o unding or maintenance o rural
water supply schemes and shall ensure that
the Central and State Finance Commission
and O&M unds released by MDWS are
released to Panchayats.
In case o Providing Urban Facilities in RuralZ
Areas (PURA) projects, the O&M und shall
not be included in the PURA grant payable to
the Concessionaire.
States may use the O & M Manual preparedZ
by the MDWS or prepare a State specic O &M Manual to guide systematic Operation &
Maintenance.
9.8. Provision o Drining Water in
Rural Schools & Anganwadis
All the States are required to compile dataZ
rom the State Education Department and
Women and Child Development Department
regarding the rural Government schools &
anganwadis in existence and the number
o them having drining water acilities and
eed this data online in the IMIS.
The remaining Government rural schoolsZ
and Anganwadis (located in Government
/ public/ community buildings) are to be
provided with drining water acilities by end
2012-13.
A part o this wor will be accomplishedZ
through the unds provided by Central
Finance Commission and the rest would have
to be covered under the NRDWP.Schools and anganwadis with drining waterZ
sources aected by bacteriological or excess
iron contamination may be provided with
water purication systems. Expenditure
or this purpose would also be shared by
the Central and State Government on 50:50
basis rom the unds allocated or NRDWP
(Coverage) and Quality.
S.
No.
State Number o
Districts
Number
o Blocks
Area in
sq. kms.
1. Andhra Pradesh 1 16 19136
2. Gujarat 6 52 55424
3. Haryana 7 45 20542
4. Himachal Pradesh 2 3 35107
5. Jammu & kashmir 2 12 96701
6. karnataa 6 22 32295
7. Rajasthan 16 85 198744
Total 40 235 457949
List o states with DDP Blocks
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States would be required to x targetsZ
or coverage o rural schools and report
achievements online to the MDWS on a
monthly basis.
This activity is to be carried out inZ
coordination with SSA and ICDS.
9.9. Public Facilities or Drining Water
In the rural context, drining water is toZ
be provided under NRDWP to every public
place, including school, anganwadi, public
building, PRI oce, community halls,
marets, temples, other religious institutions,
maret places, mela ground, cremation
ground etc,.
The programme will also address the needsZ
o foating population by installing streetstand posts at convenient locations.
9.10. Earmaring o Funds or SCs and
STs- SCSP and TSP Component
At the Central level 22% o NRDWP undsZ
are earmared or Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan
and 10% or Tribal Sub-Plan to be utilised or
provision o drining water supply to SC/ ST
concentrated habitations.
To accelerate the assured availability oZpotable drining water on a sustainable basis
in SC and ST concentrated habitations, the
States/UTs are required to earmar at least
the percentage o the NRDWP unds or
drining water supply to the SC concentrated
habitations and ST concentrated habitations
as is communicated by the Ministry o
Drining Water and Sanitation based on
the directions issued by the Government o
India rom time to time. Habitations in which
more than 40% o the population belongs toSCs are considered as SC concentrated and
with more than 40% STs are considered as ST
concentrated.
Where the percentage o SC or ST populationZ
in a particular State is high and warrants
earmaring/utilization o more than the
stipulated provisions, additional unds may
be utilized.
The State Governments/UT AdministrationZ
should separately monitor the status o
assured availability o potable drining water
in SC/ST habitations.
9.11. Gender Empowerment and
Budgeting
Women generally manage domestic water,Z
and an essential ingredient o community
participation is to improve womens
involvement in the democratic decision-
maing process.
Since women are the principal beneciariesZ
o this programme and are the pivot around
whom sustainability revolves, it is o critical
importance that women are involved at all
the stages o planning, implementation and
management o rural water supply schemes.
Womens associations could provide a strongZ
ramewor or community participation.
Handpump mistries under various sillZ
development programmes and other
training schemes should also include
women Sel Help Group members, women
o the local areas/habitations as they can
tae better care o the operation and
maintenance o the handpumps than others.
Certicate about satisactory completion oZ
the schemes may be obtained rom women
groups in the habitations.
Women, especially those belonging to SCs,Z
STs and OBCs, should constitute at least 50%
o the members o the Gram Panchayat/
Village Water and Sanitation Committees(GPWSC/VWSC).
GPWSC/VWSC should be a Standing or Sub-Z
Committee o the Gram Panchayat except
or 6th Schedule Areas. Provision or due
participation o representatives o SCs, STs
and Other Bacward Classes in GPWSC/VWSC
should be made.
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10. Support Activities and
Water Quality Monitoring and
Surveillance Activities
There are many elds where technicalZ
support would be required by the Statesto achieve the long term goal o the sector.
Engaging State Technical Agency or
preparation o projects, technical scrutiny
and evaluation o rural water supply
schemes. Hydro-geo-morphological maps,
satellite-data imagery, GIS mapping systems,
use o GPS system or unique identication o
habitations and water sources and delivery
points, support or successully deploying
the Integrated Management Inormation
System (IMIS) and such other activities.
NRDWP (Support): 5% o NRDWP unds willZ
released to States every year or undertaing
sotware support activities. No additional
und will be provided by GoI or these
activities beyond the allocated amount.
All the Support activities indicated below
continue or the 12th Five Year Plan. For this,
each State should set up a properly staed
Water and Sanitation Support Organisation
(WSSO) under the State Water and Sanitation
Mission. WSSOs have to be staed by experts
in social development, human resource
development, communication and IT sills
and other areas as required by them in
addition to engineering and technical sta
that they may already be having; These
unds will be utilised, inter alia, or
i) Support or Consultants at WSSO, DWSM
level
ii) Setting up and running o Bloc
Resource Centres
iii) Providing support or awareness creation
(IEC) and training activities (HRD) taen
up by the WSSO or the CCDU under the
WSSO;
iv) Providing hardware and sotware
support or MIS at the district and
sub divisional level to bring in more
accountability, eective monitoring and
transparency in delivery o services.
v) Research and Development activities
relevant to the State.
vi) Engaging State Technical Agency
or preparation o projects, technical
scrutiny and evaluation o rural
water supply schemes. Hydro-geo-
morphological maps, satellite-data
imagery, GIS mapping systems, use o
GPS system or unique identication
o habitations and water sources and
delivery points, support or successully
deploying the Integrated Management
Inormation System (IMIS) and such
other activities.
vii) Other Support activities.
NRDWP (WQM&S): 3% o NRDWP unds willZ
released to States every year or undertaing
Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance
Activities. This shall include setting up and
upgradation o district and sub district water
quality testing labs, supply o eld test its
and rell and training to grass root level
worers or simple water quality tests.
Activities to be under taen up by the States
under the NRDWP (Support) and NRDWP
(WQM&S) unds are mentioned below:
A) NRDWP (Support Fund)
10.1. Water and Sanitation Support
Organisation (Communication and
Capacity Development)
The HRD and IEC programmes under the rural
water supply programme were merged in
2004-05 and GoI provided 100% grant-in aid
to establish Communication and Capacity
Development Unit (WSSO (CCDU)) in all States/
UTs. The CCDU shall now be merged into the
Water and Sanitation Support Organisation
(WSSO). Beore taing up piped water supply
projects in a village, GPWSC/VWSC should
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be ormed, their members trained and they
should be involved in selection o source and
system, estimating demand quantity, planning,
monitoring, construction and in operation and
maintenance. This requires targeted IEC and HRD
activities in such villages. The aim is to create
awareness among rural people on all aspects
o rural water supply and its related issues and
to enhance the capacity o the Panchayati Raj
Institutions/Local Bodies/GPWSC/VWSC with the
objective o enabling them to tae up planning,
implementation and operation and maintenance
activities related to rural water supply systems.
Thus, WSSO and DWSM can be strengthened
with Consultants in specialised areas and Bloc
Resource Centres set up to liaise between the
GPs/ GPWSC/ VWSC and the Department I/cRural Water Supply. NRDWP (Support) unds
will be provided or activities under the WSSO
(CCDU), as per the guidelines given in
Annexure IV.
10.2. Management Inormation
System
For eective planning, monitoring and
implementation o NRDWP, Inormation
Technology (IT) based Management InormationSystem provides the ollowing support:-
Maintenance o habitation -level status oZ
water supply data to ensure planning and
monitoring at micro and macro level.
Assistance or computer acilities up toZ
subdivision level, in phases, to ensure latest
technology or processing and storing data
in an RDBMS and its communication rom
one oce to another through Internet.
Assistance or development o village basedZ
GIS maps and its storage and processing,
including procurement o digital maps rom
Survey o India and procurement o GPS
instruments or identication and capture o
the location o drining water sources.
Development and maintenance oZ
customized sotware or enabling States and
UTs to ully utilise the computing power or
planning, monitoring and implementation
o various activities in the sector and maing
the relevant data available at the central
server through the IMIS application.
NRDWP (Support) unds will be providedZ
or MIS activities. Guideline on MIS and
Computerization project is given in
Annexure V.
10.3. Research and Development
With the new issues and challengesZ
emerging in the rural drining water and
sanitation sector, a Research & Development
Advisory Committee (RDAC) has been set
up under the Chairpersonship o Secretary,
Ministry o Drining Water and Sanitation,
Government o India. The unctions othe Research & Development Advisory
Committee (RDAC) on rural drining water
and sanitation sector will be, interalia:
i) Identiy eld problems rom the
user departments and community
organizations, viz. Non Governmental
Organizations (NGOs) Community based
organization (CBOs), voluntary agencies,
etc.
ii) Generate new ideas or research,
development and innovation, and xpriority or such projects and decide
thrust areas.
iii) Identiy institutions and scientists
or specic research, development,
innovation and pilot projects, and invite
them to submit proposals.
iv) Help the identied scientists/
organizations to ormulate inter-sectoral
and multi-disciplinary research projects
relevant to the sector.
v) Help the Ministry to prepare specialized
and emerging science and technology
related documents o current interest.
vi) Advise the Ministry on all such matters
which will be helpul in promoting and
adopting useul technology as well as
research and developmental activities
with specic reerence to rural water
supply and sanitation sectors.
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vii) Promote convergence with other
agencies involved in similar activities and
dovetail the same or the benet o the
WATSAN sector.
In order to consider/ approve the ResearchZ
and Development projects on Rural DriningWater and Sanitation, it has been decided to
constitute a Project Sanctioning Committee
under the Chairpersonship o Secretary,
Ministry o Drining Water and Sanitation,
Government o India. The Committee
will consider the recommendations o
the Research and Development Advisory
Committee (RDAC) while approving the
projects.
To strengthen the R&D acilities in theZ
concerned Departments in various States,
State Governments are encouraged to
establish R&D cells with adequate manpower
and inrastructure. R&D Cells are required
to remain in touch with the premier State
Technical Agency.
The networ o technical institutionsZ
may ollow the guidelines issued by the
Ministry rom time to time or eective
implementation o the rural water supply
programme. R&D Cells are also required
to be in lin with the Monitoring and
Investigation Unit and study the Monitoring
and Evaluation Study Reports or initiating
appropriate ollow up action.
The R&D Cell should eep in touch with theZ
documentation and inormation centre o
the MDWS.
Guideline indicating the thrust areas o R&DZ
is at Annexure VI.
B) NRDWP (WQM&S Fund)
10.4. Water Quality Monitoring &
Surveillance (WQM&S)
Under the National Rural Drining Water
Programme the issue o Water Quality
Monitoring & Surveillance has been given due
emphasis. The monitoring and surveillance
results rom the habitations are also to be put on
the database o the Ministry and monitored to
ensure drining water security at the household
level.
The National Rural Water Quality Monitoring &Surveillance Programme launched in February
2005 has now been merged with NRDWP.
Detailed WQM&S Guideline is at Annexure III.
Broadly, the programme is as ollows:
The approach, strategy and mode oZ
implementation o the WQM&S programme
as detailed in the Implementation Manual
on National Rural Water Quality Monitoring
& Surveillance Programme issued by
RGNDWM, Ministry o Drining Water and
Sanitation, Government o India (November
2004) needs to be adopted.
All drining water sources should be testedZ
at least twice a year or bacteriological
contamination and once a year or chemical
contamination.
Under NRDWP, States may establish/Z
upgrade Water Testing Laboratories at the
State, district and Sub- District level with a
provision o testing ew selected chemical
parameters (need based) and biological
parameters. Under NRHM there is a
provision o testing water quality (biological
parameters) at the Primary Health Centres.
Such acilities, along with any other labs lie
college/school labs, in the area, may be used
or the programme.
The existing Field Testing kits (FTk) mayZ
continue to be used or primary detection
o chemical and biological contamination o
all the drining water sources in the villages.
Provision o rells and replacement o FTks
can also be done with this und.
IEC and HRD or WQM&S are to be taen upZ
as part o the WSSO (CCDU) activities.
The services o ve GP level persons whoZ
have been trained under National Rural
Drining Water Quality Monitoring &
Surveillance programme since February
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2006 i.e. ASHA, Anganwadi Worers, School
Teachers, GP members, Social Worers
etc. will continue to be utilized or the
surveillance programme. Training o new
personnel and reresher training should be
provided annually.
Monitoring is to be done by entering theZ
test results o all sources tested by the
designated labs on the IMIS o MDWS. The
habitation and household data must be
collected by two village level members
(i) GPWSC/VWSC member selected in the
Gram Sabha and ully accountable to the
Panchayat and (ii) ASHA o NRHM. They will
also authenticate the test results o Field Test
kits used in the village.
10.4.1 Water Quality Monitoring &
Surveillance (WQM&S) Protocol
A WQM&S Protocol is prepared to guide
State governments in implementing the
programme.
11. Other Support Activities
11.1. Rigs and Hydro Fracturing UnitsThe expenditure or purchase o Rigs/HydroZ
racturing units would be made by the
Central Government and State Government
on 50:50 basis rom the NRDWP Coverage
und.
A rig monitoring plan or the State shouldZ
be drawn up at the beginning o the year to
eect optimum utilisation o these machines
and the crew.
11.2. Monitoring and InvestigationUnits
A special monitoring cell and investigationZ
unit at the State headquarters should be set
up and headed by a well qualied and senior
ocer with necessary supporting sta.
The Monitoring unit shall be responsibleZ
or collecting inormation either online
rom the executing agencies through
prescribed reports (Progress Monitoring
System), maintenance o the data and timely
submission o the prescribed data online to
the Central Government by due dates.
The unit shall also be responsible orZ
monitoring aspects o quality o water,
adequacy o service and other related
qualitative aspects o the programme at the
eld level.
The Unit shall also maintain water qualityZ
data in coordination with the concerned
Department, Central/State Ground Water
Board. Details o dierent technologies
developed by institutions or taclingdierent problems should be provided by
the Unit to the eld level executing agencies.
The Monitoring and Investigation UnitsZ
should also have technical posts o
hydrologists, geophysicist, computer
specialists with data entry operators, etc.
A Quality Control Unit should be an integralZ
part o M&I Units and should wor in
coordination with the R&D Cell. This unit will
be responsible or controlling/regulating the
quality o construction wors in water supplyschemes and will ensure practical application
o latest technologies in the eld.
The expenditure will be borne by the CentralZ
Government and the State Governments on
50:50 sharing basis. The Central share will be
met rom the NRDWP (Support) unds.
11.3. Programme and Project
Monitoring and Evaluation
Central Government taes up monitoringand evaluation studies through reputed
organizations / institutions rom time to time.
The State Governments may also tae upZ
similar monitoring and evaluation studies on
the implementation o the rural water supply
programme. Such proposal needs to be
approved in the SLSSC meeting.
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100% nancial assistance will be provided byZ
the Centre to the States or taing up such
evaluation studies under Support activities
und.
The reports o these studies should be madeZ
available to the Ministry and immediate
corrective action should be initiated as
a ollow up to improve the quality o
programme implementation.
11.4. External Support Agencies
Various external support agencies lie WorldZ
Ban, Japan International Cooperation
Agency, kFW etc. are willing to support
projects in the rural water supply sector.
States that desire to avail such assistance
may prepare project proposals as explainedbelow:
Projects submitted or external undingZ
should include a strong component or
institutionalising community-based demand
driven Rural Water Supply Programme with
cost sharing by the communities.
These projects should address sotwareZ
activity needs, drining water supply,
sustainability measures, enabling target
communities to become open-deecation
ree, environmental sanitation, health
education, income generating activities, etc.
Approval o State Finance and PlanningZ
Departments should be obtained to ensure
that the proposal has been scrutinized or its
viability.
The progress should be monitored at theZ
level o Secretary in the State to ensure the
completion o projects on time to avoid cost
overrun and to tae appropriate remedial
measures.
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The Ministry o Drining Water and Sanitation is to conduct regular
Monitoring and Evaluation o the implementation and impact o the
rural water supply programme in the States.
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Delivery Mechanism
12. Institutional Set Up
12.1. National Level
The Ministry o Drining Water and Sanitation to
Provide policy guidance and nancial andZ
technical support to the States.Conduct regular Monitoring and EvaluationZ
o the implementation and impact o the
rural water supply programme in the States.
Support the States in setting up WSSO as perZ
the NRDWP guidelines.
Assist the States in case o natural disasterZ
or restoration o damaged water supply
systems.
12.2. National Technical Support
Agencies
To assist the MDWS and State RWS&S
Department(s) prepare and advise on specialized
and emerging science and technology issues
as well as research and development activities
with specic reerence to the rural water and
sanitation sector the ollowing National Agencies
have been identied:
All Central Council o Scientic andZ
Industrial Research (CSIR) Laboratories and
Organizations viz., CSMCRI (Bhavnagar), ITRC
(Lucnow), CMERI (Durgapur), NCL (Pune),
NEERI (Nagpur) etc.
Central Ground Water Board (CGWB)Z
Geological Survey o India (GSI)Z
Department o Science and Technology (GoI)Z
Department o Space Technology (GoI)Z
Central Water Commission (CWC)Z
National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC)Z
National Institute o Communicable DiseasesZ
(NICD)
National Institute o Rural DevelopmentZ
(NIRD)
National Arid Zone Research InstituteZ
(Jodhpur)
Centre or Science and Environment (CSE)ZCentre or Environment and Education (CEE)Z
Indian Institutes o Technology (IIT )Z
Indian Institute o Science (IISc)Z
Regional Engineering Colleges (REC)Z
India Institute o Hygiene and Public HealthZ
(IIH&PH)
Any other Central Agency dealing withZ
RWS&S sector development.
National Level Technical
Experts
The Ministry will empanel Technical Experts,
individuals and institutions, to provide technical
assistance to State Governmetnts, provide
provide technical advice in policy ormulation
and implementation, to undertae specic
technical reviews, conduct technical enquiries,
provide capacity building support to the Ministry
and to State Departments incharge o I/c Rural
Water Supply and Sanitation.
12.3. Role o National Inormatics
Centre
National Inormatics Centre (NIC), at New
Delhi would act as technical consultant or the
MDWS at the center and State NIC would act as
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technical adviser to the State Government and
would primarily be responsible or extending
support to the States in terms o e-governance
requirements.
NIC will also maintain the central databasesZ
and will be responsible or maintainingthe National Rural Habitation Directory o
the country.
The role o NIC will also encompass theZ
activity o standardisation o location and
other codes thereby enabling building o
two way linages with the State database on
the basis o standard codes.
The State governments must strictly ollowZ
this coding pattern or achieving this goal
o interoperability between the State and
Central MIS.The State level NIC Ocer is the memberZ
o the SLSSC Committee or MIS and
Computerization projects only and
can support the State Government as
e-governance/ICT consultant or IT related
activities.
At the State level, NIC state unit will extendZ
technical support to the MIS programme o
the state, including development o sotware
applications and training as per mutually
agreed proposals.
12.4. State Level
Public Health Engineering Departments/Rural
Water Supply and Sanitation Departments/
Boards are the primary executing agencies
or commissioning rural water supply
schemes at the state level. The changed
water resource situation and need to adopt
decentralized strategy emphasizing a user-
driven demand-oriented approa