MoDWS_NRDWP Guidelines 2013

7/30/2019 MoDWS_NRDWP Guidelines 2013

1/126

NatioNal Policy Framework

i


2/126


3/126


iii

National Rural Drinking

Water Programme

Movement towards ensuring peoples DrinkingWater Security in Rural India

Guidelines 2013

Ministry o Drining Water & Sanitation

Government o India


4/126


5/126


v

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


6/126

vi

NatioNal rural DriNkiNg water Programme

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)


7/126


vii

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


8/126

viii


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


9/126


ix

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


10/126

x


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


11/126


xi

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


12/126

xii


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.


13/126


1

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;


14/126

2


) 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.


15/126


3

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.


16/126

4


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


17/126


5

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


18/126

6

NATIONAL RURAL DRINkING WATER PROGRAMME

To increase economic productivity and improve public health, there is

an urgent need to immediately enhance access to sae and adequate

drining water


19/126

THE PROGRAMME

7

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


20/126

8


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.


21/126

THE PROGRAMME

9

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.


22/126

10


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.


23/126

THE PROGRAMME

11

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.


24/126

12


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%.


25/126

THE PROGRAMME

13

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


26/126

14


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.


27/126

THE PROGRAMME

15

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


28/126

16


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,


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.


29/126

THE PROGRAMME

17

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,


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


30/126

18


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.


31/126

THE PROGRAMME

19

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.


32/126

20


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.


33/126

DELIVERY MECHANISM

21

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


34/126

22


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

MoDWS_NRDWP Guidelines 2013

Documents

Transcript of MoDWS_NRDWP Guidelines 2013