In a serious push to the continued Jal Jeevan Mission, the federal government has determined to rope in an unbiased company for a nation-wide survey to observe the implementation of its flagship scheme to supply potable ingesting water to each family in all six lakh villages.
The survey ‘Jal Jeevan Survekshan 2023’ launched by Jal Shakti Ministry will assess the performance of family tap-water connections in all villages, examine if they’re receiving 55 litres per capita per day (lpcd) of water on common foundation and whether or not the standard of water is of prescribed commonplace. It can even consider if the water supply is sustainable in the long term. The survey will cowl public establishment buildings similar to faculties, anganwadi, gram panchayat, public well being in addition to wellness facilities in villages in all 34 states and Union Territories.
Twice A Year Field Report
The floor survey can be carried out twice a 12 months — as soon as within the pre-monsoon season from April to June 2023 and second throughout the post-monsoon season from November 2023 to January 2024 (put up monsoon) in randomly chosen villages.
As reported by News18 earlier, the annual train is not going to simply monitor high quality of water being delivered however the frequency of availability, in addition to the service supply underneath the scheme, together with promptness of repairs. It can even examine the efficiency of water high quality testing laboratories, availability of grievance redressal techniques, and monitor share of households paying water person costs.
At current, the info assortment is being achieved by the native water works division officers of every state. However, the federal government intends to award the work to a specialised company beginning subsequent 12 months. It has sought expression of curiosity (EOI) from companies who’ve carried out such large-scale floor surveys earlier than. The deadline for sending functions is December 31.
Ranking System For Villages
With this, the ministry can also be trying to strengthen its present grading system for all villages lined by the Har Ghar Jal scheme. The thought is to encourage a wholesome competitors amongst states to finish the work on time. Starting October, it has been offering month-to-month rating of villages, district and states on the standard of labor and achievement of goal. Each district and state is checked on the idea of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with geo-tagged documentation. The subsequent rankings have been made public to apprise residents about their village and state on JJM implementation and other people can work to enhance their standing within the rankings.
The specialised company can be required to have interaction with Gram Panchayats and native our bodies to solicit their suggestions for bettering the programme additional. A key agenda can also be to hunt suggestions for any course-correction for enchancment in performance of family faucet water connections.
The authorities led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi had dedicated to offering potable faucet water provide of minimal 55 litres per capita per day (lpcd) to each rural family by 2024. Of the overall 19.3 crore households, as many as 10.5 crore (54.8 per cent) have already been supplied with tap-water connections.
Till date, Goa has emerged as the one state with 100 per cent faucet water connections for all its rural households, together with three Union Territories — Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Puducherry, Dadar & Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Three different states — Telangana, Gujarat and Haryana — have additionally declared to have fulfilled their targets, however are but to be licensed. Punjab (99.9 per cent), Himachal Pradesh (96 per cent), Bihar (95 per cent) and Manipur (74 per cent) are subsequent in line.
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