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about water supply
Posted Date: 10 Dec 2007 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: General
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Posted By: vijay Member Level: Gold
Rating:  Points: 4
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Building sustainability in water and sanitation
100% coverage, involvement of all families in the village habitation and raising a corpus fund with Rs.1,000 from each family on average, are non-negotiable conditions in Gram Vikas' approach. Adult men and women are motivated to come together at the start of the intervention as the village general body, and they elect a representative executive committee with equal number of men and women. The amount collected towards the corpus fund is placed in a fixed deposit with the President, Secretary and Treasurer of the elected committee as signatories. The interest from the corpus fund is reserved for extending support for building toilets and bathrooms to new families in the village in the future.
Financing water supply and sanitation
The support provided by Gram Vikas for sanitation is Rs. 2,500 to Rs. 3,500 per family, of a total cost of Rs. 7,500. Each family contributes the balance amount in the form of labour and materials. In case of very poor villages efforts are made by Gram Vikas and the community to obtain some additional funds from government schemes or local area development funds from Members of Parliament, Members of Legislative Assembly.
Consistent efforts have been made to link this intervention with government rural drinking water supply schemes including Sector Reform Programme in Ganjam district and the Swajaldhara promoted by the Ministry for Rural Development, Government of India. Being one of our core interventions, this is an opportunity to demonstrate effective ways of utilising government resources. Last year Rs. 19 million was leveraged for drinking water supply from Swajaldhara and RSVY. In addition to that Rs. 8 million was leveraged for Sanitation infrastructure from MLA and TSC funds.
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