Empowering the rural
community, particularly the women, and enabling them
to participate in the planning, implementation and
operation of water management programmes.
2
Redefining the role of
government agencies from providers to facilitators
3
Enabling project village
communities to have at least 40 litres per capita
per day of safe drinking water
4
Establishment of water
harvesting structures and revival of traditional
drinking water sources
5
Partial capital cost sharing
and complete responsibility of operation and
maintenance for the community involved
Fundamental reform principles of this
project
include:
Demand-driven and
community participation approach;
Planning,
implementation, operation, maintenance and management of
all drinking water schemes by panchayats / communities;
Partial capital cost
sharing by the communities upfront in cash and 100 per
cent responsibility of operation and maintenance by the
users;
Adoption of
conservation measures through rainwater harvesting and
groundwater recharge systems for sustained drinking water
supply;
Shifting the role of
the government from direct service delivery to that of
facilitation, planning, policy formulation, monitoring and
evaluation and partial financial support.
