The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
While rural Uttarakhand had been declared as Open Defecation Free (ODF) in June 2017, a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) that was tabled in the Uttarakhand assembly stated that the declaration of the state as ODF was “incorrect”. The CAG report for the year 2016-2017, …
The guidelines on Swajal provide details of the scheme, implementation arrangements, financing provisions and roles and responsbilities of various stakeholders involved in its implementation. The guidelines have to be read in conjunction with National Rural Drinking water Programme issued by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. The guidelines are …
The Government of India launched the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) in April 2009 by modifying the Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (ARWSP) and subsuming earlier sub-mission/schemes. A performance audit of the NRDWP was conducted to assess how far the objectives of the Programme were achieved. The performance audit …
India has made significant progress in providing its citizens access to clean water, but is still among the top countries where the highest percentage of population does not have this facility, says a report. The report released to mark World Water Day tomorrow states that Uganda, Niger, Mozambique, India and …
This paper explores the benefits of a coordinated approach to land and water governance in efforts to address the global food security challenge and the need to tackle gender inequality in access to and control over land and water. The scarcity of arable land and freshwater is at the centre …
About 76 percent of rural habitations in India have achieved a fully covered (FC) status, under the National Rural Drinking Water Program, with basic minimum service level of 40 liters per capita daily (lpcd), but this coverage is primarily through hand-pumps and does not necessarily translate into sustainable and good …
This Report of the Committee deals with the action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in the Second Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject ‘Evaluation of Rural Drinking Water Programmes' pertaining to the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
BHUBANESWAR: With 285 gram panchayat (GP) headquarters of the State out of reach of pipe water supply scheme, the Government has directed the Rural Development Department to ensure that these panchayats are provided safe drinking water under the solar energy-based dual pump scheme. As many as 68 panchayat headquarters of …
Chief minister Vasundhara Raje, during her meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, pushed hard for special assistance from the Centre to deal with the severe drinking water crisis in the state. Talking about the overall development of the state and the drinking water crisis, Raje requested for a …
The cut in outlay for the Centrally sponsored National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) has put the brakes on the setting up of a state referral water quality testing laboratory in Uttarakhand. The laboratory was to be set up in the capital city by the Jal Sansthan. However, the cut …
With an aim to provide clean drinking water to students in rural areas, the state government has decided to include primary and junior high schools under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP). The government has asked all Basic Education Officers (BEOs) to provide a list of such schools that …
The State Government has approved Rs1.83 crore for implementing tap water projects in four villages of Bilaspur district under National Rural Drinking Water Programme. The approval had been provided for the action plan under financial year 2014-15. Notably, Chhattisgarh has been ranked first in the country for providing domestic water …
The Rajasthan government has failed to utilize even the allocated money in the financial year 2014-15 under National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) even as it wants the Centre to grant more funds to deal with drinking water crisis. In reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on Monday , …
The senior officers like Chief Engineer and General Managers should attend the camps of Jal Sansthan at block levels to ensure that a financial clearance for the drinking water projects is expedited. The Education, Potable Water, Sanitation and Student Welfare Minister Mantri Prasad Naithani said this while addressing a review …
Chhattisgarh has been ranked first in the country for providing domestic water connection in 2014-15 under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP). This is the State’s second major achievement after bagging first position in the country for installing solar pumps. Chief Minister Raman Singh and Public Health Engineering Department …
The National Level Monitoring team of the Ministry of Rural Development has said in its recent survey report that more than 75 per cent of the Piped Water Supply schemes are non-functional in 4 per cent of the villages that it visited in Anantnag, Doda, Kathua and Leh districts. The …
Thousands of villages in the state still lack proper drinking water facility while one-third of them are only partially covered with adequate and safe drinking water. Responding to a question in the Rajya Sabha, minister of state for drinking water and sanitation, Upendra Kushwaha, admitted that Rajasthan has a lot …
Highly ambitious water grid project on Ganga and Son rivers has received the much needed fillip since the Center had green signaled it about a month ago. The expert committee from IIT-Rurkee has submitted its report and now the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DWSD) is on the verge …
The Union Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) has allocated Rs 477.91 crore to the state Flood Control and Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) for the Annual Action Plan (AAP). Meanwhile, under Water Quality Special Focus Fund Project (subject to approval …
