Providing Safe Drinking Water under Jal Jeevan Mission:

Vision:-Every rural household has drinking water supply in adequate quantity of prescribed quality on regular and long-term basis at affordable service delivery charges leading to improvement in living standards of rural communities

Objectives of JJM:-

• To provide FHTC to every rural household
• To prioritize provision of FHTCs in quality affected areas, villages in drought prone and desert areas, Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) villages, etc.
• To provide functional tap connection to Schools, Anganwadi centres, GP buildings, Health centres, wellness centres and community buildings
• To monitor functionality of tap connections
• To promote and ensure voluntary ownership among local community by way of contribution in cash, kind and/ or labour and voluntary labour (shramdaan)
• To assist in ensuring sustainability of water supply system, i.e. water source, water supply infrastructure, and funds for regular O&M
• To empower and develop human resource in the sector such that the demands of construction, plumbing, electrical, water quality management, water treatment, catchment protection, O&M, etc. are taken care of in short and long term.
• To bring awareness on various aspects and significance of safe drinking water and involvement of stakeholders in manner that make water everyone's business

Providing Safe Sanitation and Hygiene Environment under Swachh Bharat Mission - Grameen:-

Objectives of SBM-G:-

1. The key objective of SBM(G) is to sustain the ODF status of villages and to improve the levels of cleanliness in rural areas through solid and liquid waste management activities, making villages ODF Plus. An ODF Plus village is defined as a village which sustains its Open Defecation Free (ODF) status, ensures solid and liquid waste management and is visually clean.
2. ODF-Sustainability: That all households in a village, as well as the Primary Schools, Panchayat Ghar and Anganwadi Centre, have access to a toilet and that continued behaviour change communication is ensured in the village.
3. Solid Waste Management: Effective management of solid waste by at least 80% of households and all public places including the management of bio-degradable waste from cattle and agricultural activities by individual and community compost pits, and of plastic waste by ensuring an adequate segregation and collection system.
4. Liquid Waste Management: Effective management of liquid waste by at least 80% of households and all public places including the management of greywater generated from kitchen use and bathing, and storm water, by channels and/or individual and community soak pits, and of any black water due to overflow from septic tanks.
5. Visual cleanliness: A village will be classified as visually clean if 80% of households and all public places are observed to have minimal litter and minimal stagnant water, and that there is no accumulation of plastic waste in the form of a dump in the village.

Providing Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Environment during Emergency:-

• Providing Safe Drinking Water pouches through Mobile Water Treatment Plant
• Disinfection of Drinking Water Sources
• Installation and repairing of Hand Tube Well
• Construction of temporary Sanitary Toilets & Urinals
• IEC campaign for Do's and Don'ts relating to drinking water and hygienic environment

Water Quality Monitoring:-

• Testing of water quality for Chemical, Bacteriological & Physical contamination at District level Laboratory, Mobile Laboratory and Field Test Kit