Water and Sanitation District : Kanker

Water and Sanitation Water & sanitation have a direct effects on the health & thus in quality of life.

Basic Statistics (Kanker) ParticularCoverageSource Water Total inhabited villages1068Census 2001 Total villages with safe drinking water1007 Household with access to safe drinking water (%)57 Using piped drinking water - Rural (%)2.6DLHS Sanitation (Household with) Access to toilet – Total (%)15.6DLHS Access to toilet - Rural (%)13.2 Household with toilet against base line (%)33.5PHE, Kanker

Present study Covers The issues covered : 1- Goals of the national programmes 2- Status of the district in terms of coverage 3- Utilisation under flagship programme 4- Key Concerns Findings based on information from PHE, Kanker

1- Drinking Water

National Goal: “National Rural Drinking Water Programme NRDWP” To provide every rural person with adequate water for drinking, cooking and other domestic basic needs on a sustainable basis. New shift: fully covered habitation means - every house hold in the habitation has been fully covered with potable water in sufficient quantity.

Standard Norms Rural Water Supply Schemes, potable drinking water Norms:- 40 litres per capita per day (lpcd) for humans to meet the following: PurposeQuantity (LPCD) Drinking3 Cooking5 Bathing15 Washing utensils & house7 Ablution10 Source: ddws.nic.in  In addition, provision should be allowed at 30 lpcd for animals  In case of hand pump or stand post is estimated for every 250 persons

Prevailing schemes: SchemeParticularsForTotal schemes/ coverage NalJal Scheme (PWSS)- Piped Water Supply Scheme >2000 population of scheme 48 ARWSPTube well (hand pump) For a population of hand pumps Spot Source Scheme- Tube well based – spot water supply Population >

Coverage 2003 Source: Habitation survey from, ddws.nic.in Koilibeda, Antagarh and Durgkondal had max. PC (Partially Covered), NC (Not Covered) habitations PC- Partially covered NC- Not Covered FC - Fully Covered

Trend- habitation coverage Source: PHE Dept., Kanker  Good Coverage - all habitation under FC as on March, 2009  Need of strengthening habitation coverage updating mechanism

Primary Source of drinking water- Rural Villages (in nos.) BlockHand pumpPiped WaterTotal Villages Kanker Narharpur Charama93497 Bhanupratappur Durg Kondal Antagarh Koilibeda  In 97 % of villages main source of drinking water is hand pump  Need of functional, low maintenance soak pit near hand pump

Coverage – Hand pump’s status BlockVillages Covered Establish ed Function al Non- functiona l/ repairs required Hand pump technicia ns Kanker Narharpur Charama Bhanupratappur Durg Kondal Antagarh Koilibeda  A total of 965 new hand pumps are to be installed in

Coverage – Mechanism Review for slip back Coverage by tube well/ hand pump  Till now the focus had been on coverage of PC & NC

Water - Quality  Iron affected habitations spread is across all the blocks.  Need of study for limited success of Iron Removal Plant  Possibility of alternative of roof top water harvesting

Quality: Consumption of water with excess iron causes constipation accompanied by other physiological disorders. Control measures include providing:  Alternate sources free from iron or  or treating iron contaminated water Permissible Limit: < 1 ppm Source: ddws.nic.in

Organogram (PHE Department), Kanker Executive Engineer Kanker Sub division A En- Bahnu. (Bhanup., Durgkondal) A En- Antagarh (Antagarh, Koilibeda) Hand pump mechanic for each hand pump District A En- Kanker (Kanker, Narharpur, Charama) Japad Panchayat/ Panchayat At the sub div. – post of AEn, Kanker & Sub Engineer (3), Antagarh is vacant

Institutions covered under water supply  Need of updating school coverage (with education dept.)  Need to update coverage of panchayat bhawan, religious places

Urban water supply SNNameExisting system 1Kanker Source: underground water Piped water supply, through Elevated Service Reservoir Managed by: Urban local body 2Charama 3Bhanupratappur 4Antagarh 5Pakhanjor

Utilization under ARWSP

Utilisation - ARWSP Missed an opportunity to utilize available 192 lakhs in last 3 years

Key Concerns 1.Ensuring adequate water for each household on sustainable basis  Source sustainability in consultation with other department 2.Quality affected habitation gets an alternative water supply system  (1- Iron Removal Plant, / 2- Spot source/ PWSS/ 3-Gravel tube well)  Document & use of previous learning in dealing with excess iron affected regions  Piloting water harvesting as an alternative 3.Grater community involvement in plan, implementation & O&M  Documentation of the beast practices/ failures (if any)  Facilitation to the Panchayat/ community in O & M (tariff collection, soak pits etc.)  Mechanism of community feedback/ response on adequacy of water  Panchayat’s involvement in effective quality test/ action 4.Updated c overage of institutions for water supply (schools, Panchayat, religious place, local haats etc.)

2- Sanitation

CHHATTISGARH MDG : 7 Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation

2- Schemes for sanitation : 1. Total Sanitation Camaign 2. Support for the APL from the PR & RD 3. SSHE – School, Aaganwadi District has received 7 Nirmal Gram Panchayat Awards so far

What TSC aims at  Improved sanitation behaviours and quality of life  Access and use of toilets to all by  Coverage of schools by March 2008  Coverage of Anganwadis by March 2009  Community managed environmental sanitation system

Household Coverage - District  A gap of 74,132 household toilet is to be covered by  Need of a rapid study for the toilet use rate  Strong IEC initiatives to generate demands

 Each school is to covered with the toilet facility  Latest update of the school coverage is required. School Coverage - District

Aaganwadi Toilet Coverage - District  Each AWC is to be covered with the toilet facility  Latest update of the AWC is still required.

Fund Utilization  Huge variation in utilization pattern (over the years).  Opportunity of utilizing 2.9 crores misses in

Component wise – Expenditure pattern

Issues of concerns (Recap) 1-Strong IEC to generate demand (even after subsidy demand is low) 2- Study of the use pattern of the existing toilets 3- Strengthening the supply chain mechanism 4- Ensuring trained mason’s availability 5- Status update of toilet coverage in:  Schools(PS, UPS, HS, Higher Sec.)/ anganwadi  Panchayat/village-wise, household coverage  Public place (Panchayat Bhawan’s etc) 6- Motivation for bathroom (personal hygiene of women) 7 - Identifying issues of coordiantion with other dept.

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