Water & Sanitation
Project Name: National Jal Jivan Mission – Har Ghar Nalse Jal
Project Duration:
- August 2021 – July 2023.
Geographical Area of Activities:
- 60 villages across 54 Gram Panchayats (GP) in Shirur Block, Pune District
Source of Funding:
- Department of Water & Sanitation, Government of Maharashtra
Project Objective:
- To provide safe and secure drinking water to 60 villages in Shirur Block, Pune District.
Key Activities:
- Conduct of field activities to ensure a reliable and safe drinking water supply.
- Built local capacity to strengthen water sources.
- Ensured an uninterrupted supply of safe drinking water at Anganwadis and schools.
- Promoted cost-effective operation and maintenance of water supply systems.
- Encouraged timely water tax contributions to increase accountability and ownership.
Major Outcomes and Impact:
- Capacity building of 800 SHG women and Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI) members from 23 villages on topics such as rainwater harvesting, water quality, waterborne diseases, water conservation, and sustainability.
- Trained 120 people in plumbing, electrical work, and bricklaying for cost-effective operation and maintenance of water supply systems.
Project Name: Jal Swarajya- II
Project Duration:
- 2015 – 2020
Geographical Area of Activities:
- 123 villages in Pune District
Source of Funding:
- Department of Water & Sanitation, Government of Maharashtra
Project Objective:
- To provide safe, secure, and sustainable drinking water in peri-urban, water-stressed, water-quality affected, and aquifer management villages.
- Strengthening of Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHSNCs).
Key Activities:
- Mobilized communities and developed village water plans in 70 priority villages across 11 blocks of Pune district.
- Provided training to various village stakeholders through social mobilization events.
- Assisted VHSNCs with record-keeping and monitoring of water supply and sanitation efforts at the village and block levels.
Major Outcomes and Impact:
- Provided safe and secure drinking water with strong community involvement and ownership in different village types (peri-urban, water-stressed, water-quality affected, and aquifer villages).
- Increased community participation, accountability, and ownership at the village level.
- Conducted baseline surveys and participatory rural appraisals that helped activate women’s gram sabhas and special gram sabhas.
- Built capacity in well owners for rainfall measurement and water monitoring.
Capacity building on observation of well owners in rainfall measurement and monitoring