Jal Jeevan Mission team at IIMB launches Policy Dialogues on 17th Feb 2023
3 min read08 FEBRUARY, 2023: The Jal Jeevan Mission team at IIM Bangalore is happy to host a sequence of Policy Dialogues involving coverage practitioners, researchers, non-profit organisations and different stakeholders to collectively perceive and handle key coverage points. The first Policy Dialogue on this sequence will probably be held on 17th February 2023, the theme of which is ‘Community engagement in native administration and possession of rural ingesting water provide system’. The session from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, on 17th February, will probably be livestreamed right here: https://youtube.com/stay/tBSQSSIoIRI?function=share
The Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), launched in 2019 by the Government of India, goals to supply sustainable, reasonably priced, ample and dependable ingesting water provide to each rural family, contributing considerably to improved dwelling requirements of rural communities. The provision of piped water provide via ‘practical family faucet connections’ (FHTC), and potable and protected ingesting water to all rural households by 2024, have been its key goals. The JJM has now achieved greater than thrice of its prior protection of households (16.72% in 2019, which elevated to 55.58% by the top of 2022) with practical faucet water connections. The distinct function of JJM has been the utility method of service supply – practical faucet, supply sustainability, ample high quality water, and area people administration of operations and upkeep of the system together with required capability constructing. Being a community-managed decentralized program, the operations and upkeep of the village water provide and associated infrastructure is deemed to instil a way of neighborhood possession that’s important for sustainability of the water provide system.
Sustainable water provide and water useful resource administration depends on neighborhood in addition to stakeholders’ engagement from an early stage of implementation. Information, involvement and empowerment are the three pillars for maximizing neighborhood participation.
The following points/subjects are recognized because the essential focus areas of the Policy Dialogue to recommend measures for higher neighborhood involvement:
- Effective consciousness constructing and coaching amongst stakeholders
- Quality, Quantity, and Reliability of rural ingesting water provide
- Quality infrastructure growth
- Measuring water consumption at family degree for honest distribution
The Policy Dialogue can have particular person shows in addition to panel discussions. Policy practitioners, researchers, and others who’ve contributed concepts to the profitable implementation of ingesting water provide will probably be invited as panellists.
During the Dialogue, the JJM Chair Professor at IIMB, Prof. Gopal Naik, will introduce the significance of the subject and average the session. Each panellist will share their opening remarks. The invited researchers/practitioners will current their analysis findings/expertise of fixing drawback related to neighborhood engagement in native administration of rural ingesting water provide system. The subject will probably be opened for questions/options/feedback from the contributors after the preliminary shows by all of the panellists. Panellists will then reply to any questions and summarise their observations. The Chair Professor will summarise proceedings highlighting the coverage implications, which will probably be shared with the Government of India/State Governments.
The Policy Dialogue will probably be performed just about and the becoming a member of particulars for a similar will probably be shared with the chosen contributors.
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