The state government has delegated responsibility for the management and maintenance of village water delivery systems to gram panchayats. It has issued a GO instructing gram panchayats to maintain the intra-village water supply infrastructure from the overhead service reservoir (OHSR) to the household connection.

The government has also charged gram panchayats with activities such as OHSR chlorination and cleaning, new tap connection issuance, and pipeline repair. Estimates for maintenance work undertaken by gram panchayats will be provided by the Mandal intra-village AEE and AE of Mission Bhagirtha, and the Panchayats will carry them out under the supervision of intra-village AEEs or AEs.

The expense will be funded by the Central Finance Commission, the State Finance Commission, or the respective panchayats. According to the ordinance, gram panchayats shall be the custodians of all water supply assets and are responsible for maintaining all asset registries and network maps. Any miscreant activity that causes damage to Mission Bhagiratha's infrastructure will be penalized by the gram panchayat under the policy.

Gramme panchayats shall make the required efforts to provide water delivery to all households clean OHSRs and service reservoirs once every ten days - on the first, eleventh, and twenty-first of each month. The Engineer-in-Chief of Mission Bhagiratha would coordinate the delivery of drinking water with the Commissioner or director of panchayati Raj and Rural Development.

According to the 15th Finance Commission guidelines, grants can be used to provide drinking water services such as augmentation of existing water sources, rainwater harvesting structures, providing drinking water to institutions such as schools and anganvadis, and operating and maintaining intra-village supply systems.

The water supply system in the villages was delegated to the gram panchayats after it was discovered that in many areas, the intra-village water supply was not adequately maintained, and water was not reaching the home level.
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SIBY JEYYA

03/02/2024 09:27 AM